Director: Ari Novak
A teenage surfer trades ocean waves for mountain slopes and finds an unlikely training partner in Powder Pup (2024), a family comedy about chasing a championship with four legs of extra help.
What is Powder Pup about?
Shaun has spent his whole life on a surfboard along the Southern California coast, so when his father decides the family is relocating to the mountains of Montana, the news feels like the end of everything he loves. Winter sports are foreign territory, the town is unfamiliar, and Shaun has no interest in trading salt water for snow. That changes once he crosses paths with a dog that turns out to have a genuine talent for snowboarding. What starts as a strange curiosity becomes a real partnership, and Shaun begins to see the mountain the way he once saw the ocean: as a place to test himself. As the annual regional snowboarding championship approaches, Shaun and his canine companion train together, stumble through setbacks, and slowly build the kind of trust that turns a reluctant new home into somewhere worth fighting for.
Cast & crew
Ashton Arbab leads as Shaun, supported by Rib Hillis, Maiah Wynne, Mike C. Manning, Morgan Harvill, and Taylor Daniel Allen. Director Ari Novak keeps the tone light and family-friendly throughout, favoring warm humor over anything edgy.
Context & significance
Powder Pup arrived in 2024 as part of a wave of live-action family films built around a young lead, a good-natured animal co-star, and a coming-of-age arc set against a competitive sporting backdrop. It sits comfortably alongside other adventure-comedy titles aimed at younger viewers and families looking for an easy, upbeat watch.
Where & how to watch
Powder Pup streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Farsi subtitles, making it an easy pick for family movie nights across the diaspora. The film page itself is free to browse; watching the film requires logging into a K-Time account first, and the interface is fully available in Farsi.