Director: Adam Stern
Grief rarely stays where you put it, and in "Levels" it starts bending the shape of reality itself once a grieving man refuses to accept what he saw.
What is Levels about?
The film opens on an act of violence that should end the story before it begins: a man watches his girlfriend killed in front of him, and every ordinary rule about moving forward assumes he simply has to live with that. Instead he starts pulling at the edges of what happened, and the more he pushes, the less stable the world around him becomes. Locations repeat with small differences, conversations loop back on themselves, and the line between memory and something closer to a controlled experiment starts to blur. The film uses that instability as its engine, turning a revenge premise into a puzzle about how far someone will warp their own perception of reality to get an answer they can live with. By the time the mechanics behind the "levels" become clear, the story has quietly shifted from a chase for truth to a question about what truth even costs the person chasing it.
Cast & crew
Cara Gee and Peter Mooney lead the cast as the film tracks its central investigation, with genre-familiar faces Aaron Abrams, David Hewlett, and Amanda Tapping filling out the supporting roles. Director Adam Stern, a visual-effects veteran making his feature debut, leans on the ensemble's grounded performances to keep the film's reality-bending structure legible rather than disorienting.
Context & significance
A 2024 Canadian production, "Levels" sits in a small-budget science-fiction tradition that trades spectacle for structural tricks, building its mystery out of repetition and perspective rather than large-scale effects. Its Canadian setting and production pedigree, including a director whose background is in effects work on bigger studio films, show through in how confidently the movie handles its low-budget constraints.
Where & how to watch
"Levels" is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, part of a catalog built specifically for Farsi-speaking audiences in the diaspora. Browsing the film's page costs nothing; only starting playback requires a free K-Time account.