Director: Andrew Baird
Set against the flat, unforgiving farmland of the American West, Sunrise (2024) is a slow-burning drama from director Andrew Baird that turns a marriage into a battleground of temptation and consequence.
What is Sunrise about?
A hardworking farmer's quiet routine is upended when a restless woman arrives from the city during a stretch of dry, difficult weeks on the land. What begins as idle conversation curdles into something far more dangerous, as she works to pull him away from the wife he married and the life he built. Andrew Baird stages the story with long silences and wide, empty frames, letting the tension between duty and desire simmer rather than explode. Guy Pearce anchors the piece as a figure caught between guilt and obsession, while the film's rural setting becomes almost a character of its own — isolated, watchful, unforgiving of mistakes. Rather than rushing toward its reckoning, Sunrise lingers on the small choices that lead a person toward ruin, asking what a marriage is worth once trust has been quietly poisoned.
Cast & crew
Guy Pearce leads the ensemble opposite Alex Pettyfer, with Olwen Fouéré, Crystal Yu, William Gao, Kurt Yaeger and Richard Pettyfer rounding out a cast built for a tight, character-driven chamber piece rather than a sprawling ensemble.
Context & significance
Sunrise is a joint UK–US production released in 2024, part of a wave of stripped-down, character-focused rural dramas that favor mood and performance over plot mechanics. Andrew Baird, known for atmospheric, slow-building storytelling, keeps the focus tight on a handful of people and the land around them, letting silence carry as much weight as dialogue.
Where & how to watch
Sunrise is available to watch on K-Time with Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow every quiet exchange without losing the film's careful pacing. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to sign in and start watching — this page itself is open to read for anyone browsing the catalog, in a fully Farsi-language interface built for the Iranian diaspora.