Director: Scott Walker
Six volunteers sign up for a Mars simulation and discover that the real danger isn't the red planet at all — it's each other, and the sealed environment they can't escape.
What is The Tank about?
The setup is simple: on April 26, 2012, a small crew steps into an Isolated Confined Environment built to mimic the psychological and physical strain of a journey to Mars. What begins as a controlled experiment in endurance quickly turns into something the organizers never planned for, as the pressures of confinement chip away at trust, judgment, and the group's ability to cooperate. Director Scott Walker frames the story as a slow-burn chamber piece, keeping the camera close to the crew's faces as small frictions harden into real conflict. Luciane Buchanan and Matt Whelan anchor an ensemble that also includes Jaya Beach-Robertson, Mark Mitchinson, Ascia Maybury, Holly Shervey, Graham Vincent, and Jack Barry, each playing a piece of a mission that unravels from the inside.
Cast & crew
Buchanan and Whelan carry most of the film's tension in tightly framed two-handers, while Mitchinson and Beach-Robertson supply the friction that turns a scientific exercise into a survival test. It's a small, disciplined ensemble built for a confined setting rather than a sprawling cast list.
Context & significance
Made in the United States, The Tank belongs to a run of recent dramas and thrillers that use isolation experiments — rather than the planet itself — as the real subject, asking what happens to people, not machines, when a mission goes wrong. Released in 2025, it sits closer to psychological drama than science-fiction spectacle.
Where & how to watch
The Tank streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the crew's unraveling in Farsi from the opening scene. Watching requires only a free K-Time account login — the film page itself is open to browse without one, and the interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora.