"My Father's Dragon," a 2022 animated family adventure directed by Nora Twomey, follows a boy's dangerous search for a remote island, voiced by a cast led by Jacob Tremblay and Gaten Matarazzo.
What is My Father's Dragon about?
The story follows a young boy who sets out toward a remote island, facing a string of dangers along the way in pursuit of something he's determined to find. Blending adventure, comedy, drama, and fantasy inside a family-friendly frame, the film builds its world through animation rather than live-action spectacle, using the island journey to stage each new obstacle as a self-contained challenge. It's a quest story at heart — one shaped less by plot mechanics and more by the boy's persistence across a landscape built to test him.
About the cast
The voice cast is led by Jacob Tremblay and Gaten Matarazzo, joined by Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O'Dowd, Judy Greer, and Alan Cumming — a lineup spanning several generations of screen and voice work brought together for a single animated feature.
Context & significance
Directed by Nora Twomey, "My Father's Dragon" is an Irish-American co-production that sits inside a run of animated family films built around a single-minded quest structure — a young protagonist, a distant goal, and a series of encounters standing in for a larger coming-of-age arc. Its mix of adventure, comedy, and fantasy genres keeps it flexible for family viewing across ages, and its 2022 release places it among a wave of animated features made for streaming rather than theatrical release. The voice cast draws performers from several different film traditions, which gives the finished feature an unusually broad register for a single 99-minute runtime, moving between comic set pieces and quieter, more dramatic beats without settling into either mode for long.
Watching My Father's Dragon on Ktime
"My Father's Dragon" is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so families can watch it with Farsi audio or with the original voice cast and Farsi text on screen. This page can be read without an account; starting playback needs a free K-Time login, part of how the platform keeps its Farsi-language library organized for the Iranian diaspora it's built for.