Director: Lisandro Alonso
Viggo Mortensen leads Lisandro Alonso's Eureka, a sprawling 2024 drama that follows a father's search for his daughter across a landscape shaped by displacement and time.
What is Eureka about?
Murphy's daughter has been taken by Randall, an outlaw operating outside any law Murphy recognizes, and the film tracks the uneasy, often disorienting path he takes to find her. Rather than moving in a straight line, Eureka drifts between settings and eras, letting Murphy's search open onto other lives and other struggles that echo his own. The result is less a conventional rescue story than a meditation built around one man's stubborn refusal to stop looking, even as the ground beneath the search keeps shifting.
Cast & crew
Viggo Mortensen plays Murphy opposite Chiara Mastroianni, with Alaina Clifford, Sadie Lapontie, Viilbjørk Malling Agger, Adanilo, Márcio Mariante, and Luísa Cruz rounding out an international ensemble spread across the film's shifting locations and timelines, each performer anchoring a different fragment of the larger story.
Context & significance
A co-production spanning Argentina, France, Germany, Mexico, and Portugal, Eureka arrived in 2024 as director Lisandro Alonso's first feature in nearly a decade, running close to two and a half hours and moving deliberately, in keeping with his earlier, slower-paced work. The film's shifting geography and long, patient scenes reward viewers willing to sit with ambiguity rather than expect a tidy resolution, which sets it apart from most missing-person thrillers.
Where & how to watch
Eureka is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, part of a library curated for Farsi-speaking audiences in the diaspora. Watching requires signing in with a free K-Time account, though this page can be read by anyone without logging in first, and the platform's Farsi interface makes it easy to find and queue slower, festival-style dramas like this one alongside more mainstream titles.