A quiet Canadian drama from 2022, You Can Live Forever follows a teenage girl whose life is upended after she is sent to live inside a tight-knit Jehovah's Witness community.
What is You Can Live Forever about?
Jaime, a lesbian teenager, is packed off to stay with relatives in a small Quebec town after a difficult period at home. The household she lands in is devoutly religious, and the congregation quickly becomes the center of her new daily life. Among the young Witnesses she meets is a girl whose faith is sincere and whose presence Jaime cannot shake. What begins as an unlikely friendship deepens into something neither of them can safely name inside a community built on strict rules about love, marriage, and belonging. As the two grow closer, the gap between what they feel and what their surroundings allow becomes harder to ignore, and the choices in front of them start to carry real, lasting weight. The film stays close to Jaime's perspective throughout, favoring small gestures and stolen moments over dramatic confrontation.
About the cast
Anwen O'Driscoll leads as Jaime, with June Laporte, Liane Balaban, Deragh Campbell, Hasani Freeman, Lenni-Kim, Antoine Yared, and Tim Campbell rounding out the ensemble that populates her new town and its congregation.
Context & significance
Directed by Mark Slutsky and Sarah Watts, the film is a Canadian production set in a francophone Quebec community, and it approaches its Jehovah's Witness setting as lived-in social detail rather than spectacle. The Drama genre framing keeps the focus on interior conflict — faith, family expectation, and first love pulling against one another — rather than on external plot mechanics.
Watching You Can Live Forever on Ktime
You Can Live Forever streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles available, so viewers can choose either option. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film page itself is open to browse without one. K-Time's Farsi-first interface is built for the Iranian diaspora audience discovering titles like this one.