Director: Bernardo Britto
A woman convinced she can rewrite her own life story sets out to crack the mechanics of time travel in Omni Loop, a 2024 science-fiction drama from director Bernardo Britto.
What is Omni Loop about?
Living in Miami, Florida, a woman facing an impossible deadline becomes fixated on an idea most people would dismiss outright: that with enough determination, she can solve the puzzle of time travel and use it to become the person she always meant to be. Mary-Louise Parker plays the central figure whose scientific obsession collides with the messier realities of family, regret, and the limits of what a single choice can undo. Ayo Edebiri joins the story as a student pulled into her orbit, offering a different generational lens on the same questions about second chances. The film moves between clinical scientific reasoning and something closer to memory and grief, using its loop premise less as an action device and more as a way of examining what people would actually change if given the chance, and what they would leave untouched.
Cast & crew
Mary-Louise Parker carries the film's emotional weight as a woman whose relationship to time and mortality is anything but ordinary, balancing scientific rigor with quieter, more personal stakes. Ayo Edebiri brings a grounded curiosity to her role, acting as both a sounding board and a foil for the older woman's theories. Carlos Jacott, Hannah Pearl Utt, and the rest of the supporting cast fill out a world where the fantastical premise stays tethered to recognizably human relationships.
Context & significance
Omni Loop premiered as part of the 2024 festival circuit before reaching wider audiences, part of a wave of low-budget science-fiction dramas that use speculative premises to explore mortality and regret rather than spectacle. Its approach favors intimate, character-driven scenes over large-scale effects, placing it closer to indie drama than blockbuster sci-fi.
Where & how to watch
Omni Loop streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Persian subtitles available, making its dialogue-heavy, idea-driven story easy to follow for Persian-speaking audiences. Reading this page requires nothing, but watching the film means logging into a K-Time account, a platform shaped around the viewing habits of the Iranian diaspora.