Director: Tiffany Paulsen
Four days, spread across one pivotal year, hold together the whole of "Winter Spring Summer or Fall" (2024), a 97-minute American teen romance that unfolds almost entirely between two people.
What is Winter Spring Summer or Fall about?
Remi and Barnes could not be more different: she plans every hour of her senior year with the precision of someone leaving for college soon, while he drifts without much direction at all. A chance meeting in winter throws them together, and the film returns to them at three more points across the seasons that follow, each encounter longer and more complicated than the last. Rather than tracking a conventional courtship from beginning to end, the story leans on gaps in time, letting the audience fill in what changed between visits. Those gaps become the film's real subject: how much two teenagers can grow, argue, and reconsider each other in the months a script never shows.
Cast & crew
Jenna Ortega plays Remi and Percy Hynes White plays Barnes, with Adam Rodriguez, Marisol Nichols, Elias Kacavas, Jacqueline Emerson, John Raymond Barker and Kate Rachesky filling out the supporting cast around the two leads.
Context & significance
Tiffany Paulsen directs the film, working from a structure that compresses a full year into four discrete days rather than a continuous timeline. Released in 2024, it belongs to a small run of coming-of-age dramas built around the senior-year transition, using the seasonal gaps between scenes to suggest how quickly teenage circumstances can shift. The approach asks the audience to do some of the connecting work themselves, which has made the film a talking point among viewers who favor unconventional romance structures over straightforward ones. Its four-season framework also gives the two leads room to be shown at different emotional points without a single continuous arc explaining every shift, a choice that sets it apart from more linear entries in the genre.
Where & how to watch
"Winter Spring Summer or Fall" is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, built into a catalog designed for Farsi-speaking viewers everywhere. Reading this page requires nothing at all, and watching only needs a free K-Time account.