Nafas, circulated internationally as Breath, is a 2016 Iranian feature directed by Narges Abyar. It follows a girl named Bahar, and it reports her household from roughly her height: what she notices, what she misunderstands, and what she rebuilds afterwards as invention.
What is Nafas about?
Bahar shares a home with her father, Ghafour, and her grandmother, in an Iran of the 1970s. The rhythm of that house is domestic and unhurried, and the picture stays inside it rather than stepping out to explain the period. Alongside the ordinary hours runs a second register: Bahar's own surreal territory, assembled out of daydreams and the things a child decides must be true. The film crosses between the two without announcing the border, so an afternoon in the family's rooms can slide into a sequence that follows the rules of a fantasy. Catalogued as drama, family and fantasy, it holds all three at once.
About the cast
The ensemble brings together Shabnam Moghadami, Gelare Abbasi, Mehran Ahmadi, Jamshid Hashempour, Sareh Nour Mousavi and Pantea Panahiha, a line-up that mixes long-established screen names with younger performers. The production credits them as listed here, and K-Time does not assign roles to individual actors on this page. Narges Abyar directs, and the picture is one of the titles most often attached to her name.
Context & significance
The story is set during the 1970s, a decade that Iranian cinema has returned to repeatedly, and the film treats it as lived background rather than as a subject to argue about. Period detail arrives through household objects, clothing and the texture of a shared home, not through commentary. That approach suits a narrator who is too young to sort events into history: the setting is simply the world as it was handed to her. The running time is one hundred and twelve minutes, which gives the fantasy passages room to develop at their own pace, and Abyar keeps the register consistent across both halves of the story.
Watching Nafas on Ktime
Nafas streams on K-Time, and this page is open to read without an account. Playback asks you to sign in with a free K-Time account first. The service is built for Persian-speaking viewers across the diaspora, with a Farsi interface, Farsi search and a catalogue organised the way Iranian audiences look for titles.