An old fishing boat vanishes for thirty years, then reappears with two new deckhands aboard — and nothing about the world they return to matches what they left in Rose of Nevada.
What is Rose of Nevada about?
Mark Jenkin directs this British drama, blending science fiction, mystery and fantasy around a vessel with an impossible history: it disappeared three decades ago and has now resurfaced as if no time had passed at all. Two men, desperate enough for work to overlook the boat's strange reputation, sign on for a voyage aboard it. What follows unsettles the film's grounded, salt-worn fishing-village atmosphere with something closer to dread — because when the two return from sea, the town, the people in it, and their own place within it no longer line up with memory. The 2026 film runs 114 minutes and leans on tone and atmosphere rather than exposition to carry its central mystery. George MacKay and Callum Turner take the central roles as the two men, with Yana Penrose, Rosalind Eleazar, Francis Magee, Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine and Adrian Rawlins filling out the coastal community around them.
About the cast
MacKay and Turner anchor the film as the two deckhands whose voyage on the reappeared boat becomes the story's turning point, with Penrose and Eleazar in key supporting roles. Magee, Rowe, Woodvine and Rawlins fill out a village ensemble that grounds the film's uncanny premise in a recognizable working coastal community.
Context & significance
Jenkin's reputation for tactile, texture-driven filmmaking rooted in British coastal life shapes a project that folds genre elements — mystery, fantasy, science fiction — into what looks at first like straightforward social realism. The result sits in a British tradition of folk-inflected strange fiction, where an ordinary fishing community becomes the setting for something that resists easy explanation.
Watching Rose of Nevada on Ktime
Rose of Nevada streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, bringing this British genre drama to Farsi-speaking audiences. A free K-Time account is all that's required to watch, and the platform's Farsi-language interface is designed for Iranian viewers around the world.