Completed - TURKISH - Documentary - 84 minutes
Shakespeare’s King Lear travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into Queen Lear in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Pelin ESMER Producer(s) : Dilde MAHALLI, Pelin ESMER
In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted out their own life stories in the village, and the play changed their lives. Now, they take to the road with an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, traveling the dusty, dangerous roads to the farthest-flung mountain villages where there isn’t even running water. On the road, their lives merge with the world of King Lear and become bound up with "the good and the bad", "the young and the old", "the rich and the poor", "the honest and the dishonest" of the play.
Country(ies) : TURKEY
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Sarajevo FF 2019 Competition Documentary26. International Adana Golden Boll FF 2019 (Yilmaz Güney Award)26. International Adana Golden Boll FF 2019 (Best Music Award)26. International Adana Golden Boll FF 2019 (SIYAD Cüneyt Cebenoyan Best Film Award)Baska Sinema Ayvalik FF 2019This Human World 12. International Human Rights FF 2019 (Österreich Premiere)Int'l Antalya Golden Orange 2019 (Special Screenings)8. International Zeugma FF 2019 (Living Together)Sinemardin International Mardin FF 201918. International Filmmor Women's FF on Wheels 2020 (Consecutive Films)FIPADOC International Documentary Festival 2020 (International Documentary)Goteborg IFF 2020 (Nordic Premiere / Five Continents)DOK.fest München 2020 (German Premiere / DOK.panorama)23. Flying Broom International Women's FF 2020 (Each has a Different Color)28. Barcelona International Women's FF 2020 (Panoràmica 2020)