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DORMITORY

YURT

By Nehir TUNA

Social issues - Completed 2023

Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father’s behest, fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to which he so desperately clings.

Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2023

Orizzonti - best script award by ICS (critics association)

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Social issues, First film, Drama
- Countries
- TURKEY, GERMANY, FRANCE
- Languages
- TURKISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 116 mn
- Director(s)
- Nehir TUNA
- Cast
- Doğa KARAKAŞ, Can BARTU ASLAN, Ozan ÇELİK, Tansu BİÇER, Di̇dem ELLİALTI, Işilti SU ALYANAK , Fati̇h BERK ŞAHİN, Emrullah ERBAY, Orhan GÜNER, Benan ÖZKAYA
- ISAN
- 0000-0006-6AD3-0000-B-0000-0000-4
- Producer(s)
- Dorothe BEINEMEIER (RED BALLOON FILM GMBH), Tanay ABBASOĞLU (TN YAPIM), Thierry LENOUVEL (CINE SUD PROMOTION)
- Synopsis
- Turkey, 1996.
  Tensions between religious and seculars is at its height.
  Fourteen-year-old Ahmet, an upper middle-class boy, is devastated when his father sends him to a religious boarding school. For his recently converted father, it is a path to redemption and purity. For Ahmet, it's a living nightmare. During the day, he attends a secular and nationalist college, while at night and on weekends, he returns to the overcrowded dormitory, the long hours of study and the vexations. But through his friendship with Hakan, an older boarder from a poor family, Ahmet challenges the strict rules of a system that, whatever religious or secular, only aims at brainwashing youth.

DORMITORY

YURT

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