A fourteen-year-old judo talent tries to hold his family together and instead finds that the hardest opponent is the temper he inherited from his father.
What is Brother about?
Dawid (David) is fourteen and could one day be a judo champion, if it were not for an explosive aggression he struggles to keep in check. That anger is the only legacy left to him by a violent father who is now serving time in prison. At home he tries to live up to his mother's expectations while looking after his nine-year-old brother, carrying responsibilities well beyond his age. Maciej Sobieszczański's 2025 drama follows that strain as an invitation to an important judo tournament offers him a real chance to change his life, set against a Poland of training halls, modest flats and prison visiting rooms rather than postcard landmarks. Filip Wiłkomirski plays Dawid with a coiled, watchful intensity that the film leans on throughout, and the pull of the absent father keeps the stakes around him rising. Tytus Szymczuk, Agnieszka Grochowska, and the rest of the cast fill out a world where loyalty and self-preservation keep trading places.
About the cast
Filip Wiłkomirski anchors the film as Dawid, the teenage judoka at its center, with Tytus Szymczuk alongside him as the younger brother. Agnieszka Grochowska, Julian Świeżewski, Jacek Braciak, Tomasz Schuchardt, Julian Zbiróg, and Lena Swed round out the ensemble around them, with the cast holding to a lived-in, unglamorous register that matches the film's setting.
Context & significance
Brother, known in Polish as Brat, premiered at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia in 2025 and went on to screen at festivals in Warsaw and Cottbus, and its portrait of a boy trying not to become his father found an audience beyond its home country. Director Maciej Sobieszczański, who co-wrote the script with Grzegorz Puda, previously made the 2017 feature The Reconciliation, and here he works on a smaller, more intimate scale as a Polish-Czech co-production. The film sits within a strand of Central European coming-of-age cinema that uses sport as a way to talk about family, inherited violence and the chance of breaking a cycle.
Watching Brother on Ktime
Brother is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer either option. The platform's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking audiences to browse and queue titles like this one alongside the rest of the catalog.