Director: Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau
Fly spends seven years alongside three couples for whom BASE jumping is not a hobby but a shared language, watching them balance the pull of the sky against the people waiting on the ground.
What is Fly about?
The documentary follows pairs bound together by an extreme sport that leaves almost no room for error: leaping from cliffs and structures with only a parachute and split-second timing between them and disaster. Norwegian jumper Espen Fadnes anchors much of the footage, but the film spreads its attention across partners who train together, argue together, and occasionally bury friends together. Rather than treating the sport as spectacle, the camera lingers on the quieter aftermath of each jump: the exhaustion, the relief, the unspoken math of how many jumps a relationship can survive. Years pass on screen in the space of a scene change, and the couples age, separate, reconcile, or start families while the mountains stay exactly where they are.
Cast & crew
Espen Fadnes appears as one of the sport's most recognizable practitioners, filmed alongside Amber Forte, Scotty Bob Morgan, and Julia Botelho Morgan, each representing a different stage of a BASE-jumping relationship, from early obsession to long-term negotiation with risk.
Context & significance
Directors Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau, known for embedding with subjects over long stretches, shot Fly across roughly seven years, giving the film a rare longitudinal view of a subculture usually reduced to viral jump clips. The Australian-American co-production leans on practitioner-shot footage as much as traditional crews, which is part of why the aerial sequences feel less like stunts and more like diary entries.
Where & how to watch
Fly is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, presented with a Farsi-friendly interface for diaspora viewers who want English-language documentaries alongside Persian titles in one place.