Grief has a way of reshaping everything around it, and for seventeen-year-old Coley that reshaping arrives just as a new feeling she isn't ready for starts pulling at her. "Girls Like Girls," directed by Hayley Kiyoko, is a 2026 coming-of-age drama set in rural Oregon.
What is Girls Like Girls about?
Coley is still working through the loss of her mother when Sonya moves into her orbit, and the connection between them arrives faster than either girl expected. For Coley, it means confronting feelings she has kept quiet, tangled up with self-doubt about whether she deserves to want anything for herself right now. For Sonya, who has never dated a girl before, it means sitting with uncertainty she doesn't have a script for. Neither of them handles it smoothly — the film follows both of them stumbling toward honesty rather than arriving at it cleanly, set against a small-town backdrop where everyone seems to notice everything. It's a story about learning to let a new feeling exist alongside grief instead of treating the two as competing claims on the same person.
About the cast
Maya da Costa and Myra Molloy play Coley and Sonya, with Zach Braff appearing in a supporting role.
Context & significance
"Girls Like Girls" comes from writer-director Hayley Kiyoko, working in the coming-of-age space with a story that treats first queer relationships and grief as intertwined rather than separate arcs. The rural Oregon setting keeps the scale small and personal — this is a film about two specific people learning to trust a feeling neither of them planned for, not a broader statement piece. On K-Time it streams with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles.
Watching Girls Like Girls on Ktime
"Girls Like Girls" is available on K-Time with Persian dub and Persian subtitle options, through the platform's Farsi-first interface built for the Iranian diaspora. Watching it only requires a free K-Time account — log in and the film is ready to stream.