Two families, one couch, and the domestic disaster you never saw coming.
The movie Kanapeh tells the story of the lives of two families who want to get together, but in the end, a couch causes problems in their lives.
Direction
Ayyari's 40+ years of Iranian cinema expertise in every frame.
Writing
A couch as character—deceptively simple, devastatingly effective.
Acting
Pourarab and Hamidian navigate social climbing with painful precision.
Director
Kianush Ayyari
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ayyari's films often explore pre-revolutionary Iranian middle-class anxieties, using domestic spaces as microcosms of societal tension.
The 'kanapeh' (couch) becomes a Chekhovian object—everyone projects their aspirations onto it, nobody actually sits comfortably.
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