Leila's Brothers is a 2022 Persian-language drama directed by Saeed Roustayi, set inside one Tehran household where a single daughter carries the practical weight of the family.
What is Baradaran E Liyla about?
Leila keeps the household's accounts in her head — rent, medicine, the daily needs of her ageing parents — and works a job on top of it. Her brothers move between low-paid shifts, old debts and plans that never quite close. When an opening appears that would let the family pool everything it has and put the total behind a plan for steadier ground, Leila sets the arithmetic on the table and asks each brother for his share. Their father intends that same money for something tied to his standing among relatives rather than to the household's day-to-day survival. What follows is one long negotiation, held in kitchens, stairwells, parked cars and crowded family gatherings.
About the cast
Taraneh Alidoosti holds the centre of the film with a performance built on restraint and timing. Navid Mohammadzadeh brings a rawer, more combustible energy to the household's arguments, and Saeed Poursamimi completes the central trio; the film gives all three long, unbroken stretches of negotiation to play, and each makes something different of them.
Context & significance
The film is a 2022 release from Roustayi, a director whose name has become attached to dense, argument-driven ensemble drama, and here that style is applied to the finances of a single household. The running time is 165 minutes, which places it among the longer Iranian dramas of its decade, and it carries a 7.9 average user rating on IMDb. The story unfolds in Tehran under visible economic pressure, and those conditions serve as the practical backdrop to the family's choices rather than as a subject the script argues about.
Watching Baradaran E Liyla on K-Time
Leila's Brothers streams on K-Time for viewers across the Iranian diaspora. Reading this page is open to anyone; starting playback requires signing in with a free K-Time account. The film plays in its original Persian audio, and the K-Time interface is available in Farsi. K-Time runs in the browser, on Android phones and on Android TV, so a household can start on one screen and continue on another.