Creation gets rewritten as an act of humility rather than triumph in Four Souls of Coyote, director Áron Gauder's 2023 animated feature from Hungary. The film treats humankind as one small, fumbling part of a much larger world rather than its intended center.
What is Four Souls of Coyote about?
The story opens at the very beginning of time, before anything has a name, as a figure known as Old Man starts shaping a new world out of a handful of mud. Everything that follows — animals, feelings, desire, conflict — is untested and newly made, and the film presents people not as the finished purpose of that creation but as one of its weaker inhabitants among many. Framed explicitly as a tribute to a people stripped of much of their own history, it draws on oral creation-story tradition to build an origin myth that only grows more tangled as the world it describes fills up with life. Hungarian voice actors János Papp, Péter Bozsó, Tamás Széles, and Pikali Gerda lead an expanding ensemble as that world takes shape around them.
About the cast
The Hungarian voice cast — János Papp, Péter Bozsó, Tamás Széles, Pikali Gerda, Bálint Vida, Sára Vida, Péter Scherer, and Róbert Bolla — gives voice to the film's growing roster of spirits, animals, and early humans as Old Man's newly made world fills in around them.
Context & significance
Director Áron Gauder brings a distinctive, hand-built animation style to a story rooted in oral creation-myth tradition, moving across adventure, animation, and drama over a 103-minute runtime as its world grows steadily more crowded and more complicated. The film has earned a solid critical reception, with the mythic framing giving the imagery room to swing from the intimate to the cosmic within a single scene.
Watching Four Souls of Coyote on Ktime
Four Souls of Coyote streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the original Hungarian voice track with Farsi subtitles or switch to a fully dubbed Farsi version. Watching the film requires only a free K-Time account login, while the film's page itself — including this background — is open to read without signing in. K-Time's Farsi-first design is built for exactly this kind of discovery, surfacing animated and family-friendly titles from outside the usual mainstream lineup for Persian-speaking households.