Director: Jim Cliffe
A wrongful conviction, a fractured family, and a mother who refuses to stay quiet drive this 2024 Canadian thriller from director Jim Cliffe.
What is Have You Seen My Son about?
After years behind bars for a crime she never committed, a mother walks free only to find her old life waiting with new dangers attached. Rebuilding a bond with the son she was torn from becomes tangled with a search for the truth, and the people she once trusted the most start looking less like allies and more like obstacles. As she digs into what really happened, the film tracks how deceit inside a family can outlast a prison sentence, turning a homecoming into another kind of ordeal.
Cast & crew
Sarah Smyth anchors the film as the wrongly imprisoned mother, with Catherine Lough Haggquist and Alana Hawley Purvis rounding out a cast built around domestic tension rather than courtroom spectacle. Jonathan Purvis and Meghan K. Lees fill out supporting roles that keep the household's fault lines in view throughout.
Context & significance
Have You Seen My Son? arrived in 2024 as part of a steady wave of Canadian-produced television movies built around wrongful-conviction plots and family secrets, a genre that leans on tight runtimes and close-quarters drama over big production scale. At 87 minutes, it moves briskly, favoring escalating suspicion over slow-burn atmosphere. The setting stays domestic and small-town, which keeps the focus tight on the people closest to the mother rather than on any larger legal system, and that choice shapes the film's steadily tightening sense of unease.
Where & how to watch
The film streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, both available at playback, making it easy to follow for Farsi-speaking viewers. Reading this page requires nothing, but pressing play does call for a K-Time account login, part of the platform's Farsi-first experience built for the Iranian diaspora.