What would you do if you were convinced your days were numbered? Rooz Mabada, Faezeh Azizkhani's 2015 drama, poses that question through a mother who trusts her recurring dreams more than any reassurance her family can offer.
What is Rooz Mabada about?
A young film student is absorbed in her own projects when she senses something has shifted at home. Her mother has been waking night after night from the same dream, and in it her death is near. Rather than brush the visions aside, the older woman treats them as a deadline: she starts settling unfinished business, mending old relationships, and pursuing wishes she had postponed for years. The daughter, camera rarely out of reach, is drawn into this strange countdown, and the line between filming her mother's story and living inside it slowly blurs.
About the cast
Hediyeh Tehrani, one of the defining faces of Iranian cinema since the late 1990s and known for composed, interior performances, anchors the film, with Farzaneh Gerayli playing opposite her. The mother-daughter relationship carries most of the drama, built on long conversations and small domestic gestures rather than plot mechanics.
Context & significance
Rooz Mabada marked writer-director Faezeh Azizkhani's move into feature filmmaking after years of screenwriting and short-form work, and it belongs to a familiar strand of self-reflexive Iranian drama: a filmmaker character inside the story mirrors the one behind the camera, while ordinary Tehran interiors do the scenographic work. The Persian title refers to the proverbial rainy day people save things for, and the script plays on that double sense of postponement and finality — what we set aside for a day we hope never comes, and what happens when someone decides that day has arrived.
Watching Rooz Mabada on K-Time
Rooz Mabada streams on K-Time in its original Persian. Reading this page is open to everyone, but pressing play asks for a free K-Time account login. The service is built for Persian-speaking audiences around the world, with a Farsi-friendly interface on TV, web, and mobile.