Is My Dead Friend Zoe based on a true story?

Yes — the film is inspired by real events. Director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes drew on his own experiences as a U.S. Army veteran to shape the story, giving the grief and dark humor an authenticity that feels grounded rather than performed.

Koja bebinam My Dead Friend Zoe ba dubbing farsi?

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What genre is this film — comedy ya drama?

Both at once. The film blends dark comedy with genuine emotional drama, using Zoe's ghost as comic relief and a grief mechanism simultaneously. It runs 103 minutes and earns its laughs without softening the harder truths.

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بله — فیلم روی تجربهی نسلهای مختلف جنگزده تمرکز دارد و برای هر کسی که از دست دادن یا سکوت پس از جنگ را میشناسد، لحظههای آشنای زیادی دارد؛ چه سرباز باشد چه خانوادهاش.

My Dead Friend Zoe

Name: My Dead Friend Zoe
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 2025
Duration: 103 min
Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Utkarsh Ambudkar

Director: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Utkarsh Ambudkar

My Dead Friend Zoe is a 2025 American drama-comedy film directed by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, starring Sonequa Martin-Green as a U.S. Army veteran navigating life after Afghanistan while the vivid ghost of her fallen best friend refuses to let her slip quietly into civilian numbness.

What is My Dead Friend Zoe about?

Merit, a young woman who served in the U.S. Army during the war in Afghanistan, returns home carrying wounds that no discharge paper can name. She is haunted — quite literally — by Zoe, her best friend and fellow soldier who did not make it back. Zoe's ghost appears beside her at every turn: loud, opinionated, and stubbornly present. Merit is sent to a VA counseling program and forced to spend time with her estranged grandfather, himself a Vietnam War veteran who carries his own decades-old silence. As three generations of wartime trauma brush against each other, Merit must figure out whether grief can become something she chooses to carry rather than something that carries her.

Cast & crew

Sonequa Martin-Green carries the film with raw, understated precision, playing Merit's grief as something physical she wears every day. Ed Harris brings quiet gravity to the grandfather role, and Morgan Freeman adds warm authority to the VA counselor. Natalie Morales is the anchor of the film's darkly comic energy as the irrepressible ghost Zoe. Director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, himself a U.S. Army veteran, shapes the material from lived familiarity rather than observation.

Context & significance

For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora — many of whom understand displacement, cultural rupture, and the specific silence of post-war life — My Dead Friend Zoe resonates well beyond its American setting. The film sits at the intersection of dark comedy and survivor drama, a genre increasingly popular among Iranian-diaspora audiences who appreciate stories that refuse clean emotional resolution. The Afghanistan backdrop is filtered through a very personal and familial lens, making the geopolitical peripheral and the human central. The film is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing AND Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose the listening experience that suits them best.

Where & how to watch

My Dead Friend Zoe is available now on K-Time with full Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, on your smart TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.