Director: Mohammadreza Yekani
Cast: Rayeheh Teimouri, Mahan Torabi, Siamak Soltani, Amir Karmaloo, Farzaneh Mirshekarian
Locatione Badi is a 2024 Iranian family drama short film directed by Mohammadreza Yekani, running forty-nine minutes and exploring the collision between the private world of a working actor and the public eye that descends upon her home when it is chosen as a film set.
What is Locatione Badi about?
A production crew arrives to shoot at a woman's house, turning her familiar domestic space into a stage she never intended to share. As cameras and strangers fill the rooms, intimate details of her everyday existence begin to surface — not through dramatic confrontation, but through the accumulation of small moments, overheard conversations, and objects left in plain sight. The film traces how an ordinary home, once opened to outsiders with a professional agenda, slowly gives up the rhythms and contradictions its owner has kept to herself. The story unfolds quietly, letting the setting do much of the storytelling.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Mohammadreza Yekani and features Rayeheh Teimouri in the central role, supported by Mahan Torabi, Siamak Soltani, Amir Karmaloo, Farzaneh Mirshekarian, Farzad Fatemi, Amouri Safarloo, and Ali Minayi Manesh. The ensemble brings a naturalistic texture to a story that depends on quiet, credible interaction rather than heightened performance.
Context & significance
Short-form Iranian cinema has long served as a proving ground for directors willing to strip stories down to their essentials — a single location, a contained time frame, a handful of characters whose tensions emerge without explanation. Locatione Badi sits within this tradition, using a domestic space as both setting and subject. For diaspora viewers who grew up watching Iranian family dramas where the home carries enormous emotional and social weight, the premise resonates immediately. The act of letting strangers into one's house — and the involuntary self-exposure that follows — speaks to a broadly shared anxiety about privacy, identity, and the gap between how we appear to the world and how we actually live.
Where & how to watch
Locatione Badi is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio with subtitles. You can watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no geo-blocking, no VPN needed, cancel anytime.