Released in 2026, Kouri is an Iranian series that runs a criminal inquiry alongside the households the case reaches. Sajjad Pahlavanzadeh directs, episodes last roughly sixty-five minutes, and the ensemble mixes long-established screen actors with newer faces.
What is Kouri about?
The story begins after an incident whose consequences extend well past the people directly involved. An examining investigator is assigned to establish what happened and where responsibility lies, and the statements, records and case files he assembles form the spine of the narrative. Beside that procedural line runs a second: the homes altered by the event, where routines and relationships must be rebuilt while the inquiry stays open. Episodes move between interview rooms, workplaces and family interiors, allowing one set of events to be described more than once by people who each saw a different part of it. The mystery comes from the distance between those accounts rather than from action sequences, and the drama from what the participants owe one another as facts settle.
About the cast
Amir Jafari and Merila Zare'i head an ensemble that also includes Sara Bahrami, Shahram Ghaedi, Mohsen Ghassabian, Hadis Miramini, Amir Noruzi and Abbas Jamshidifar. Jafari and Zare'i have worked in Iranian cinema and television for decades, while Bahrami and Ghaedi have appeared widely in recent series work. The ensemble structure spreads screen time across several performers instead of concentrating it on one lead.
Context & significance
Kouri sits in the strand of Iranian serial drama that uses an investigation as the frame for social storytelling, a format with a long history on Iranian television and in the country's home-video series market. The listed genres of drama, crime, family and mystery describe a production that gives domestic scenes as much room as procedure. An episode length near sixty-five minutes is typical of the longer Iranian serial format, letting subplots develop across a season rather than close each week. The series was produced in Iran and performed in Persian.
Watching Kouri on Ktime
Kouri streams on K-Time for signed-in members. Reading this page requires nothing; starting an episode requires a K-Time account login. The service is built for Persian-speaking viewers living abroad, with a Farsi interface, Persian-language films and series sorted by genre, and playback on phones, tablets, computers and television. Playback resumes where it stopped, so an episode need not be finished in one sitting.