Director: Daniel Fahre
Norwegian action-thriller Battle of the Drones (originally titled Battle of Oslo) throws a crew of hardened mercenaries into a fight against an army of machines built by the very organization that betrayed them.
What is Battle of the Drones about?
When a covert operation goes sideways, a small unit of contract soldiers discovers that the shadowy outfit paying them has been arming a fleet of combat robots for its own ends. Betrayed and hunted, the mercenaries regroup and turn their tactical training against their former employer. What starts as a straightforward extraction job becomes a running battle through industrial compounds and city streets, with drones and armored units closing in from every direction. The group has to weigh old grudges against new alliances as members question who can still be trusted once the money stops flowing. Director Daniel Fahre keeps the pace brisk, favoring practical set pieces and hardware-heavy confrontations over slow-burn drama, and the Norwegian setting gives the production a colder, more grounded look than typical genre fare from bigger studios.
Cast & crew
The ensemble is led by Bjørn Sundquist and Andrea Berntzen, with Fridtjov Såheim, Eldar Skar, Håvard Bakke, Elias Holmen Sørensen, Jon Øigarden, and Terje Strømdahl rounding out the mercenary unit and the organization hunting them.
Context & significance
Released in 2025 and running 93 minutes, Battle of the Drones is a Norwegian production that leans into the country's growing genre-film output, pairing local performers with an action-and-sci-fi premise built around robotic combatants rather than purely human adversaries.
Where & how to watch
Battle of the Drones streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, in a Farsi-first interface built for the Iranian diaspora. The page is free to read; watching the film requires logging into a K-Time account.