Director: Mohammad Ebrahim Azizi
Cast: Mohsen Kiaei, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Mohammad Bahrani, Pouria Rahimi Sam
Bazi Ra Bokosh (Kill the Game) is a 2025 Iranian social-sports drama directed by Mohammad Ebrahim Azizi, running 90 minutes and based on true events. It follows a veteran footballer whose brother's death during a match sets off a search for answers that cuts deeper than the sport itself.
What is Bazi Ra Bokosh about?
Moses spent decades giving his life to football — training younger generations, living and breathing the game. When his brother collapses during a sports event and does not survive, the official explanation feels incomplete. Driven by grief and a gnawing sense that something is being hidden, Moses begins pulling at threads that the people around him would rather leave alone. Each discovery reshapes his understanding of the world he thought he knew, forcing him to confront uncomfortable truths about loyalty, silence, and the cost of speaking up inside an institution that protects its own.
Cast & crew
The film stars Mohsen Kiaei, one of Iranian cinema's most versatile dramatic actors, in the central role of Moses. Hoda Zeinolabedin, Mohammad Bahrani, and Pouria Rahimi Sam round out the principal cast, each bringing the grounded naturalism the script demands. Director Mohammad Ebrahim Azizi has shaped the ensemble into a tight, believable portrait of a sports community under pressure.
Context & significance
Iranian social dramas rooted in sports have a distinctive tradition — using the pitch or the locker room as a lens onto broader questions of justice and institutional silence. Bazi Ra Bokosh sits squarely in that lineage: it is less about football as spectacle and more about what happens when a beloved national pastime becomes the setting for something that cannot be ignored. For diaspora viewers who grew up watching Iranian league matches and carry complicated feelings about the sport's place in Iranian public life, this film speaks in a language that is immediately recognizable. It treats its true-story source material with care, avoiding sensationalism while still landing its emotional and ethical weight.
Where & how to watch
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