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In a village near the Syrian border of Turkey, a young man, Mahmut wants to divorce his newly-wed wife. At the same time, his sister Zeynep, an adolescent girl, decides to get a factory job and starts studying by distance learning. Their idea is regarded as a sin, and an impossible battle begins.
In Keskincik, a village situated near the Syrian border of Turkey, a young man, Mahmut wishes to divorce his newly-wed wife. Guilt-ridden, he doesn’t know how to end the marriage. Recently, Mahmut’s sister Zeynep has ended her engagement as well. Resolute to quit the village, Zeynep enrols in an open high school and finds a job in a factory. Against her father’s wishes, Zeynep hopes to leave the village and study at a university. Mahmut and Zeynep become the centre of a genuine conflict in their family and community. As resentments and dilemmas come to light, the film aims to magnify this upcoming generation as they try to escape child marriages and create a new way of life for themselves.

Credits

Director
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Screenwriter
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Producer
Delphine Morel, Anke Petersen, Nadir Öperli
Cast
Not applicable

About the Director

Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Ahmet Necdet Çupur worked for three years in Iraq and Afghanistan during the war as a civil engineer. He had a growing interest in cinema, so he decided to be a filmmaker and moved to Paris. Two years after his arrival, he got funding from CNC for his short film ‘Latin Babylon’. The year he completed his film, he returned to his village, after twenty years, with an idea of shooting a documentary a
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