Two teenage shepherds herding livestock in the mountains become the target of a sudden, brutal attack in Red Path, a 2025 drama that turns a single act of violence into a rural family's unbearable inheritance.
What is Red Path about?
Directed by Lotfi Achour, the film follows Ashraf, fourteen, and his older cousin Nizar, sixteen, as they tend their family's herd in a remote mountain landscape. When armed men attack the two boys, Nizar is killed, and Ashraf is forced to carry the news back to his family himself. The film centers less on the violence of that moment than on its aftermath — how a small rural community absorbs a loss this sudden, and how a boy barely into his teens is made to deliver it. Rather than building toward a mystery or a reveal, Red Path stays close to Ashraf's point of view as grief, fear, and duty tangle together in the days that follow. The result is a spare, unflinching drama about what violence leaves behind in a place with few resources to process it.
About the cast
Ali Helali plays Ashraf, with Yassine Samouni as Nizar, alongside Wided Dabebi, Younes Naouar, Latifa Gafsi, Jemii Lamari, Salha Nasraoui, and Mounir Khazri rounding out the cast. The film is an international co-production spanning Belgium, France, Poland, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, reflecting the wide backing behind Lotfi Achour's telling of a story rooted in rural Tunisia.
Context & significance
Red Path belongs to a strand of festival-oriented drama that uses a single rural incident to examine wider pressures on a community, rather than treating the attack itself as the point of the story. At 101 minutes, the film moves deliberately, giving space to the family's response instead of compressing it into a montage. Viewers coming from crime dramas built around investigation or suspense should expect something different here: the film is far more interested in what a fourteen-year-old carries afterward than in unpacking who attacked him or why.
Watching Red Path on Ktime
Red Path streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a choice of how to watch it. A free K-Time account login is all that's required to stream the film, while the page and this write-up remain free to read without signing in. K-Time's Farsi-first design serves the Iranian diaspora directly, so browsing and discovery around titles like this stay in Persian throughout.