Director: Hans Block
What happens when a startup lets you text back with someone who has already died? Eternal You (2024), a German documentary directed by Hans Block, follows that question with Persian dubbing and subtitles on K-Time.
What is Eternal You about?
Grief tech companies now offer a strange bargain: feed a deceased loved one's messages, voice recordings, and photos into an AI system, and receive a chatbot or avatar that talks back in something resembling their voice. The documentary follows people who have tried this — a widow messaging her late husband, a young man rebuilding his mother in an app — watching their comfort curdle into confusion about what, exactly, they are talking to. Interviews with the engineers building these products sit alongside the users testing them, exposing the gap between a pitch deck's promise of closure and the unsettling reality of a machine improvising as the dead.
Cast & crew
Hans Block, who previously co-directed the widely discussed content-moderation documentary The Cleaners, directs Eternal You and structures it around the people who agreed to test grief-AI products on camera rather than industry spokespeople alone. The film keeps its focus on their reactions — hope, unease, and eventually doubt — rather than dramatizing the technology itself.
Context & significance
Grief and memory are subjects that translate across cultures without much friction, and Eternal You's questions about what we owe the dead, and what a machine can and can't replace, land the same way in Farsi as they do in the original German and English interviews. With both Persian dubbing and subtitles available, K-Time viewers can choose whichever format keeps the film's careful, often quiet pacing intact.
Where & how to watch
Eternal You is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can pick whichever fits how they watch. The platform is built around a Farsi-language experience for Iranian audiences abroad, working across phones, smart TVs, tablets, and desktop browsers. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to log in and start watching; there is no VPN requirement and no region restriction to work around, and playback picks up where you left off on any device.