Director: Andrew Balek, Joe Bland
By the time a wrecked spacecraft slams into Earth, its pilot has already lost everything, including his own memory, leaving Colonials to build its fight for survival around a hero who barely knows which side he is on.
What is Colonials about?
Colonials sends a space colonist from Mars into a sudden ambush by a Moon-based civilization, and the crash that follows strips him of his memory just as the stakes on Earth are at their highest. Waking up with no clear sense of who he was, he falls in with a resistance movement fighting to hold off a coming wave meant to wipe out humanity. The film follows a familiar science-fiction action shape: a fractured hero, a scrappy band of fighters, and an enemy force with the numbers advantage, but it plays that framework straight, using the colonist's amnesia as a way to slowly reveal the wider conflict alongside him. Expect practical set pieces, low-orbit stakes, and a lean 80-minute runtime built for a quick action fix rather than a sprawling space opera.
Cast & crew
Greg Kriek stars as the amnesiac colonist, with Sean Kanan, Daniel Roebuck, Louise Barnes, Jamie Bernadette, Jon Provost, Allie Ayers, and Jennifer Willis rounding out the resistance and its allies, directed by Andrew Balek and Joe Bland.
Context & significance
A 2023 American production, Colonials fits into the long-running lineage of independent science-fiction action films that pit a small human resistance against a technologically superior off-world force, a setup that stretches back through decades of low-budget space cinema. It leans into that tradition's practicality, favoring compact action staging and a straightforward invasion premise over dense world-building, which keeps its focus squarely on the colonist's fight to reclaim both his memory and his planet.
Where & how to watch
Colonials is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, on a platform designed around a Farsi-language interface for Persian-speaking audiences. The film includes a Persian dub, so viewers can watch this science-fiction action title in Farsi as part of K-Time's broader genre catalog.