Two centuries from now, staying alive forever is no longer the hard part — staying human is. "I Am Mortal" imagines a society that has engineered away death and asks what a handful of holdouts are willing to risk to keep the option of dying.
What is I Am Mortal about?
Genetic science has solved aging, and the result is a rigid order built around bodies that never fail. Against that backdrop, a small group refuses the arrangement, choosing risk and mortality over an engineered forever. Their resistance puts them on a collision course with the systems built to preserve the new status quo, in a future where the line between medicine and control has all but disappeared. The film treats immortality less as a gift than as a form of governance, and follows its rebels as they test how much of that governance can be pushed back.
About the cast
The ensemble is led by Sean Gunn alongside Lauren Lindsey Donzis, Nina Kiri, Abraham Lewis, Eloise Smyth, Jan Uddin and Nash Grier, a cast drawn largely from American television and streaming projects. Their collective résumé leans toward genre work, which suits a story that trades on speculative premise as much as character drama.
Context & significance
Director Tony Aloupis sets "I Am Mortal" in the same speculative-fiction lineage as other near-future rebellion stories, but narrows its focus to a single question — what happens to a society once its biggest fear, death, is engineered out of the equation. Made in the United States, the film keeps its scale intentionally small, favoring a contained cast and setting over sprawling world-building, which lets the central idea carry the runtime.
Watching I Am Mortal on Ktime
"I Am Mortal" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably for viewers who prefer either. The film is free to browse and read about on the page; watching it just needs a K-Time account login, no payment card required to look around first. K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for the diaspora audience to find genre titles like this one alongside the rest of the catalogue.