A chance encounter with a derelict spacecraft flings two young explorers across an unimaginable span of time in Timescape, a Canadian-American science-fiction feature from 2022 directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas.
What is Timescape about?
When a pair of strangers stumble onto a spacecraft hidden away from the modern world, they trigger a journey that hurls them millions of years into Earth's distant past. Stranded far from anything familiar, the two must find a way to survive an unfamiliar landscape and make sense of the machine that brought them there, all while searching for a path back to their own era. The premise leans on classic time-travel anxieties: displacement, discovery, and the open question of whether the distant past can be understood, let alone changed, by two people who never asked to be there.
About the cast
Timescape is led by Lola Rossignol-Arts and Sofian Oleniuk as the two travelers thrown into deep time, with Patricia Summersett and Michel Perron rounding out the principal cast. Eric Davis, Melissa Carter and Nathaniel Amranian also appear. The film is a joint Canadian and American production, reflecting the cross-border co-productions common in genre filmmaking at this budget level.
Context & significance
Released in 2022, Timescape belongs to a long lineage of modestly budgeted science-fiction films built around a single striking idea — in this case, a spacecraft capable of unraveling time itself. Rather than leaning on sprawling world-building, the film keeps its focus tight on two characters navigating a hostile, ancient world, a structure that lets a smaller production stretch its resources into a convincing sense of scale. Its 80-minute runtime keeps the journey brisk rather than padded.
Watching Timescape on Ktime
Timescape streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, giving Farsi-speaking viewers in the diaspora an accessible way into its time-travel premise without needing to read subtitles. As with everything on K-Time, watching requires only a free account login — no separate purchase, no bundled add-ons to sort through. The platform's Farsi-first interface is built for households who want their entertainment presented in their own language from the first screen.