Director: Claudio Fäh
A transatlantic flight turns into a fight for survival in No Way Up, Claudio Fäh's 2024 disaster thriller that strands its characters somewhere between the sky and the ocean floor.
What is No Way Up about?
When the passenger plane they are traveling on goes down over the Pacific, a group of strangers with little in common find themselves trapped together in a sinking fuselage. As water rises and the wreck drifts toward deeper, darker parts of the ocean, old tensions and hidden histories among the survivors surface just as fast as the physical dangers do. With breathable air running low and the pressure of the deep sea closing in from every side, the group has to decide how far each of them is willing to go, and who they are willing to trust, to make it back to the surface alive.
Cast & crew
Sophie McIntosh leads the ensemble as one of the crash survivors, alongside Will Attenborough, Jeremias Amoore, and Manuel Pacific. Grace Nettle, Phyllis Logan, Colm Meaney, and James Carroll Jordan round out a cast whose characters, thrown together by circumstance, carry very different reasons for wanting to survive the wreck.
Context & significance
Produced in the United Kingdom and released in 2024, No Way Up sits within the confined-space survival thriller tradition, using the sinking fuselage as a pressure cooker for its characters rather than relying on large-scale spectacle. Director Claudio Fäh keeps the 90-minute runtime tight and forward-moving, and the film currently sits at a 4.6 rating on IMDb, reflecting its reputation as a lean, high-concept genre entry rather than a prestige drama.
Where & how to watch
No Way Up is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, and its page can be read without logging in first. Watching the film itself only requires a free K-Time account, and the platform's Farsi-language interface is designed to make the whole viewing experience feel native for Persian-speaking audiences.