Directed by Narges Abyar, Nafas is a 2016 Iranian feature that observes a stretch of national upheaval from the height of a child's imagination. It runs 112 minutes and carries three catalogue labels at once — drama, family and fantasy.
What is Nafas about?
At the centre is Bahar, a young girl growing up in a household she shares with her father, Ghafour, and her grandmother. Books, folk tales and half-heard adult conversation feed a private inner world, and the picture lets that world spill onto the screen: daydreams and storybook images sit beside chores, school routines and small domestic negotiations. The period covered begins in the 1970s and carries on past that decade, so the household moves through years in which the country around it changes considerably. The telling stays at the level of Bahar's understanding, and much of what happens outside the walls of the house reaches the audience only as she registers it — through rumour, radio, absences and the shifting moods of the grown-ups nearby.
About the cast
Three names are credited among the cast: Mehran Ahmadi, Pantea Panahiha and Siamak Safari. K-Time lists them without role attribution, and this page follows the same practice rather than guessing who appears as whom. Because the point of view belongs to a child, the adults are figures observed from below — busy, preoccupied, only partly explained — and the performances work in that register.
Context & significance
The three genre labels together signal how the picture is built. Drama and family cover the household layer: a father, a grandmother, children, a modest home and the business of getting through a week. Fantasy covers what Bahar adds to that — the reading and imagining the film stages rather than merely mentions. The timeframe matters as well: a story opening in the 1970s and continuing afterwards crosses an eventful stretch of modern Iranian history, and that period is treated as setting rather than as argument. For viewers watching from the diaspora, that ground-level texture is often the reason to seek such a title out.
Watching Nafas on K-Time
Nafas streams on K-Time for signed-in members. Create or log into a free K-Time account and the film plays from its title page on phone, browser, smart TV and the Android TV app. This page is readable without logging in. K-Time is built for Persian-speaking audiences living outside Iran, with a Farsi interface throughout.