Director: Matthew Loren Oates
Cast: Lulu Wilson, Omari Hardwick, Paul Schneider, Trae Romano, Wrenn Schmidt
Xeno is a 2025 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Matthew Loren Oates, following a resourceful teenage girl who discovers a crashed alien in the desert and becomes its unlikely protector. Blending creature-feature suspense with coming-of-age heart, it is now streaming on K-Time with full Persian dubbing.
What is Xeno about?
Sixteen-year-old Zara has always been drawn to the empty desert stretching beyond her family's property — it is where she feels most herself. One night, a strange impact shakes the ground and she tracks the source to a smoldering crater housing something very much alive. The creature inside is nothing like the benign visitors of science-fiction lore: it is wounded, volatile, and clearly being hunted. When federal agents begin combing the region, Zara is forced to decide how far she will go to shield a being she barely understands. The film sets up a tense three-way pull between the girl's loyalty, the government's agenda, and the alien's own mysterious purpose — without ever revealing which side truly has something to hide.
Cast & crew
Director Matthew Loren Oates brings a grounded, landscape-driven sensibility to the material. Lulu Wilson anchors the film as the teenage lead, while Omari Hardwick and Paul Schneider lend authority to the adult supporting roles. Trae Romano, Wrenn Schmidt, Josh Cooke, Ron Roggé, and Garrett Vander Leun round out an ensemble that keeps the drama firmly human even when the subject matter turns extraterrestrial.
Context & significance
For Iranian diaspora viewers — many of whom grew up on Hollywood science-fiction classics dubbed into Persian — Xeno arrives as a comfortable genre entry with an accessible emotional core: a young person standing up for an outsider against a powerful, opaque authority. That dynamic resonates particularly well with audiences who have personal experience navigating between two worlds. The film is set in wide American desert landscapes that recall classic road-and-frontier storytelling, and its creature-feature tension is measured enough for family viewing while holding genuine suspense for older audiences. Available with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, it is one of the easier foreign titles to share across generations in a single household.
Where & how to watch
Xeno is available on K-Time right now with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles included. Stream it on the web, on your TV دستگاه, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, and no extra download needed. Start or cancel anytime.