Director: Atakan Şatıroğlu
A remarried father moves his two young daughters to a remote village hoping for a fresh start, but Lumme suggests the countryside has its own long memory, and it is hungry.
What is Lumme about?
The move is meant to be simple: new house, new wife, a chance to leave old grief behind. Instead the family's arrival stirs something that has apparently been waiting for exactly this kind of household, small children, a step-parent still finding her footing, a village that keeps its distance and its secrets. Strange sounds start at night, familiar rooms feel subtly wrong in daylight, and the daughters begin acting toward each other and their new mother in ways that unsettle rather than comfort. Lumme takes its time establishing the texture of rural isolation before letting the supernatural threat show itself directly, favoring dread that builds through small domestic details over sudden shocks. The village setting does double duty, isolating the family from any outside help while giving the folklore at the story's center room to feel rooted rather than imported.
Cast & crew
Berkay Berkman plays the father with a controlled anxiety that never tips into melodrama, a man trying to hold a fragile new family together while sensing something is wrong before he can name it. Feriştah Senem Yıldırım brings warmth and wariness in equal measure to the stepmother role, while young performers Defne Polat and Sudenaz Soysal handle the film's more unsettling material with a naturalism that keeps the horror grounded in the everyday rhythms of childhood. Supporting turns from Ümit Acar, Begüm İnci, Demir Meriç, and Bahadır Polat fill out the village's watchful, tight-lipped community.
Context & significance
Released in 2024, Lumme belongs to a growing line of Turkish horror that draws on regional folk belief rather than imported genre templates, using an isolated village rather than a haunted house as its central location. Director Atakan Şatıroğlu keeps the runtime to a lean 90 minutes, a choice that suits the film's slow-burn structure and leaves little room for filler between its escalating domestic unease and its eventual confrontation with the spirit at the story's core. The rural setting also lets the film explore how quickly a close-knit community can close ranks against outsiders, newcomers included.
Where & how to watch
Lumme can be watched on K-Time by logging into a free account; browsing the page itself costs nothing and requires no trial period. K-Time's browsing and search experience is built in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora, so viewers can navigate the catalog comfortably in Persian even though this particular title screens in its original Turkish.