Completed - TURKISH - Social issues, First film, Drama - 116 minutes
Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father’s behest, fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to which he so desperately clings.
Year of production : 2023 Director(s) : Nehir TUNA Cast : Doğa KARAKAŞ, Can BARTU ASLAN, Ozan ÇELİK, Tansu BİÇER, Di̇dem ELLİALTI, Işilti SU ALYANAK , Fati̇h BERK ŞAHİN, Emrullah ERBAY, Orhan GÜNER, Benan ÖZKAYA Producer(s) : Dorothe BEINEMEIER (RED BALLOON FILM GMBH), Tanay ABBASOĞLU (TN YAPIM), Thierry LENOUVEL (CINE SUD PROMOTION)
Turkey, 1996. Tensions between religious and seculars is at its height. Fourteen-year-old Ahmet, an upper middle-class boy, is devastated when his father sends him to a religious boarding school. For his recently converted father, it is a path to redemption and purity. For Ahmet, it's a living nightmare. During the day, he attends a secular and nationalist college, while at night and on weekends, he returns to the overcrowded dormitory, the long hours of study and the vexations. But through his friendship with Hakan, an older boarder from a poor family, Ahmet challenges the strict rules of a system that, whatever religious or secular, only aims at brainwashing youth.
Country(ies) : TURKEY, GERMANY, FRANCE
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Venice - Biennale 2023 (Orizzonti - best script award by ICS (critics association))