Grief and suspicion arrive at the same front door in The Truthers, a 2026 Spanish thriller from director Roger Gual about a daughter forced back into a family she left behind.
What is The Truthers about?
The Truthers centers on Ruth, a woman who has spent years estranged from her family, and the sudden death of her mother under circumstances strange enough to pull her back home. Once there, she finds her father Martín changed by retirement in ways that unsettle her as much as the loss itself, and the film builds its tension out of the gap between what Ruth remembers about her family and what she finds waiting for her now. Rather than staging a conventional whodunit, the story leans on the discomfort of returning to a house full of old grievances at the exact moment new questions start piling up, letting the thriller elements grow out of family dysfunction instead of the other way around. Jose Coronado plays Martín opposite Fanny Gautier and Olaya López, and the small, tightly held cast keeps the film's focus on a handful of rooms and the people inside them rather than on any wider conspiracy.
About the cast
Jose Coronado anchors the film as Martín, the father whose post-retirement behavior becomes a source of quiet unease for his returning daughter. Fanny Gautier and Olaya López fill out the cast, playing roles that draw Ruth further into the tangled circumstances surrounding her mother's death. Director Roger Gual keeps the ensemble small by design, favoring close, sustained scenes over a large supporting cast.
Context & significance
The Truthers is a Spanish production that fits within a broader wave of European domestic thrillers, where the danger comes less from an outside threat than from what has quietly gone wrong inside a single family over years of distance and silence. At 106 minutes, the film has a tighter runtime than many thrillers in its genre, which tends to push these stories toward slow-burn tension rather than sprawling plotting. It arrives as one of several Spanish-language thrillers reaching international audiences through K-Time's catalog this year.
Watching The Truthers on Ktime
The Truthers streams on K-Time with a free account login, available with Persian dubbing or Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer to hear the original Spanish performances. The platform's Farsi interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to discover thrillers like this one alongside K-Time's wider drama catalog.