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DORMITORY
YURT
NEHIR TUNA
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DORMITORY
YURT
NEHIR TUNA
Country
TURKEY
language
TURKISH
2023 year
118 Minutes

SCHEDULE

03.03.2024 / 05:15 PM/ Audi 7 PVR INOX ORION MALL
06.03.2024 / 12:30 PM/ Audi 7 PVR INOX ORION MALL

Synopsis

1997, the tensions between religious and secular Turks have been increasing. Fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent by his recently converted father to an Islamic dormitory, a "Yurt," to learn Muslim values. Ahmet works hard to be the perfect son, but he has trouble fitting in with the rough kids at the Yurt and feels isolated in his day secular school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend, Hakan, a street-smart kid who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together, they dream of making their own decisions.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Tanay Abbasoğlu, Dorothe Beinemeier, Thierry Lenouvel
Screenplay: Nehir Tuna
Director of Photography: Florent Herry
Editor: Ayris Alptekin
Music: Avi Medina
Sound: Simone Weber
Cast: Doğa Karakaş, Can Bartu Arslan, Ozan Çelik, Tansu Biçer, Didem Ellialti, Orhan Güner, Işilti Su Alyanak
Awards - Winner: Venice FF (Best Screenplay), Marrakech IFF (Best Actor - Doga Karakas)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Venice FF (Best Film, Queer Lion, Best Film in a Foreign Language, Best Debut Film, Best Director), Göteborg FF (Best Film), Tallinn Black Nights FF (Best Film), Marrakech IFF (Best Director, Best Feature Film)
Director's Biography
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NEHIR TUNA

Nehir Tuna’s work combines social commentary and an original visual aesthetic, tackling stories on Turkey’s complex present-day issues, be it masculinity or conservatism. A Sundance alumni, Tuna was selected to take part in the 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the 2020 Directors and Screenwriters Lab. He participated in the 2018 Nipkow film residency program. He has written and directed seven short films, including THE SHOES, a prequel to YURT (DORMITORY). Tuna studied at Columbia University's Graduate Film Program and holds an MFA in directing from the Rochester Institute of Technology.