Director: Sidharta Tata
Dusk carries its own dread in "Maghrib Time," a 2023 Indonesian horror feature built around the fragile minutes when the evening call to prayer meets the coming dark.
What is Maghrib Time about?
Two young men, Adi and Saman, find themselves stalked by something that refuses to let them rest. A local woman named Ayu holds the missing piece of the puzzle: an old transgression committed during the maghrib hour, the brief window between daylight and night when village folklore says the unseen world draws closest. As the torment escalates and sleep stops being safe, Ayu starts pulling at the thread that connects the two men's suffering to a debt the community would rather forget. Director Sidharta Tata sets the story in a close-knit rural village, where everyone seems to know a version of the story but nobody wants to say it out loud, and lets that reluctance become part of the dread.
Cast & crew
Aulia Sarah anchors the ensemble as Ayu, opposite Ali Fikry and Nafiza Fatia Rani in the roles of the two haunted men. Taskya Namya, Sadana Agung, Bimasena, Kevin Abani, and Andri Mashadi round out the village cast swept up in the unfolding haunting.
Context & significance
"Maghrib Time" belongs to a wave of Southeast Asian horror that mines everyday religious ritual for dread instead of borrowing imported gothic imagery — the maghrib prayer itself functions as the film's clock, marking the exact minutes when the threat is strongest. Indonesian genre filmmaking has built a devoted following well beyond its home audience in recent years, and this film's small-village setting, communal guilt, and folklore-driven plotting sit squarely inside that tradition, favoring slow-building atmosphere over spectacle.
Where & how to watch
K-Time streams "Maghrib Time" with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the film plays comfortably start to finish in Farsi. Watching does require signing in with a free K-Time account, though this background page stays open to read without logging in first. K-Time's interface is built Farsi-first for Persian-speaking audiences, matching the film's own audio and subtitle options.