Director: Faezeh Azizkhani
Cast: Farzaneh Gerayli, Hediyeh Tehrani
Rooz Mabada is a 2015 Iranian drama film directed by Faezeh Azizkhani, centering on a young woman studying filmmaking who must reconcile her craft with a family crisis after her mother begins experiencing vivid, recurring premonitions of her own death.
What is Rooz Mabada about?
A young film student is thrown into emotional turmoil when she discovers that her mother has been plagued by the same haunting dream — one in which the older woman sees herself dying. Convinced the visions are prophecy rather than anxiety, the mother begins settling her affairs: resolving old conflicts, reaching out to estranged loved ones, and quietly preparing to say goodbye. The daughter, caught between skepticism and fear, must choose how to respond — whether to dismiss the dreams or to stand beside her mother through this unsettling passage. The film unfolds in the intimate register of daily domestic life, where ordinary routines are shadowed by the weight of anticipated loss.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Faezeh Azizkhani, an Iranian filmmaker whose work engages closely with women's interior lives. Lead actress Farzaneh Gerayli brings a grounded, understated quality to the daughter's role, while Hediyeh Tehrani — one of Iran's most respected dramatic actors — anchors the film as the mother whose dreams set everything in motion.
Context & significance
Iranian cinema has long distinguished itself through intimate, character-driven dramas that treat grief, family obligation, and the passage of time with unusual seriousness. Rooz Mabada sits in this tradition, exploring the mother-daughter bond under the pressure of mortality — a theme that resonates deeply for diaspora audiences who often navigate distance from aging parents. The film offers no melodrama; instead it asks quiet, difficult questions about what we owe the people we love when they are frightened. For Persian-speaking viewers abroad, that emotional register is immediately legible.
Where & how to watch
Rooz Mabada is available on K-Time with original Persian audio. Watch on the web browser, your TV, or your phone — no extra download or VPN required, no geo-blocking anywhere in the world. Start a plan and cancel anytime.