Berkun Oya's Cici follows one Turkish family across three decades, from a shattering loss to an uneasy reunion.
What is Cici about?
A tragedy scatters a family from their hometown, sending them into the anonymity of the city to rebuild lives that never fully recover. Thirty years pass before circumstance draws them back to where it began, and the pull of the old house, the old streets, and the old grief proves stronger than the distance they tried to put between themselves and it. Cici is built around that homecoming: the small talk that dances around what everyone actually wants to say, the resentments that never got a proper hearing, and the quiet accounting each family member has been doing alone for years. Rather than staging a single dramatic confrontation, the film lets its cast circle the past in overlapping conversations, so that what happened three decades ago comes into focus gradually, filtered through memory, guilt, and the different ways grief settles into a person over a lifetime. The result is a family drama less interested in plot mechanics than in the accumulated weight of things left unsaid.
About the cast
The ensemble includes Fatih Artman, Ayça Bingöl, Funda Eryiğit, İncinur Daşdemir, Nur Sürer, Okan Yalabık, Olgun Şimşek, and Şevval Balkan, spanning generations within the family the film follows across its two timelines.
Context & significance
Cici arrived in 2022 as part of a wave of Turkish-language dramas built around multigenerational households and buried family history, a register Turkish television and film have leaned into for years. Persian-speaking audiences have long followed Turkish drama alongside Iranian and international titles, drawn to the shared emphasis on extended family, inherited obligation, and the slow reveal of old secrets that this film also works with.
Watching Cici on Ktime
Cici streams on K-Time with a free account login, no subscription tier required to browse the catalogue or read this page. K-Time's interface runs in Farsi for Persian-speaking viewers across the diaspora, making titles like this one easy to find alongside other Turkish and regional drama.