Meteors (2017)

Meteorlar

2017 | Turkey | Gürcan Keltek | ★★★★★

Gürcan Keltek's remarkable Meteors is a thoughtful, visually distinctive experimental docu-fiction exploring the intersection between the Kurdish plight and the natural world, driven by the alluring combination of spectacular black and white digital imagery and Ebru Ojen's quietly affecting narration.

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"They come at night and everybody steps out. They light torches and remember those who have walked these streets before them. In the coming hours, the city will be on lockdown: an eclipse appears and meteors start to fall." Festival Scope

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Mustang (2015)

2015 | France / Turkey | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | ★★★★

French-Turkish film-maker Deniz Gamze Ergüven's strangely warm and hopeful Mustang provides a girl's eye view of patriarchal oppression, filled with sensuous photography, beautiful performances, and radiant Turkish girls.

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"It's the beginning of summer. In a small village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are on their way home from school, innocently playing with local boys. But prying village eyes view their games with suspicion about the girls behaviour. Their refusal to repent quickly causes a scandal among the family." Curzon Artificial Eye