Title of film : Im toten Winkel
Director Name : Ayse Polat
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Synopsis : In a remote Kurdish village, in northeastern Turkey, a documentary is shot by German film crew. They spot an old woman performing ritual to memory of her missing son. In the village, Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl lives, whose nanny is the Kurdish translator of the film crew. Zafer, her father works for an ominous group. When she apparently get haunted by unknown power, he gets caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being. This eventually developes into a ruinous force. The film unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.
Director Bio : Ayşe Polat, born October 19, 1970, is a German-Kurdish director, screenwriter, and producer known for exploring cultural and social themes. Her career began with the 1992 short Fremdennacht, supported by the Hamburg Film Bureau. Ein Fest für Beyhan (1994) won several awards, including the WDR sponsorship prize, and Gräfin Sophia Hatun (1997) earned a Special Jury Prize in Ankara. Her debut feature, Tour Abroad (1999), competed internationally, winning Best Directorial Debut in Ankara. Her second feature, En Garde (2004), opened the Locarno Film Festival and won the Silver Leopard. She directed her first play, Otobüs, in 2006. Later works include the tragicomedy Luks Glück (co-producer), The Heiress (2013), and her 2016 documentary The Others, premiering at DOK Leipzig.
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