Home, in Mobile Homes, is wherever the next motel parking lot happens to be, and that instability is exactly what director Vladimir de Fontenay puts at the center of his 2018 drama.
What is Mobile Homes about?
A young mother moves from one roadside motel to the next with her son, following a boyfriend whose charm barely covers how little stability he actually offers. The three scrape together a living one hustle and one short-term job at a time, treating each new room as temporary by definition, until a chance at something steadier finally puts real distance between the mother and the life she has been getting by on. The film, a French-Canadian co-production, stays close to its characters' day-to-day survival rather than building toward a single dramatic turn, letting the accumulation of small choices carry the weight.
About the cast
Imogen Poots and Callum Turner anchor the film, with Callum Keith Rennie, Shane Daly, Karen LeBlanc, Pedro Salvín, Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, and Frank Oulton filling out a cast drawn from both sides of the French-Canadian production.
Context & significance
Vladimir de Fontenay directs Mobile Homes at 105 minutes, giving the itinerant family's routine room to breathe rather than compressing it into a fast-moving plot. The France-Canada co-production leans into a lived-in, unglamorous vision of life on the road, closer to social-realist drama than to a conventional road movie, and its focus on a child caught inside an adult's unstable choices gives the story its emotional stakes without needing a dramatic reveal to justify itself.
Watching Mobile Homes on Ktime
Mobile Homes is available on K-Time with a free account login, and the film's page is open to browse without signing in. K-Time's Farsi-language interface is built for the Iranian diaspora, so viewers can move easily between international dramas like this one and the platform's Persian catalogue, all inside one account.