Qazvin Province, with its villages, farmland and long-settled family networks, is the setting rather than a backdrop in Diyare Madari (Motherland), a 2026 Iranian family drama series directed by Hossein Tabrizi and produced through the Provinces Department.
What is Diyare Madari about?
At its centre is a family whose settled life is interrupted by a run of changes and crises that leave the old arrangements unworkable. Instead of treating that upheaval as an ending, the series takes it as the start of a new road: the family has to rebuild, and in doing so comes up against situations and people it would never have encountered otherwise. Much of the drama grows out of rural life in Qazvin, from the rhythms of agricultural work to the obligations that bind relatives and neighbours, and the region's local resources and traditions are woven into the plot rather than shown as scenery. Episodes run about forty-five minutes, which gives each chapter room for both a family confrontation and the slower business of adjusting to a different kind of life.
About the cast
Ziba Borufeh, Siavosh Tahmoures, Amir Kazemi, Atabak Naderi, Negin Motazedi and Setareh Hosseini make up the principal cast. The ensemble spans generations, which suits a story about a family renegotiating its roles after a crisis, and the writing gives the older and younger members distinct responses to the same pressures. Hossein Tabrizi directs.
Context & significance
Diyare Madari belongs to a long-running strand of Iranian television: the provincial family series, produced outside the capital and set deliberately in a specific region so that its dialect, landscape and economy shape the story. Programmes made through the Provinces Department are intended partly to put regions like Qazvin on screen on their own terms, and this series does that through a plot about recovery and resettlement rather than through travelogue. For diaspora viewers the appeal is twofold: a family drama in the familiar Iranian mould, and a look at a part of the country that national productions rarely linger on.
Watching Diyare Madari on Ktime
Diyare Madari streams on K-Time in its original Persian. A K-Time account login is required to watch; browsing this page costs nothing and needs no account. The service is built for Persian speakers abroad, with a Farsi interface, episode lists and series pages designed so that following a weekly drama from outside Iran is straightforward.