Director: Kasper Barfoed
When a volcanologist starts logging tremors beneath a Canary Island resort town, the Norwegian family on holiday nearby has no idea their summer trip is about to become a fight for survival.
What is La Palma about?
La Palma follows a Norwegian family whose relaxed island vacation turns urgent once a visiting researcher spots warning signs that the dormant volcano beneath them is stirring again. As local officials weigh evacuation against tourism dollars, the family gets caught between conflicting warnings, slow-moving bureaucracy, and their own instinct to protect each other. The show tracks how quickly ordinary plans — beach days, dinner reservations, a teenager's crush — collapse once the ground itself becomes unpredictable, and how a holiday crowd scatters when a tsunami threat turns from theory to countdown.
Cast & crew
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal and Anders Baasmo Christiansen anchor the family at the center of the crisis, with Thea Sofie Loch Næss and young cast members Alma Günther and Bernard Storm Lager rounding out a household under pressure. Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and Thorbjørn Harr appear in supporting roles tied to the island's response.
Context & significance
Director Kasper Barfoed builds the series around a real geological anxiety: La Palma's volcanic history has long made it a subject of tsunami-risk speculation among scientists, and the show leans on that premise rather than pure fantasy. Filmed with an eye toward disaster-thriller pacing, it favors mounting dread over spectacle in its early hours, saving its bigger set pieces for once evacuation becomes unavoidable. The Norwegian-language production sits alongside a wave of Nordic disaster dramas that trade Hollywood scale for tighter, family-focused stakes.
Where & how to watch
La Palma streams on K-Time with a Farsi-dubbed track and Persian subtitles, so Persian-speaking viewers can follow the family's ordeal in their own language. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to start watching — the show's page here is open to browse without signing in first, and the interface itself runs in Farsi for the diaspora audience.