Director: Colson Baker, Mod Sun
Cast: Colson Baker, Mod Sun, Becky G
Mourning is an Iranian drama film marking the feature debut of director Morteza Farshbaf, a protégé of the legendary Abbas Kiarostami. Quiet, observational, and rooted in everyday Iranian life, it signals the arrival of a filmmaker shaped by one of world cinema's great masters.
What is Mourning about?
A family gathers after the death of a loved one, and what follows is not dramatic confrontation but a slow accumulation of small moments — glances held too long, words left unsaid, ordinary routines that grief quietly distorts. Farshbaf keeps the camera close and patient, trusting the viewer to read the silences between characters. The film unfolds in a single intimate setting, where the weight of loss presses against daily life without ever tipping into melodrama. Relationships are tested in ways that feel entirely real, and the mood stays searching and contemplative from first frame to last.
Cast & crew
Mourning is the feature debut of Morteza Farshbaf, whose training under Abbas Kiarostami is evident in every considered frame. Kiarostami himself is one of Iranian cinema's defining voices, and Farshbaf carries that tradition forward with restraint and precision. The ensemble cast brings an unaffected naturalism to the family dynamics at the film's center.
Context & significance
For diaspora viewers, Mourning offers something rare: an Iranian film made outside the noise of commercial production, in the lineage of the slow, humanist cinema that put Iran on the world film map. Abbas Kiarostami's influence — patient observation, non-professional textures, the poetry of the everyday — runs through the work of every filmmaker he mentored, and Farshbaf is among the most quietly assured of that generation. Watching this film abroad, far from the family structures it depicts, can sharpen its emotional resonance in unexpected ways. The grief and the family rituals it portrays will feel immediate to Iranian-diaspora viewers who know what it means to lose someone at a distance.
Where & how to watch
Mourning is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing. Stream it on the web browser, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start watching anytime and cancel anytime.