I'm Not Him (Ben O Değilim)

Tayfun Pirselimoğlu wrote and directed Ben O Değilim (I Am Not Him), a Turkish drama. Built on identity, loneliness and the sameness of people's lives, it tells a doppelgänger story. The film runs about 125 minutes and opened in Turkey on September 26, 2014. It is Pirselimoğlu's sixth feature and was named Best Turkish Film of the Year at the 33rd Istanbul Film Festival.

Nihat, a middle-aged bachelor, works in a hospital canteen. Ayşe, a young woman who has just started in the same canteen, shows him more attention than he expects, which surprises him. One evening she invites him to dinner at her home. Nihat fears gossip because of her husband, who is in prison, but he accepts. A wedding photograph he sees there throws him off balance: Ayşe's husband looks as much like him as a twin. This strange relationship leads to changes in his ordinary life that he could not have foreseen. Ercan Kesal and Maryam Zaree share the leading roles, with Rıza Akın also in the cast.

It was shot in İzmir. One critic reads the film as raising the question "if I am not myself, who am I?" and the thought "what would my life be like in his place?".