Beast Race sets its action in a future Rio de Janeiro reshaped by conflict, following a resistance leader forced onto a very different kind of battlefield: a parkour-inspired competition where losing carries a real cost. Three credited directors, including Fernando Meirelles, share the film's action-sci-fi instincts.
What is Beast Race about?
The story centers on a young leader of an underground resistance movement who enters a brutal, parkour-driven competition after his sister's life is put on the line. Staged across a reimagined Rio skyline, the contest becomes both a physical gauntlet and a proxy for the wider power struggle the resistance is fighting. As the competition escalates, the film uses its science-fiction setting to sharpen the stakes of an otherwise straightforward rescue mission, leaning on movement and geography as much as dialogue to carry the tension.
About the cast
Matheus Abreu leads as the resistance figure forced into the competition, with Rodrigo Santoro, Isis Valverde, Bruno Gagliasso, Grazi Massafera, Seu Jorge, João Guilherme Ávila and Silvero Pereira filling out a large ensemble drawn from established Brazilian film and television. The cast's range gives the competition's various factions and onlookers distinct footing rather than reducing them to background for the lead's mission.
Context & significance
Beast Race pairs Brazilian genre filmmaking's growing reach with a premise built around parkour, a discipline whose real-world roots in urban Rio give the fictional competition a physical grounding sci-fi action doesn't always bother with. Fernando Meirelles' involvement, alongside co-directors Rodrigo Pesavento and Ernesto Solis, signals a production aiming past pure spectacle toward the social tension undergirding its future-Rio setting, and the 124-minute runtime gives the competition room to build across multiple rounds.
Watching Beast Race on Ktime
Beast Race streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow its action either dubbed or subtitled. The film's page is open to browse without signing in; watching it needs only a quick, free K-Time account, built around Farsi-first streaming for Iranian audiences wherever they've settled.