Director: Roghaye Tavakkoli
Cast: Sara Bahrami, Sajjad Esmaeili, Jamal Dehghan, Morteza Nasimsobhan
To Faghat Madare Man Bash is a 2016 Iranian short drama film directed by Roghaye Tavakkoli, running sixteen minutes and centering on a mother caught between her need for love and her duty to her son after the breakdown of her marriage.
What is To Faghat Madare Man Bash about?
Sara is a divorced mother who has built a new life alongside a man she loves, but her young son refuses to accept this relationship. As tension between the two grows, she finds herself pulled in opposite directions — the partnership she needs as a woman and the unconditional presence her child demands as a mother. The film distills its conflict into a single, compressed emotional arc, asking whether a mother is ever permitted to choose herself without that choice being read as abandonment. No resolution is handed to the viewer; instead, the camera holds on Sara's face as the weight of the decision settles.
Cast & crew
Sara Bahrami, one of Iranian cinema's most accomplished dramatic performers, brings quiet precision to the lead role. Sajjad Esmaeili plays the son with a rawness that keeps sympathy genuinely divided. Jamal Dehghan and Morteza Nasimsobhan round out the small cast in supporting roles. Director Roghaye Tavakkoli shapes every performance toward restraint rather than sentiment.
Context & significance
Short films occupy a vital corner of Iranian cinema — often more experimental and more personally urgent than their feature counterparts, and frequently the space where women directors work with the greatest creative freedom. To Faghat Madare Man Bash arrives in that tradition: intimate, compressed, and focused on the domestic contradictions Iranian women navigate daily. For diaspora audiences, the film's central dilemma — a mother's personhood against the expectations of family loyalty — resonates beyond geography. It speaks to the same pressures many Iranian families carried with them abroad, where generational and gender roles are renegotiated quietly, often painfully.
Where & how to watch
To Faghat Madare Man Bash is available now on K-Time in its original Persian audio. No Persian dubbing or subtitles are included for this title. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and cancel anytime.