My Father and My Son

My Father and My Son (Babam ve Oğlum, 2005) is a Turkish family drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Çağan Irmak and starring Fikret Kuşkan, Çetin Tekindor, and young Ege Tanman. On release it became one of the highest-grossing Turkish films of its era.

September 1980: journalist Sadık's wife dies in childbirth on the same night a military coup reshapes Turkey. Seven years later he arrives at his childhood home — sick, broken, holding a small boy — to face the father he walked out on. Hüseyin Efendi sent his son to the city to get an education; his son threw that away for left-wing politics and brought shame on the family. Between them stretch years of silence and a wound neither man knows how to close. Little Deniz stands in the middle of all of it.

Irmak refuses to treat the coup as mere backdrop — the violence of that period is woven into why these men became strangers. What makes the film work is that neither side is wrong in any simple way, and the reconciliation, when it comes, costs something real. Watch My Father and My Son (2005) online on iFILM.