When a family's android companion suddenly stops working, the search for a fix becomes a search for something harder to name.
What is After Yang about?
Yang was bought as a companion for a young girl adopted from China, meant to keep her connected to a culture her parents couldn't fully share. When he shuts down without warning, her father Jake sets out to get him repaired, only to find that Yang's inner workings — recorded memories, small gestures, private moments — reveal a family life he had stopped paying close attention to. As Jake follows the trail of Yang's stored recollections, the film turns from a repair errand into something closer to grief, forcing him to reckon with his marriage and his daughter's sense of belonging.
About the cast
Colin Farrell leads the ensemble, joined by Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Haley Lu Richardson, Sarita Choudhury, Clifton Collins Jr. and Ritchie Coster. The cast plays it low-key throughout, favoring stillness and small reactions over big emotional swings, which suits a story more interested in what goes unsaid between people than in dramatic confrontation.
Context & significance
Director Kogonada made his name with meticulous, unhurried visual storytelling, and After Yang carries that same patience into science fiction — its future is sketched through small domestic details rather than spectacle. The film sits in the same conversation as other quiet sci-fi dramas about memory and artificial companionship, using its android premise to ask plain questions about what people preserve of each other and what they let slip. At 96 minutes it moves gently, more interested in mood than plot mechanics.
Watching After Yang on Ktime
After Yang streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it's easy to watch with the whole family regardless of English fluency. Access just needs a free K-Time account login — no extra steps beyond that. The Farsi-first experience, from menus to subtitle timing, is built for Persian-speaking households watching together.