Separate lives collide across a near-future Earth in Warning, a sci-fi thriller assembled from interlocking short stories rather than one linear plot.
What is Warning about?
Agata Alexander's film threads together a set of seemingly unconnected characters, each facing loneliness, mortality, or the search for meaning in a world quietly reshaped by looming catastrophe. Rather than following a single hero through a single crisis, the film jumps between these separate stories, letting small, human moments, a strained relationship, a private fear, an unresolved goodbye, sit alongside the larger unease of a planet under strain. The interweaving structure means answers arrive unevenly: some threads resolve, others are left as fragments, mirroring how disconnected these lives actually are from one another until circumstance forces them together. It is less concerned with spectacle than with the accumulated weight of ordinary anxiety in an extraordinary setting.
About the cast
The ensemble includes Alex Pettyfer, Alice Eve, Annabel Mullion, Annabelle Wallis, Benedict Samuel, Charlotte Le Bon, Garance Marillier, and Kylie Bunbury, spread across the film's separate storylines. With this many characters and threads to track, the cast leans on economy, each actor sketches a life in limited screen time rather than building toward one shared climax.
Context & significance
Warning was shot across Canada, the United States, and Poland, a co-production spread reflected in its scattered, multi-strand structure. Its near-future setting functions less as hard science fiction and more as a backdrop for the human stories it wants to tell, with the speculative elements kept deliberately understated rather than explained in detail. The film sits closer to a mood piece than a plot-driven thriller, using its genre trappings to frame ordinary fears about connection and time running out rather than to deliver conventional set-piece tension.
Watching Warning on Ktime
Warning is available on K-Time with a free account login, and viewers can choose either the Persian dub or Persian subtitles depending on preference. That dual option makes the film easy to follow for Farsi-speaking audiences who want the full interwoven structure without missing a thread.