A generation-ship crew raised for obedience starts questioning everything it was taught in this 2021 science-fiction thriller.

What is Voyagers about?

A group of young people, engineered from birth for intelligence and compliance, are sent on a decades-long voyage to reach a habitable planet for a dying Earth. With no adults aboard and a mission timeline stretching far beyond their own lives, cracks form in the discipline they were raised on the moment they discover something the mission's planners kept hidden from them. What starts as quiet rule-breaking accelerates into open conflict over who actually controls the ship, as competing instincts for order and freedom pull the crew apart just as they most need each other.

About the cast

Tye Sheridan and Lily-Rose Depp play two of the ship's original crew members, with Colin Farrell appearing as an adult mission figure connected to their upbringing. Fionn Whitehead, Viveik Kalra, Archie Madekwe, Chanté Adams, and Lou Llobell fill out the young ensemble, giving the film a genuinely group-driven cast rather than a single lead carrying the story alone.

Context & significance

Director Neil Burger builds the film around the closed, pressurized environment of a spacecraft with no adult authority once the mission is underway, a setup that turns everyday shipboard routines — meals, watch shifts, medication — into sources of tension. The premise draws on a long line of stories about isolated communities left to govern themselves, transplanted here into a hard science-fiction frame focused on genetics, behavior, and the fragility of the rules a closed society agrees to live by.

Watching Voyagers on Ktime

Voyagers is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, letting viewers choose Farsi audio or the original English track. The page itself is free to browse for anyone; watching the film just requires a free K-Time account login, part of the platform's ongoing focus on Farsi-first viewing for Persian-speaking audiences.