Director: Gustav Möller
Inside a Danish prison built on trust and rehabilitation, a veteran officer's belief in the system is tested the moment a face from her past walks through the gates as a new inmate.
What is Sons about?
Eva has spent years working in a low-security wing where the whole philosophy rests on treating inmates as people capable of change, and she has built her professional identity around that principle. That balance shatters when a young man connected to a painful chapter of her own history is transferred into her unit. Eva requests reassignment to the prison's harsher, high-security block just to stay near him, and from there the film tracks her slow unraveling as personal history collides with professional duty. Rather than building toward a single explosive confrontation, the story lets tension accumulate through small decisions — a favor granted, a rule bent, a silence kept — until Eva's own conduct becomes as morally uncertain as the men she's meant to be rehabilitating.
Cast & crew
Sidse Babett Knudsen anchors the film as Eva, playing a character whose composure erodes scene by scene as her control over the situation weakens. Sebastian Bull Sarning appears as the young inmate at the center of her fixation, with Dar Salim, Marina Bouras, and Olaf Johannessen filling out the prison's staff and inmate population around them.
Context & significance
Director Gustav Möller, known for building tension through disciplined, procedural filmmaking, sets the story almost entirely within prison walls, using the institution's own rules and routines as the mechanism that slowly traps Eva rather than relying on outside plot machinery. The Danish, French, and Swedish co-production keeps its scope narrow and its focus tightly on Eva's psychology.
Where & how to watch
Sons streams on K-Time with a fully Farsi-language interface designed for Persian-speaking viewers, and the film is available with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Reading this page costs nothing, and watching the film simply requires logging into a K-Time account.