Old grudges surface fastest under pressure, and Gangland, a 2025 American crime-action feature from director Vincent Grashaw, sets that pressure in motion the moment a ruthless fugitive comes home to a rural Indigenous reservation.
What is Gangland about?
The job looks simple enough on paper: a weathered tribal cop and his new trainee have to find one man before he does more damage. Gangland spends its 104-minute runtime tracking how quickly that search stops being simple, as the fugitive's return drags the reservation's darkest secrets into the open and pushes rival factions toward a violent gang war. Director Vincent Grashaw frames the manhunt less as a single chase than as the opening move in a longer reckoning, one where the veteran officer has to face how much his own community knows, and how much it has chosen to keep quiet. The film leans into hard-edged crime filmmaking, pairing a seasoned lawman with an outsider still learning the ground, and it gives its small-community story the weight and momentum of a full-length feature rather than a quick genre exercise.
About the cast
Lou Diamond Phillips leads as Teddy, the veteran tribal officer at the center of the manhunt, with Dana Namerode as Sandra Scala, the trainee assigned to him, and Elisha Pratt as Richie, a man newly out of prison. Nick Stahl, Irene Bedard, Lane Factor, Kimberly Guerrero and James Whitecloud round out an ensemble whose shared history carries as much weight as the chase itself.
Context & significance
Gangland comes from Vincent Grashaw, an American independent filmmaker whose earlier features include Coldwater, And Then I Go and What Josiah Saw, the last of which also featured Nick Stahl. Written by Zach Montague and first shown under the title Keep Quiet, the film belongs to a line of reservation-set crime dramas that favor rural, close-knit settings over the metropolitan backdrops more common to American police stories. The veteran-and-rookie structure is a durable one in the genre, giving the film a built-in fault line to exploit once the search turns up more than a single fugitive.
Watching Gangland on Ktime
Gangland is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the film's crime-thriller pacing comes through clearly for Farsi-speaking viewers. Watching the film requires a free K-Time account login, while this page remains free to read for any visitor. The platform's Farsi-first catalogue design makes it simple to find Gangland alongside other action titles curated for the Iranian diaspora.