A community mural contest turns into an unexpected excuse for connection in Our Christmas Mural, a 2023 holiday comedy-drama from director Tara Johns. The setup is gentle and small-scale, the kind of seasonal story built around one town and one deadline.
What is Our Christmas Mural about?
Olivia, a single mother, finds herself signed up for a local mural competition without having agreed to it — her own mother enters her name behind her back. To finish the piece in time, she ends up working alongside Will, a teacher roped into the same project. What starts as an obligation neither of them chose turns into shared hours on scaffolding and paint, with the contest deadline pushing two reluctant partners toward each other.
About the cast
The ensemble is led by Alex Paxton-Beesley and Dan Jeannotte, joined by Sarah Booth, Tristan D. Lalla, Benjamin Ayres, Kathleen Laskey, Neil Crone and Viggo Hanvelt. It's a cast built for a TV-movie pace — familiar faces trading scenes in short, warm bursts across a compact 84-minute runtime rather than one performer carrying a long single arc.
Context & significance
Our Christmas Mural sits in the busy lane of North American holiday TV movies: a US production from 2023, directed by Tara Johns, built around a small cast, a single set piece — the mural itself — and a countdown to a contest deadline. Genre-wise it blends drama, comedy and romance without leaning hard into any one of them, the formula that keeps this style of film in steady seasonal rotation year after year. At 84 minutes, the film keeps its scope deliberately modest — one town, one competition, one shared project — rather than reaching for a larger ensemble or a multi-location plot, which is part of why this kind of seasonal feature travels so easily across streaming catalogs.
Watching Our Christmas Mural on Ktime
Our Christmas Mural streams on K-Time with a free account login — no separate purchase needed to start watching. K-Time's interface runs in Farsi for viewers who want a Persian-language menu and navigation around English-language films like this one, part of a catalog built for the Iranian diaspora.