In Slumberland, a girl who has just lost her father discovers she can step directly into other people's dreams, and enlists a towering half-man, half-monster guide to help her track him down inside that shared dreamscape. Francis Lawrence directs the 2022 adventure fantasy, which leans on a series of dream-logic set pieces rather than a single continuous location.
What is Slumberland about?
Each dream the girl enters works by its own rules, and the film uses that structure to move between wildly different visual set pieces while keeping the search for her father as the throughline connecting them. The story balances large-scale fantasy spectacle with a smaller, more personal grief narrative underneath it, using the dream setting as a way to externalize what the girl is actually processing after her father's disappearance. Runtime comes in at 117 minutes, giving the film room to move through several distinct dream environments before resolving the search. The contrast between a small, ordinary waking world and an oversized fantastical one after it carries most of the film's visual variety.
About the cast
Jason Momoa plays the girl's guide through the dreamscape, with Marlow Barkley as the girl herself. Kyle Chandler, Chris O'Dowd, Weruche Opia, India de Beaufort, and Humberly Gonzalez round out the supporting cast across the waking-world and dream-world sections of the story. The pairing of Momoa's larger-than-life presence with Barkley's more grounded performance is the film's central dynamic.
Context & significance
Francis Lawrence, working in the adventure-fantasy space, builds Slumberland around visual variety rather than a single fixed setting, moving the story through adventure, fantasy, and sci-fi elements across its dream sequences. The film is a United States production and sits closer to family adventure than to darker fantasy, keeping its emotional core - a child processing loss - legible even as the visuals shift from one dream to the next.
Watching Slumberland on Ktime
Slumberland streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the platform's Farsi interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking families to find alongside other adventure and fantasy titles. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available for this title, so viewers can choose the format that works best for family viewing.