Director: Yashar Ebrahimi
Cast: Ali Ehsani, Mahla Badri, Mahtab Jamali, Masoud Yazdani
Baraye Man Bazi Kon is a 2021 Iranian short drama film directed by Yashar Ebrahimi, running fifteen minutes and centering on a mother's quiet, determined love for her daughter — a tender study of family devotion set against the everyday texture of Iranian life.
What is Baraye Man Bazi Kon about?
A mother named Gol Shirin watches other children playing freely and feels a pull in her chest — her own daughter stands apart, unable to join in. Unwilling to accept this distance, she sets out to change things, doing whatever she can to help her child experience the simple joy of play that other kids take for granted. The film unfolds with restraint, observing the small acts of love and sacrifice that define parenthood: the patience required, the quiet negotiations a parent makes, and the fierce hope that never quite loosens its grip. In fifteen minutes, Ebrahimi traces an emotional arc that larger films spend two hours trying to reach.
Cast & crew
Director Yashar Ebrahimi shapes this short with a careful eye for intimate domestic detail. The cast is led by Ali Ehsani alongside Mahla Badri, Mahtab Jamali, and Masoud Yazdani. Each performer brings understated warmth to their role, allowing the story's emotional weight to accumulate through gesture and glance rather than dramatic declaration.
Context & significance
Short films from Iran have long carried an outsized place in world cinema — compact in runtime yet expansive in feeling. Baraye Man Bazi Kon fits firmly within the tradition of Iranian family drama that centers women's interior lives and the labor of motherhood that often goes unseen. For diaspora audiences, such films offer a form of recognition: the particular way a Persian mother loves, protects, and pushes forward for her child reads as deeply familiar regardless of which city or country you now call home. The film asks nothing complicated of its viewer; it simply asks you to pay attention.
Where & how to watch
Baraye Man Bazi Kon is available now on K-Time, streamable on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking. Audio is original Persian. Start watching with a K-Time subscription and cancel anytime.