A mother's death that does not add up sends her son into a psychological maze in Oldurdugun Seyler, a 2025 drama-thriller directed by Alireza Khatami.
What is Oldurdugun Seyler about?
A university professor cannot accept the official account of his mother's sudden death, and his search for the truth pulls him toward the one person who might actually know something: her enigmatic gardener. What begins as a private grief turns into a shared descent, the two men circling each other through mirrored rooms and half-remembered conversations as old family secrets start to surface. Rather than building toward a single shock, the film lets suspicion accumulate in quiet increments, using memory itself as an unreliable witness. The professor's certainty erodes scene by scene, and the film asks what it costs to keep pulling at a thread once you suspect it leads somewhere you would rather not go. It is a co-production spanning Canada, France, Poland, Turkey, and Singapore, and that international frame shows in a story more concerned with interior unraveling than with a tidy procedural chase.
About the cast
Ekin Koç leads as the professor, opposite Erkan Kolçak Köstendil as the gardener at the center of his suspicion. Hazar Ergüçlü, Ercan Kesal, Serhat Nalbantoğlu, Aysan Sümercan, Selen Kurtaran, and İpek Türktan round out the ensemble surrounding the two men.
Context & significance
Oldurdugun Seyler holds a solid IMDb standing among festival-adjacent Turkish-language drama, and its multinational production credits reflect the kind of cross-border financing increasingly common for ambitious arthouse thrillers out of Turkey. Running 115 minutes, it gives its slow-burn mystery room to breathe rather than rushing toward answers, letting the professor's unraveling set the pace instead of a ticking-clock structure.
Watching Oldurdugun Seyler on Ktime
K-Time streams Oldurdugun Seyler with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a choice in how they watch. The film's page is free to browse without signing in, and only pressing play calls for a free K-Time account, inside an interface built with the Farsi-speaking diaspora audience in mind.