Director: Nacho Vigalondo

Cast: Henry Golding, Beatrice Grannò, Aura Garrido, Rubén Ochandiano, Nathalie Poza

Daniela Forever is a 2025 Drama-Romance-Sci-Fi film directed by Nacho Vigalondo, starring Henry Golding as a grieving man who enters a cutting-edge sleep study that lets him reconstruct an entire shared life with the woman he lost — one lucid dream at a time.

What is Daniela Forever about?

Nicolas cannot accept that Daniela is gone. When a secretive pharmaceutical trial offers participants the chance to shape their own dreams with unusual precision, he signs up, drawn by the possibility of spending nights beside the woman he loved. Inside these manufactured dreams he designs a world where Daniela never died — where they travel, argue, make up, and grow old together. But the boundary between the dreamscape and his waking life begins to dissolve. His therapist and friends watch him withdraw; the trial coordinators grow concerned. What begins as an act of love gradually reveals itself as something more complicated — grief, control, and the question of whether you can truly love a version of someone that you yourself have built.

Cast & crew

Henry Golding, best known for Crazy Rich Asians, brings quiet restraint to Nicolas, conveying loss through stillness rather than outburst. Beatrice Grannò plays Daniela with warmth and an undercurrent of unknowability that suits the film's central ambiguity. Director Nacho Vigalondo, the Spanish filmmaker behind Colossal and Timecrimes, once again uses genre scaffolding to explore deeply human emotional territory.

Context & significance

For Persian-speaking diaspora viewers, Daniela Forever touches on themes that resonate across cultures — the impossibility of letting go, the way grief rewires memory, and the seductive comfort of imagined reunion. The film draws on a European art-house sensibility (co-produced across Belgium, Spain, Finland, and the United States) while remaining emotionally accessible. It is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, making the nuanced dialogue and the film's quieter emotional beats fully accessible to Farsi-speaking audiences who prefer to watch international cinema in their own language without relying on a dubbed track.

Where & how to watch

Daniela Forever is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.