Grief takes on a stranger, more technological shape in Rebroken, where a set of recordings from an unknown source reopens a father's mourning in an unsettling new form.
What is Rebroken about?
A father who has lost his daughter receives a batch of recordings passed along by a mysterious stranger, recordings that seem to carry messages from the daughter he's grieving. As he replays them and tries to make sense of what he's hearing, the recordings pull him deeper into obsession, blurring the line between comfort and something more troubling. Around the same time, he grows wary of the support group he has been attending, suspecting its members and organizers have reasons for being in his life that go beyond helping him heal. Rebroken tracks his unraveling as those two threads, the recordings and the group, start to close in on each other.
About the cast
Scott Hamm Duenas leads as the grieving father, with Kipp Tribble, Alison Haislip, Tobin Bell, Nija Okoro, and Richard Siegelman filling out the film's small, tightly wound cast. Director Kenny Yates keeps the focus close on the father's state of mind, using the ensemble to populate the support group and the wider mystery around the recordings rather than spreading the story across a large cast of subplots.
Context & significance
Rebroken blends grief drama with horror-thriller mechanics, using audio recordings as its central unsettling device rather than jump scares or gore. That choice puts it alongside a run of recent genre films that treat mourning itself as a source of dread, letting a father's need to hear his daughter's voice again become the engine of the plot. At 93 minutes, the film moves through the recordings, the support-group scenes, and the growing suspicion between them at a tight, controlled pace.
Watching Rebroken on Ktime
Rebroken is available to watch on K-Time once you're logged into a free account, with no extra purchase needed. K-Time's Farsi-language interface and subtitle tools make it easy for Persian-speaking audiences to find and follow English-language genre titles like this one alongside the rest of the catalogue.