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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • The Photograph

    Penetrating Turkish-Kurdish drama about two boys who make friends during a twenty-hour bus journey. One is going to do his military service in the Tur
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  • Rhino Season

    A political indictment and an epic love tragedy by IFFR audience-award winner Bahman Ghobadi (Turtles Can Fly), with Monica Bellucci playing the lead.
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  • Die Erbin

    In a small Turkish mountain village, Hülya returns from Germany to write a novel about her deceased father. Her father’s voice is omnipresent, in her
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  • The Lament

    Atmospheric, stately Turkish film about man and nature. And about mourning, something every family member does in their own way.
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  • Silent

    Subtle prison drama set in Kurdistan in 1984, which won a Golden Palm. A woman visits her husband. A few words are enough.
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  • Fried Chicken

    The dinner ritual of a girl who won’t eat chicken alternates with a performance involving a truck with a huge fried chicken on it.
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  • Watchtower

    He hides from his own conscience by fleeing into a remote watchtower. She flees her surroundings in the basement of a rural bus station. Both…
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  • Gulyabani

    Gulyabani is a restless spirit. With the aid of a clairvoyant, her tumultuous past is recounted through her diary and letters.
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  • Dead Horse Nebula

    A dead horse; a childhood memory; the Turkish countryside; a nebula. Guileless realism as a prelude to life’s mystery.
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  • Heroes

    The commemorations in Gallipoli of one of the First World War’s biggest battles elicit nationalism on both sides.
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