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Brain Surgeon

Brain Surgeon

Ömer Ali Kazma | Turkey | 2007 | 15' |

| IFFR 2008

This film forms part of the series ‘Obstructions’ about human actions and skills; about maintenance, repair, production and creation. Here we follow the well-known Turkish brain surgeon Ali Zirh who performs a brain operation with incredible control on a patient who has become paralysed on the right side.

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