Is Sirdas a Turkish film or Iranian?

Sirdas is a Turkish, French, and Luxembourg co-production, not an Iranian film. It is set in Ankara and Istanbul and is directed by a Turkish-French duo. It is available on K-Time for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.

Aya Sirdas zir-nevis farsi dare?

No, Sirdas does not currently have Persian subtitles or dubbing on K-Time. It streams in its original Turkish and French audio. Check the title page for any future subtitle updates.

Koja mitoonam Sirdas ro online tamasha konam?

You can watch Sirdas on K-Time at ktime.app from any browser or through the K-Time app on your Android TV, phone, or tablet. No VPN is required and there is no geo-blocking.

What is the 1999 earthquake story in Sirdas about?

The film is set during the 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey. A call-centre worker named Arzu receives a desperate call from a man trapped under rubble who she had spoken with before the quake, creating a tense and deeply human connection across the disaster.

Sirdas

Name: Sirdas
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 2025
Duration: 76 min
Cast: Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Nilgün Türksever, Nesrin Yatman, Nevin Zencirci, Sibel Oral

Director: Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti

Cast: Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Nilgün Türksever, Nesrin Yatman, Nevin Zencirci, Sibel Oral

Sirdas is a 2025 Turkish-French drama-thriller directed by Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, set against the backdrop of the catastrophic 1999 İzmit earthquake. Clocking in at 76 minutes, the film weaves together the mundane rhythms of a phone-sex call centre in Ankara with the chaos and desperation of a city in ruins.

What is Sirdas about?

It is Ankara, 1999. Arzu passes her shifts cycling through anonymous voices on the other end of a call-centre line, offering companionship masked as fantasy to strangers she will never see. One young man among them makes a stronger impression than the rest. Then the earth moves. When a massive quake tears through Istanbul, that same caller phones again — not for the service Arzu provides, but because he is trapped beneath collapsed concrete, terrified, and desperate for a human voice to hold onto. What unfolds is a spare, pressurised story about connection forged across distance and disaster: two people who have never met, bound together by telephone wire and the raw instinct to survive.

Cast & crew

Directors Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti are a Turkish-French filmmaking duo known for intimate character-driven work. Lead actress Saadet Işıl Aksoy carries the film as Arzu, supported by an ensemble that includes Nilgün Türksever, Nesrin Yatman, Nevin Zencirci, Sibel Oral, Tulya Yılmaz, Derya Yatman, and Meriç Kılıç. The cast is drawn entirely from Turkey, lending the film an authentic regional texture.

Context & significance

The 1999 Marmara earthquake is a shared trauma for Turkish and Iranian diaspora communities alike — both peoples remember that August and its aftershocks. For Persian-speaking viewers, Sirdas arrives with resonance beyond the thriller genre: it is a story about ordinary labour, the intimacy that can flare between strangers, and survival stripped to its most elemental form. Turkish-language cinema has long held a warm audience among Iranians inside the country and abroad; dialogue and cultural cadences feel close enough to invite genuine emotional investment. The film is available in its original Turkish and French audio — no Persian dub or subtitle is attached — yet the premise communicates across languages through its visceral, human-scale stakes.

Where & how to watch

Sirdas is available on K-Time in its original Turkish and French audio, without Persian dubbing or subtitles. You can stream it on your TV, laptop, or phone, no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start a subscription and cancel anytime.