Director: Egidio Coccimiglio
What begins as a routine backcountry hike turns into a fight for survival in Cascade, a tense 2023 Canadian thriller.
What is Cascade about?
A group of teenagers heads into the wilderness for what should be an ordinary weekend hike, only to stumble on the wreckage of a small plane that was never supposed to be found. The discovery pulls them into the orbit of a group tied to the crash, and one girl in particular has to think faster and move smarter than anyone around her to keep her friends alive. As the trip curdles from scenic to dangerous, the isolation that made the hike appealing becomes the very thing working against them, with no easy way to call for help and no one who knows where they are. The film builds its tension through terrain and timing rather than gore, tracking how ordinary teenagers improvise against people who are used to controlling every situation they walk into.
Cast & crew
Sara Waisglass leads the ensemble as the hiker forced to outthink her pursuers, with Joel Oulette and Josh Cruddas rounding out the friend group caught in the same crisis. Stephen Kalyn and Sadie Laflamme-Snow appear on the other side of the conflict, giving the film's threat a face rather than leaving it abstract. Director Egidio Coccimiglio keeps the cast small and the setting remote, which lets the performances carry most of the pressure.
Context & significance
Cascade was shot on location amid genuine wilderness terrain, and that choice does a lot of work for a story built around isolation and improvisation. Released in 2023, it sits within a steady lineage of lean, outdoors-set thrillers that trade large budgets for tight geography and a small cast under pressure. Canadian backcountry stands in for the kind of remote setting where a single wrong turn compounds every other problem the characters face.
Where & how to watch
Cascade streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a full way to follow its tense pacing in their own language. The page itself, including this overview, is free to read without an account. Watching the film requires logging into K-Time, a platform built with Farsi menus and search for the Iranian diaspora.