Nightfire is a compact American action thriller from 2020, directed by Brando Benetton and running about 43 minutes. It follows a covert retrieval job that stops going to plan once an unforeseen person is drawn into the operation.
What is Nightfire about?
A pair of American operatives take on a contract with a narrow objective: recover a set of military chips that hold classified data. The assignment looks straightforward on paper, a matter of getting in, securing the hardware and getting out. That calculation changes when a political prisoner, someone the agents had not accounted for, becomes part of the situation. With the original plan no longer holding, the two must decide how to proceed while the pressure of the mission keeps building. The story stays tightly focused on the job itself, the agents' shifting choices and the complications that follow from one unexpected presence.
About the cast
The ensemble, listed here in the order given in the catalogue, includes Dylan Baker, Lorenzo Pisoni, Bradley Stryker, Greg Hadley, Becky Ann Baker, Francesco Pannofino, Michael Pantozzi and Shaylyn Gibson. With a cast of eight named performers, the film spreads its story across the two agents, the people around the mission and the figure who disrupts it. Brando Benetton directs.
Context & significance
Nightfire sits within the action-thriller tradition of the retrieval mission: a small team, a clearly defined objective, and a variable that upsets the plan. Stories built this way tend to rely on momentum and on how characters react under pressure rather than on large-scale set pieces, and a runtime of roughly three quarters of an hour keeps the structure lean. The film is a United States production released in 2020. Its political element, the presence of a prisoner caught up in the operation, functions as part of the plot's setup rather than as commentary on any real-world event or government. The genre labels in the catalogue are action and thriller.
Watching Nightfire on Ktime
Nightfire is available to stream on K-Time, a Persian-focused service built for the Iranian diaspora with a Farsi interface. Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are available, so viewers can choose to hear the film in Farsi or follow the original English audio with Persian text. Reading this page is free; watching requires signing in with a K-Time account.