Director: Piero Messina
Another End imagines a near-future technology that lets the grieving briefly speak again with someone they've lost, and follows one man who can't decide whether that comfort helps him heal or keeps him stuck.
What is Another End about?
Sal is unable to move past the death of his partner Zoe, so his sister persuades him to try a controversial process that places a deceased person's memories and personality into a living host, allowing a limited window for one last goodbye. When Sal meets the host carrying Zoe's consciousness, the line between closure and denial starts to blur, and the story follows the emotional fallout for everyone involved, including the host herself, who has her own life interrupted by carrying someone else's memories. Director Piero Messina builds the film around quiet, restrained scenes rather than big science-fiction spectacle, using the premise mainly to examine grief, memory, and how attached people become to the idea of a second chance.
Cast & crew
Gael García Bernal plays Sal with a controlled sadness that carries the film's emotional weight, while Renate Reinsve, known for her breakout work in recent European cinema, plays the host whose body becomes the meeting point between the living and the dead. Bérénice Bejo and Olivia Williams round out a cast that keeps the focus on intimate, dialogue-driven scenes rather than genre theatrics.
Context & significance
Another End is a 2024 co-production between France, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and it fits into a small run of recent films using speculative technology as a lens for grief rather than as an action premise. The film's restrained tone and festival pedigree place it closer to European art-house drama than mainstream science fiction, even though its premise is built on a fantastical idea.
Where & how to watch
K-Time offers Another End with a Farsi dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can watch the film fully in their own language. A free K-Time account login is required to press play, though the film's page can be browsed without signing in, and the platform is built around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking audiences wherever they live.