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By Onur ÜNLÜ

Black comedy - Production 2022

Günel, a 40 years old whose only compassion in life is to take pictures of unanimated objects, meets a very sympathetic -but also quite shady- guy in his company paid luxury vacation in Cyprus and his hollow life suddenly fills with violence, unambiguity and murder.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Black comedy, Crime
- Countries
- TURKEY
- Languages
- TURKISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Director(s)
- Onur ÜNLÜ
- Cast
- Serkan KESKIN, Settar TANRIOGEN, Hazar ERGUCLU
- Synopsis
- Our -anti?- hero Günel Yılmaz works in a company in an unimportant position. He is a bit of a dull person who lacks empathy and passion; like, his most dedicated hobby is to take pictures of unanimated objects such as tombstones, slippers, forks. When one of his co-workers, who has just won a luxury vacation on the company’s lottery, dies in an unfortunate accident, Günel wouldn’t hesitate to ask to reclaim his win, ‘considering he couldn’t use it anymore!’. Amazingly enough, the management agrees to send him to Cyprus, probably because of the audacity he has.
  
  As soon as he arrives in boiling-hot Cyprus in the middle of summer, Günel meets Şefik, a very energetic and lovable local. He is a plumber who lives alone since his wife passed away and happens to be the villa owner adjacent to the company paid one Günel will stay. He volunteers to be Günel’s guide on the island, making him take so-loved tombstone pictures. In the very first one of these trips, Günel falls and injures his leg badly. So his dream vacation in a luxury villa with a swimming pool takes a massive stroke. While he struggles with his crutches in the unbearable heat and humidity of the island, he tries to distract himself by observing things through his camera lens. It turns out to be a mistake soon since he witnesses a deadly fight in the garden of Şefik’s villa. Nonetheless, arriving there with enormous difficulty, he can only find a freshly dogged and covered hole in the ground and a nonchalant, smiley Şefik.
  
  From that point, Günel’s vacation becomes a waste, following two fruitless investigations; figuring out his precious cat Caesar’s whereabouts by constantly questioning his doorman or his voluptuous neighbor Nazlı or Nazlı’s short-fused boyfriend, and, solving what the hell is happening in the next villa. Şefik doesn’t seem to be bothered at all with Günel’s apparently incompetent detective skills. But is he really innocent? Is Günel being delusional for all the drugs he takes, all that alcohol he drinks and all that heat from hell? Or did Şefik really kill someone and bury them in the garden?