Tatami

Tatami (2024) is a sports thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Iranian judoka Leila steps onto the world-championship mat with a real shot at gold — and then an order arrives from Tehran: fake an injury and pull out.

Losing means betraying her country in the eyes of the regime. Refusing means putting her family back home in danger. Between bouts, Leila and her coach Maryam are squeezed by phone calls, threats and blackmail, and every match turns less on judo than on how much a person will swallow to stay true to herself. Arienne Mandi and Zar Amir Ebrahimi carry the tension on raw nerve.

Shot hard, in cold black-and-white, almost in the real time of a single day. It was co-directed by Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv and Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi — a rare partnership that is itself a political statement. For viewers who like their sports stories to be about freedom. Stream Tatami (2024) online on iFILM.