Summer holidays usually mean boredom and small discoveries. In this Scandinavian drama, a group of children finds something far stranger hiding under the routine of a housing block and its nearby woods.
What is The Innocents about?
Four kids meet during a break from school in a quiet apartment complex, and away from the notice of any parent they start to realize their minds can do things minds are not supposed to do. What begins as a private game among new friends, tested out in playgrounds and the edge of a forest, slips gradually toward something none of them can fully control or take back. The film stays close to a child's-eye view throughout, letting the audience discover the rules of this hidden ability at the same pace the characters do, and treating friendship, jealousy, and fear as forces just as unpredictable as anything supernatural.
About the cast
The film is led by a cast of young performers, including Rakel Lenora Fløttum and Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, alongside Sam Ashraf and Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim, with Ellen Dorrit Petersen among the adult cast. The brief does not specify which child plays which ability, and the performances are best described in general terms: naturalistic, unshowy, and carried largely without adult dialogue to lean on.
Context & significance
Made across Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, the film is a Nordic co-production directed by Eskil Vogt, working in a register that sits between quiet domestic drama and something closer to horror. Its single genre tag, drama, undersells how much tension the film builds through silence and suggestion rather than exposition. At just under two hours, it takes its time letting the premise unfold rather than rushing toward incident.
Watching The Innocents on Ktime
The Innocents streams on K-Time with a free account login, and this page can be read by anyone without signing in first. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a way into a film that relies heavily on tone and quiet performance, part of K-Time's Farsi-first approach for its diaspora audience.