A struggling Santa school gets an unlikely lifeline when its newest pupil turns out to have misplaced his own memory of Christmas.
What is The Santa Class about?
The Santa Class follows Kate North, who runs a Santa school that is barely staying afloat, and her instructor Dan as they take on a new trainee: a man who appears to genuinely believe he is Santa Claus but cannot remember anything else about himself. As the holiday deadline closes in, Kate and Dan have to decide whether to treat him as just another student or as someone whose amnesia might be tied to the very magic their school is meant to teach. Their efforts to jog his memory double as an effort to save the school itself, since enrollment and funding are running out fast. Along the way the film leans into the found-family warmth typical of the genre, with the school's other instructors and students pulled into the search for answers.
About the cast
Kimberley Sustad leads as Kate opposite Benjamin Ayres as Dan, with Trevor Lerner, Eric Pollins, Al Miro, Ryan Beil, Carmel Amit and Gary Jones rounding out the school's staff and students.
Context & significance
Director Lucie Guest sets the film in the tightly scheduled world of a seasonal training program, using the countdown to Christmas Day as the engine for the plot rather than a single big twist. It is a Canadian production from 2024, part of a long tradition of Canadian-shot holiday movies built around small businesses in danger of closing. The film runs 90 minutes, a length well suited to a family movie night without stretching its central premise thin.
Watching The Santa Class on Ktime
The Santa Class is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, alongside the rest of the platform's holiday-season lineup for Persian-speaking audiences. K-Time's Farsi-language interface makes it easy for family members of any generation to browse and queue up seasonal titles like this one together.