Director: David Cronenberg
The Shrouds is a 2025 drama and science-fiction film directed by David Cronenberg. Made as a Canada and France co-production, it runs roughly two hours and follows a widower whose grief pushes him into an unsettling new relationship with death, technology, and surveillance.
What is The Shrouds about?
Karsh is a successful businessman who cannot move past the death of his wife. In response, he builds a company around an unusual burial technology: a specially engineered shroud fitted with imaging hardware that streams a live view of the body inside the grave, so that mourners can keep watching a loved one long after the funeral. Karsh uses the system to observe his own wife's remains through a screen at her graveside. When several plots at the cemetery he designed are dug up and damaged one night, hers among them, he sets out to learn who tampered with the graves and whether the technology itself has been breached. His search draws in his sister-in-law, a nervous technical partner, and a widening circle of possible motives, and the film keeps its focus on how mourning, jealousy, and paranoia feed one another.
Cast & crew
Vincent Cassel plays Karsh, the grieving entrepreneur at the center of the story. Diane Kruger appears in more than one role connected to his wife and her family, while Guy Pearce plays a technically minded acquaintance drawn into the mystery. The supporting cast includes Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Steve Switzman, and Ingvar E. Sigurdsson. The performances are built around quiet, close conversations rather than large set pieces, in keeping with the film's contained scale.
Context & significance
The Shrouds is a late-career work from David Cronenberg, a Canadian filmmaker long associated with stories that place the human body at the edge of medicine and machinery. The film premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025 and was produced within a Canada and France financing structure. Its subject matter, a grieving man and a device that keeps the dead on a screen, sits within Cronenberg's recurring interest in how people use technology to manage loss and control.
Where & how to watch
You can watch The Shrouds on K-Time once you are signed in with a K-Time account. This title is offered with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow it in Farsi as well as in the original audio. The page you are reading is free to browse without logging in; only playback requires an account. K-Time is built as a Persian-language streaming experience for the Iranian diaspora, with a Farsi interface throughout.