Director: Reza Goran

Cast: Baran Kosari-Sara Bahrami-Roya Afshar-Pardis Ahmadieh-Elham Korda-Jamshid Hashempur

Sarkoob is a 2020 Iranian drama film directed by Reza Goran, following three estranged sisters who return to their family home only to confront a mother lost to Alzheimer's, an absent father, and decades of buried grief that the walls of that house have quietly held.

What is Sarkoob about?

Three adult sisters reunite at their childhood home after years apart. What begins as a reluctant homecoming quickly reveals the full weight of what time has eroded: their mother, deep in the fog of Alzheimer's, can no longer anchor the family's history, while their father is nowhere to be found. A hired caretaker navigates the household's tension. As the sisters move through shared rooms and old silences, long-suppressed resentments and questions surface. The film holds its drama in restraint — less in what is said than in what these women carry between them and cannot put down.

Cast & crew

Baran Kosari, Sara Bahrami, Roya Afshar, Pardis Ahmadieh, and Elham Korda form the ensemble at the heart of this film — five performers whose collective work gives the drama its emotional texture. Jamshid Hashempur appears in a supporting role. Director Reza Goran draws unhurried, precise performances from each of them.

Context & significance

Iranian cinema has long explored the family home as a space where personal and generational wounds converge, and Sarkoob is firmly in that tradition. For diaspora viewers, the film speaks to something universally familiar: the experience of returning to a place that shaped you only to find it altered — and altered people within it. Alzheimer's functions here not only as a medical condition but as a structural metaphor for what families lose when shared memory dissolves. The all-female ensemble at its center makes this a quietly notable film within contemporary Iranian drama.

Where & how to watch

Sarkoob is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. No VPN is needed, no extra download required. Watch on any web browser, TV, or phone and cancel anytime.