Director: Reza HosseinAbadi
Cast: Bahar Mohammad Pour, Behzad Khodaveisi, Hossein Soleimani, Mahmoud Azizi, Mehdi Faghih
Sokoote Gabra is a 2017 Iranian horror-social film directed by Reza HosseinAbadi, following a young woman who returns from abroad to her ancestral hometown in Iran to settle her late grandfather's estate — and finds herself drawn into a web of unsettling, inexplicable events.
What is Sokoote Gabra about?
Ghazal has built her life outside Iran, but a practical matter pulls her back: the family property left behind by her grandfather must be sold. She travels to a provincial town expecting routine paperwork and familiar faces. Instead, the town greets her with an atmosphere of unease she cannot name. Neighbors react strangely; the old house holds silences that feel inhabited. As she tries to complete her errand and leave, the unexpected keeps blocking her path — incidents that blur the line between local superstition and something far more concrete. What she came for and what she uncovers pull in opposite directions, and the town refuses to let her go quietly.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Reza HosseinAbadi. The cast includes Bahar Mohammad Pour in the lead role of Ghazal, alongside Behzad Khodaveisi, Hossein Soleimani, Mahmoud Azizi, Mehdi Faghih, and Saeedeh Arab in supporting roles that populate the town's unsettling community.
Context & significance
Iranian horror has long used domestic spaces — ancestral homes, provincial towns, inherited land — as sites of tension between modernity and tradition. Sokoote Gabra taps directly into that lineage, framing the diaspora return trip as a horror premise. For Iranian viewers abroad, the story of a woman coming back to sell family property resonates beyond genre: questions of inheritance, attachment to a homeland that has changed, and the feeling of being a stranger in one's own roots are woven into the fabric of the film. The social genre tag signals that the horror is not purely supernatural; the community itself, its silences and its expectations, functions as the source of dread.
Where & how to watch
Sokoote Gabra is available on K-Time in original Persian audio. No VPN is needed — the film streams without geo-blocking on your browser, TV, or phone. Start watching with a K-Time subscription and cancel anytime.