What does Pooste Shir mean?

It translates as Lionskin — the Persian title پوست شیر. The series streams under both names on Ktime.

Who stars in Pooste Shir?

Shahab Hosseini and Hadi Hejazifar lead, with Pantea Bahrami, Mehrdad Sedighian and Anahita Afshar.

Naeem endures fifteen years in prison for the hope of reuniting with his daughter. After his release, that reunion opens a far deeper family crisis than he expected.

Is Pooste Shir in Persian?

Yes — it streams on Ktime in original Persian with no VPN and no geo-block.

Pooste Shir (Lionskin) — Shahab Hosseini's 2022 Series on Ktime

A man survives fifteen years in prison on one hope — seeing his daughter again. Freedom turns out to be the harder sentence. Jamshid Mahmoudi's Pooste Shir, anchored by Shahab Hosseini, holds an IMDb 8.1 and sits among the most-watched series in our catalogue.

Pooste Shir — پوست شیر, “Lionskin” — is a family drama that opens where most prison stories end: at the gate, on the day a man walks free. Directed by Jamshid Mahmoudi and led by Shahab Hosseini, it holds an IMDb 8.1 and is one of the more-watched series in the Ktime catalogue, with more than 26,000 plays.

What it’s about

Naeem spent fifteen years inside, carried through them by a single image — his daughter, and the day he would see her again. Release does not deliver that day cleanly. The world moved on without him; the daughter he imagined is a person he has to actually meet, and the reunion he survived prison for becomes the start of a much harder reckoning. Hadi Hejazifar, Pantea Bahrami and Mehrdad Sedighian fill out a family with its own debts and silences.

Why it works

The title is the idea: a lion’s skin worn by someone who is not sure he is still a lion. Hosseini plays Naeem with the quiet, coiled control that has made him one of Iran’s most trusted leading men, and Mahmoudi — who made the acclaimed A Few Cubic Meters of Love — keeps the melodrama honest. At an 8.1, it is one of the higher-rated Persian series of its year, and it earns the rating by refusing the easy reunion.

If you like this

Hosseini also leads the historical landmark Shahrzad, a natural next watch. For more long-form Persian drama, Aban and the Iranian drama shelf are good places to continue, and the 2024 collection covers the recent film side.

Watching on Ktime

Pooste Shir streams on Ktime in original Persian, full quality, on Android TV, Fire TV, Google TV and Nvidia Shield — no VPN, no geo-block. Start watching, or pick up the pre-configured Ktime دستگاه at an Iranian shop in the Greater Toronto Area and start the first episode tonight.