Paris is burning with unrest after a bitterly contested election, and in the chaos a small gang of thieves decides this is their moment to run. Frontier(s) is a 2023 horror film that turns a political crisis into the opening act of a much more intimate nightmare.
What is Frontier(s) about?
As riot and backlash spread through the city following the election of a hard-right candidate, a group of young thieves pulls off an armed robbery and makes a break for the border, hoping to disappear before the unrest catches up with them. Their escape route leads them to a remote countryside inn, run by a family with neo-Nazi sympathies, that offers exactly the kind of shelter desperate fugitives can't afford to question too closely. What starts as a place to lie low turns into a trap the group can't easily walk back out of, as the inn's owners prove far more dangerous than the political chaos they were fleeing.
About the cast
Jason Momoa headlines an ensemble led by Landon Liboiron, with Alun Armstrong, Jessica Matten, Zoe Boyle, Lyla Porter-Follows, Allan Hawco and Christian McKay filling out the inn's guests and hosts. The cast anchors a film that leans on close-quarters tension between a small group of characters rather than a large ensemble.
Context & significance
Directed by Guy Édoin, Frontier(s) is a straight horror feature that uses a backdrop of civil unrest and political extremism as scene-setting rather than commentary, channeling it into a survival story once the action moves to the isolated inn. At 108 minutes, the film builds from a chaotic city into a far more contained and claustrophobic back half.
Watching Frontier(s) on Ktime
Frontier(s) streams on K-Time with a free account login and carries Persian subtitles, making it accessible to Farsi-speaking viewers without a Persian dub track. It joins K-Time's horror catalogue, browsable through the platform's Farsi-first interface built for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.