Director: Majid Barzegar
Cast: Navid Layeghi Moghadam, Marzieh Khoshtarash, Ali Bagheri
Fasle Baranhaye Mousemi is a 2018 Iranian drama film directed by Majid Barzegar, tracing one tumultuous summer in the life of a Tehran teenager as his family fractures around him. Quiet and observational in tone, it belongs to the tradition of Iranian social cinema that places young protagonists at the center of adult crises.
What is Fasle Baranhaye Mousemi about?
Sixteen-year-old Sina grows up in the middle-class neighborhoods of contemporary Tehran, but his ordinary adolescence is abruptly disrupted when his parents move toward separation. The household tension he carries is already heavy enough, yet an external threat compounds it: a neighborhood tough has marked him and will not let go. Caught between a home that is dissolving and a street that offers no safety, Sina must find some way to hold himself together through an unsettled, monsoon-soaked season of change. The film follows his daily routines, friendships, and small rebellions as the pressure from every side quietly mounts.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Majid Barzegar, known for his restrained, realist approach to Iranian social drama. Navid Layeghi Moghadam carries the central role of Sina with an understated naturalism, while Marzieh Khoshtarash and Ali Bagheri fill out the fractured family portrait with grounded, unshowy performances.
Context & significance
Iranian coming-of-age cinema has long used the child or teenager as a lens onto larger social pressures — a tradition running from Abbas Kiarostami through to the contemporary generation. Fasle Baranhaye Mousemi fits squarely into this lineage, turning a Tehran divorce into a meditation on class, masculinity, and what adolescents absorb when adults fall apart. For diaspora viewers, the film offers a recognizable geography — Tehran streets, middle-class apartments, the texture of everyday urban Iranian life — alongside the universal weight of a family in crisis. It speaks plainly, without melodrama, in a register that many Persian-speaking viewers raised between two worlds will find both familiar and moving.
Where & how to watch
Fasle Baranhaye Mousemi is available on K-Time with original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Subscription is flexible; cancel anytime.