Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Survival takes center stage in Prey (Kalahari), a 2024 American action-thriller that strands its leads in one of the world's harshest landscapes and dares them to make it out alive.
What is Prey (Kalahari) about?
A young couple runs a small Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert when an extremist militant group moves in and threatens them with death, forcing an abrupt escape. Their plane goes down during the flight out, leaving them stranded with no easy way to call for help and no clear path back to safety. From there, the story becomes a grinding fight against the desert itself, as the pair face down both armed pursuers and the desert's own predators while trying to reach anywhere resembling civilization. Director Dan Trachtenberg keeps the scope tight, focusing on physical endurance and split-second decisions rather than a sprawling cast or subplots.
Cast & crew
Amber Midthunder and Dakota Beavers carry most of the film as the stranded couple, with Dane DiLiegro and Stormee Kipp filling out the threats they encounter along the way. Michelle Thrush and Julian Black Antelope appear in supporting roles that widen the world beyond the two leads.
Context & significance
Prey (Kalahari) leans on its setting as much as its plot, using the desert's heat, distance, and isolation to raise the stakes of every decision the couple makes. The combination of an armed human threat with the dangers of the terrain itself gives the film a two-front survival structure that keeps tension high across a lean runtime.
Where & how to watch
Prey (Kalahari) is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the couple's desert ordeal plays out fully in Farsi for viewers who prefer it that way. Browsing this page costs nothing; watching the film requires only a K-Time account login, on a service built around Persian-language streaming for Iranians abroad.