Director: Alex Parkinson
Two leopard cubs, a patient crew, and years of waiting in Botswana's Okavango Delta: Living With Leopards (2024) is a wildlife documentary from director Alex Parkinson, streaming with Persian dubbing on K-Time.
What is Living With Leopards about?
The film tracks a pair of leopard cubs from their first wobbling steps out of the den through the harsh lessons of independence — hunting failures, sibling rivalry, and the slow realization that their mother will not always be there to protect them. Rather than narrate from a human perspective, the crew spent years camped near a single leopard family, letting the cubs' individual personalities emerge on camera: one bold and reckless, the other cautious and slow to trust its own instincts. The Delta itself becomes a character, its flooded grasslands and dry season shifts shaping every hunt and every close call the cubs survive or don't.
Cast & crew
Alex Parkinson directs and narrates the project's on-the-ground story; cinematographer and field naturalist Brad Bestelink, whose long-running work in the Okavango Delta gave the crew access most nature productions never get, anchors the footage. Their combined years living alongside this leopard family are what let the documentary follow individual cubs rather than a generic wildlife montage.
Context & significance
Nature documentaries travel easily across languages because the drama is visual first, and Living With Leopards leans into that: long unbroken sequences of stalking, missed kills, and quiet family moments that need little dialogue to land. For Persian-speaking households on K-Time, the Persian dub means the film plays as a genuine family watch rather than something read off subtitles line by line, which matters for a documentary built around patience and long silences as much as action.
Where & how to watch
Living With Leopards streams on K-Time with Persian-dubbed audio, part of a Farsi-first library built for the Iranian diaspora across phones, tablets, smart TVs, and browsers. Viewing requires a free K-Time account login; there is no VPN or region workaround needed, and the film can be started, paused, and resumed across devices without losing your place. The K-Time interface itself runs in Farsi, so browsing and playback stay in one language from search to the closing frame.