Director: Alireza Khatami
Cast: Ekin Koç, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü, Ercan Kesal, Serhat Nalbantoğlu
Oldurdugun Seyler is a 2025 psychological drama-thriller directed by Alireza Khatami, a co-production spanning Canada, France, Poland, Turkey, and Singapore. Running 115 minutes, the film weaves grief, guilt, and buried family memory into a slow-burn inquiry that resists easy resolution and rewards patient viewers.
What is Oldurdugun Seyler about?
A university professor begins to suspect that his mother did not die naturally. As he digs into her final days, he finds himself drawn into an unsettling collaboration with the family's reclusive gardener — a figure whose relationship with the deceased was far more layered than anyone guessed. The investigation pulls them both through distorted recollections and half-revealed confessions, where each new clue reshapes what they thought they already knew. Loyalties shift; grief clouds judgment; and the line between uncovering the truth and manufacturing a more bearable version of it grows dangerously thin. The film constructs its mystery carefully, letting the emotional weight accumulate without rushing toward answers.
Cast & crew
Director Alireza Khatami brings a measured, literary sensibility to the material. The ensemble is led by Ekin Koç and Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, with Hazar Ergüçlü, Ercan Kesal, Serhat Nalbantoğlu, Aysan Sümercan, Selen Kurtaran, and İpek Türktan rounding out a cast drawn from Turkish cinema and international productions. Khatami shapes their performances toward interiority rather than melodrama.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers, Oldurdugun Seyler carries a particular resonance: it is the work of an Iranian-born director working across multiple international industries, and it occupies the slow-cinema tradition that many diaspora audiences already prize — films that trust silence as much as dialogue. The subject matter, family secrets and the revisionism grief invites, speaks across cultural borders. The film is available in its original audio (Turkish and other production languages) with no Persian dubbing or subtitles at this time, so viewers comfortable with reading other subtitle tracks or with the film's original languages will find the most complete experience.
Where & how to watch
Oldurdugun Seyler is available on K-Time. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no extra download required, no VPN, no geo-blocking. Sign up and cancel anytime. The film plays in its original audio; Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are not currently available.