Director: Saïd Belktibia
A single mother running an underground trade in exotic animals turns her hustle into something bigger in Hood Witch, a 2024 French thriller starring Golshifteh Farahani.
What is Hood Witch about?
Nour supports herself and her son on the margins of Paris, dealing in birds of prey, venom, and rare roots for clients who need things money can't buy through ordinary channels. When she builds an app that connects paying customers to marabouts and healers, her small operation suddenly scales into a real business, and the extra income promises a way out of the neighborhood for her son. That promise collapses fast: a routine consultation with a client goes wrong, and Nour finds herself pulled into a spiral of violence that threatens to take everything from her. Director Saïd Belktibia frames the fallout as a chase through Paris's underbelly, with Nour forced to call on every contact and instinct she has just to keep her son safe.
Cast & crew
Golshifteh Farahani anchors the film as Nour, bringing a wary, protective intensity to a woman who has spent years operating just outside the law. She's joined by Denis Lavant, Alexis Manenti, and Amine Zariouhi in a supporting cast built for a fast, tense chase through the city's back channels.
Context & significance
Hood Witch arrived in 2024 as a French genre entry that folds urban crime plotting into a premise built around folk healing and modern tech, using the marabout-app angle to update an old smuggler's-life story for the smartphone era. It sits alongside a run of French thrillers set in immigrant neighborhoods on the edges of Paris, trading procedural detail for momentum once the plot turns violent.
Where & how to watch
Hood Witch is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login. The K-Time interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking viewers, and this page itself is free to read without signing in.