Director: Marcela Said, Julien Despaux
Riots light up the outskirts of Paris in Ourika, a 2024 French crime drama that traces the collision course between a street dealer and a cop caught on opposite sides of the same fractured neighborhood. The series unfolds against the real unrest of 2005, using that charged backdrop to frame an intimate story of survival.
What is Ourika about?
As tensions boil over in the banlieues, a young dealer tries to keep his footing while a police officer works the same streets from the other direction, each one drawn deeper into a conflict neither fully controls. Curfews, roadblocks, and nightly confrontations turn everyday errands into calculated risks, and loyalties within both the dealer's circle and the police unit start to fracture under pressure. Rather than choosing a single hero, the show follows both men closely enough that their choices, and the costs attached to them, feel equally weighted. What begins as parallel routines slowly converges into a shared reckoning neither man saw coming.
Cast & crew
Adam Bessa and Salim Kéchiouche lead the ensemble, with Noham Edje, Booba, Slimane Dazi, Max Gomis, Rayan Bouazza, and Sawsan Abès rounding out a cast built around the neighborhood's dealers, families, and officers on patrol.
Context & significance
Directed by Marcela Said and Julien Despaux, Ourika (released internationally as The Source) runs six episodes of roughly fifty minutes each, giving the 2005 unrest room to breathe as a slow-building backdrop rather than a single dramatic event. The French production leans on location-heavy filming to root its two lead perspectives in a specific time and place. An IMDb rating of 6.6 places it among the steadier genre entries of its year, with critics noting its restraint in handling a period that still carries weight in French social memory.
Where & how to watch
Ourika is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the tension of the series without losing nuance in translation. Browsing the show's page costs nothing; watching it only requires signing into a K-Time account, part of the platform's Farsi-first approach for the Iranian diaspora.