Multiverse is a 2021 Canadian science-fiction drama directed by Gaurav Seth, in which a quantum physics experiment splits four students' sense of self along parallel lines.
What is Multiverse about?
Four gifted university students push a quantum physics experiment further than their coursework ever intended. Instead of clean data, the experiment opens a door onto a parallel existence that is entangled with their own, and the group soon has to reckon with versions of themselves they never expected to meet. What starts as a scientific puzzle becomes an intimate ordeal: each of them is forced to ask who they really are, which memories belong to them, and whether the world around them can still be trusted. Running a compact ninety minutes, the film keeps its focus on the four leads and the unsettling questions the experiment raises rather than on spectacle.
About the cast
The ensemble is led by Paloma Kwiatkowski, Munro Chambers, Marlee Matlin, Robert Naylor and Sandra Mae Frank. Matlin is the most widely recognised name in the group, and her presence lends weight to a small-scale production, while Kwiatkowski, Chambers, Naylor and Frank carry the student-centred story between them. Gaurav Seth directs.
Context & significance
Parallel-universe stories have long been a staple of science fiction, but Multiverse belongs to a leaner branch of the genre: the low-budget, character-first thriller that treats a big scientific idea as a pressure test for identity rather than an excuse for effects. Canada has produced a steady stream of these intimate genre films, and this one fits that mould, folding themes of doubt, doubling and self-recognition into a drama built around a handful of people in a handful of rooms. Its reception on release was modest, and it is best approached as a thoughtful small film rather than a blockbuster. Viewers drawn to speculative drama that asks philosophical questions about consciousness and choice will find the premise the main attraction.
Watching Multiverse on Ktime
Multiverse streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can choose the version that suits you. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the page itself is open to read. The service is built for the Iranian diaspora, with a Farsi interface and a catalogue organised around Persian-language viewing.