Four different first loves, four different corners of the world — Like the First Time treats the coming-of-age story as something that repeats with variations rather than a single formula.
What is Like The First Time about?
Structured as an anthology, the film moves between separate stories of young people discovering romantic feeling for what feels like the very first time. Rather than following one couple across a beginning-middle-end arc, it cuts between settings and casts, letting each segment stand as its own small portrait of nervousness, attraction and the particular awkwardness of not yet knowing how to say what you mean. The throughline is emotional rather than narrative: every story circles the same rush of uncertainty that comes with a first real attachment, whether it plays out as comedy, heartbreak or something quieter than either. Taken together the segments work like variations on a theme, comparing how similar feelings look when filtered through different lives, different ages and different cultural settings.
About the cast
The anthology draws its cast from across its production countries, including Alexandra Wehr, Lim Chae-Yeon and Lim Ji-Ho, with each performer anchoring one strand of the wider story rather than sharing a single continuous plot.
Context & significance
Like the First Time is an unusually wide co-production, credited to filmmakers and financing across Chile, the United States, South Korea, Canada and Brazil, reflecting how the anthology format lets separate teams contribute self-contained segments to one shared release. That structure has become more common in coming-of-age filmmaking as a way to put multiple cultural perspectives on the same universal subject inside a single runtime, rather than committing an entire feature to one country's version of the story.
Watching Like The First Time on Ktime
K-Time carries Like the First Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so each segment plays back in Farsi regardless of its original shooting language. All that is needed to watch is a free K-Time account; browsing the film's page and reading about it requires no login at all, and the platform's Farsi-first design keeps romance and coming-of-age titles like this one easy to find for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.