Director: Mahmood Karimi
Cast: Gohar Kheyrandish, Reza Kianian, Hasan Ma'juni, Behrooz Shoeibi, Siamak Safari
Bacheye Mardom is a 2025 Iranian comedy-drama-war film directed by Mahmood Karimi, following one orphaned young man's lifelong search for identity, belonging, and the mother he never knew, set against the sweeping backdrop of modern Iranian history.
What is Bacheye Mardom about?
Abolfazl has spent his childhood inside the walls of an orphanage, wondering who left him and why. As he comes of age, an urgent need to know where he came from pulls him out into the wider world. Along the road he forms unexpected bonds, falls into love, and faces devastating loss. War interrupts everything, forcing Abolfazl to confront questions that are no longer just personal. Each encounter reshapes what he understands about family and sacrifice, and by the time the smoke clears, the answer to his original question arrives in a form he could not have predicted.
Cast & crew
Director Mahmood Karimi helms a cast of veteran Iranian cinema names. Gohar Kheyrandish and Reza Kianian anchor the emotional core, while Hasan Ma'juni, Behrooz Shoeibi, and Siamak Safari round out the ensemble. Siavash Cheraghipour, Omid Roohani, and Zahra Davoudnejad each bring weight to supporting roles, giving the film a lived-in texture rarely found in commercial productions.
Context & significance
Iranian war-tinged family dramas occupy a distinct and honoured place in the national cinema — think of the orphan figure not as a cliché but as a recurring cultural archetype used to examine collective memory and national identity. Bacheye Mardom arrives in 2025 with a cast that diaspora audiences will recognise immediately, drawing on decades of shared television and cinema history. For Iranians living abroad, a film like this functions as a time capsule: the humour lands because it speaks in registers from home, the grief stings because it maps onto real generational wounds, and the war sequences carry the weight of lived family stories passed down across oceans.
Where & how to watch
Bacheye Mardom is available now on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no geo-blocking, no VPN required. Sign up and cancel anytime.