The Things You Kill

The Things You Kill (2025)

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Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.

Date of release
2025-04-25
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (28)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Director
Alireza Khatami

Casting

Interesting facts

The Things You Kill is a 2025 Turkish-language mystery film written and directed by Alireza Khatami. An international co-production between Canada, Turkey, Poland, and France, the film stars Ekin Koç as a university professor who solicits his gardener to seek vengeance after the suspicious death of his mother. Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü, and Ercan Kesal provide supporting roles. Khatami, Elisa Sepulveda Ruddoff, Cyriac Auriol, Mariusz Włodarsk, and Michael Solomon co-produced the movie.

Production

Iranian filmmaker Alireza Khatami wrote, directed, and co-produced The Things You Kill; it was his third feature film following Oblivion Verses (2017) and Terrestrial Verses (2023, which he co-directed with Ali Asgari). Khatami cited the work of David Lynch as one of his primary inspirations for the movie, saying that he was "in awe" of the types of unorthodox stylistic choices made by Lynch that are uncommon in Eastern filmmaking.

Khatami characterized the script as a work of autofiction, telling Variety that he "[doesn't] even know how to show this to [his] family because 70% of it is based on shared experiences". Khatami also stated that he hoped to undermine "what the audience expects from a 'brown filmmaker' ", calling the first half of the film a Trojan horse.

The film was co-produced by Khatami through the studio Tell Tall Tale, Elisa Sepulveda-Ruddoff from the French studio Fulgurance, Cyriac Auriol of Remora Films (France), Mariusz Włodarski of Lava Films (Poland), and Michael Solomon of Band With Pictures (Canada). Marta Gmosińska, Cenk Ünalerzen, and film star Ekin Koç also contributed to the production through the Turkish studio Sineaktif.

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