Director: Mohammad Ebrahim Azizi

Cast: Mohsen Kiaei, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Mohammad Bahrani, Pouria Rahimi Sam

Bazi Ra Bekosh is a 2025 Iranian drama film directed by Mohammad Ebrahim Azizi, rooted in a true story from the world of professional football. Running 90 minutes, it follows a veteran player whose brother dies under circumstances that refuse to stay buried, pulling him into a world where sport and secrecy collide.

What is Bazi Ra Bekosh about?

Musa has given his life to football — the pitch, the grind, the quiet pride of a career measured in decades. When his younger brother is killed in what is reported as a sports accident, the official version settles too quickly, and the family is left with a grief that has no clean edges. Musa begins retracing the days before the death, talking to people who knew his brother, asking questions no one seems comfortable answering. What he surfaces are facts that contradict the account he was handed — small contradictions at first, then larger ones. The film keeps its cards close, unspooling each discovery at the pace of a man who still loves the game but can no longer trust the world around it.

Cast & crew

Mohammad Ebrahim Azizi directs with material drawn from documented events, lending the film the weight of testimony. Mohsen Kiaei anchors the story as Musa, bringing a weathered restraint to a man who processes everything through the discipline of an athlete. Hoda Zeinolabedin, Mohammad Bahrani, and Pouria Rahimi Sam round out the ensemble, each adding texture to the web of relationships surrounding the death.

Context & significance

Iranian social dramas that draw from real events carry a particular charge for diaspora audiences: they are dispatches from a world the viewer left behind, or a world they know through family still living there. Football in Iran is not merely sport — it is one of the few mass public spaces where emotion is permitted openly, which makes it a fertile ground for stories about corruption, loyalty, and silence. Bazi Ra Bekosh enters that tradition with the added gravity of a true story, asking what happens when an institution that defines a man's identity turns out to have darker corners than he imagined. For Persian-speaking viewers abroad, the film offers both familiarity and distance — a way to sit with the contradictions of the homeland through a story grounded in fact.

Where & how to watch

Bazi Ra Bekosh is available on K-Time in original Persian audio. Stream it on your TV, phone, or browser — no geo-blocking, no VPN required. Start a subscription and cancel anytime.