Director: Luna Carmoon
Grief, clutter, and adolescence tangle together in Hoard, a 2024 British drama from writer-director Luna Carmoon that treats a hoarder's leftover mess as a kind of inheritance.
What is Hoard about?
Set in the 1990s, the story follows Maria, a teenager who grew up inside her mother's compulsive hoarding before being placed in a foster home. Years later, a former resident of that same home, Michael, reenters her life and unsettles the careful distance she has kept from her past. His presence pulls her back toward the sensations, objects, and half-buried habits of her childhood, forcing her to confront urges and memories she thought she had left behind rather than simply outgrown.
Cast & crew
Saura Lightfoot Leon plays Maria, with Joseph Quinn as Michael. Hayley Squires, Lily-Beau Leach, Deba Hekmat, Samantha Spiro, Cathy Tyson, and Nabil Elouahabi complete a cast built around Maria's foster family and the people orbiting her past.
Context & significance
Hoard premiered in 2024 and runs 126 minutes, a length that gives its sensory, almost tactile approach to memory room to breathe. Rather than treating hoarding as simple disorder, the film — categorized straightforwardly as drama — uses it as a lens on attachment, loss, and how a chaotic upbringing can leave marks that resurface unpredictably in adulthood, long after a person believes they have moved past it.
Where & how to watch
K-Time streams Hoard with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so audiences can watch in whichever form suits them best. Reading this page needs no account, but starting the film requires signing into K-Time for free. The platform is built with Farsi-speaking viewers in mind, from its subtitle library to its everyday navigation.