Director: Dawoud Bidel
Cast: Mohammadreza Alimardani, Barbod Babaiy, Samira Hassanpour, Nasim Adabi, Parisa Shaholian
Namoor is a 2022 Iranian drama film directed by Dawoud Bidel, running approximately 80 minutes. It centers on family estrangement, long-held grievances, and the fraught attempt at reconciliation between siblings separated by fifteen years of silence. A quiet, intimate work from contemporary Iranian cinema.
What is Namoor about?
Daoud is the eldest son in a fractured family — responsible, reluctant, and long accustomed to keeping the peace. When his younger brother Daniyal pushes him hard enough, Daoud finally agrees to make the trip north with his wife Samira and young daughter Aram to try to reconnect with his estranged sister Delaram, whom none of them have seen in fifteen years. The reunion does not go as hoped. Delaram refuses to open her door to them, and Daoud — bruised and ready to turn back — is stopped by Daniyal, who reveals something that forces everyone to confront the real reasons behind the rift. What unfolds is less a reconciliation than an excavation: old wounds, unspoken truths, and the weight of family loyalty tested against the passage of time.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Dawoud Bidel and features Mohammadreza Alimardani in the central role of Daoud alongside Barbod Babaiy as the insistent younger brother Daniyal. Samira Hassanpour, Nasim Adabi, Parisa Shaholian, Mohammadreza Abbasi, and Bahareh Kian Afshar round out a cast drawn from Iran's working dramatic talent.
Context & significance
Iranian cinema has long drawn strength from domestic dramas that turn on family obligation, silence, and the geographic pull of the north — the lush Caspian coast that appears again and again as a site of reckoning in Persian film. Namoor fits squarely within that tradition: intimate in scale, emotionally precise, and rooted in the specific social pressures of Iranian family life where a sibling rift can calcify over a decade and a half with nobody daring to name the cause. For diaspora viewers who carry their own complicated family distances — across borders, time zones, and decades — the film speaks directly to that experience of postponed conversations and return journeys that never quite unfold the way you planned.
Where & how to watch
Namoor is available on K-Time with original Persian audio and Persian subtitles. Watch on any device — web browser, TV, or phone — with no VPN required and no geo-blocking. Subscribe and cancel anytime.