IN THE BLIND SPOT

IM TOTEN WINKEL

By Ayse POLAT

MISSINGFILMS - as DISTR

Drama - Completed 2023

In a remote city in northeastern Turkey, a German film crew attempts to shoot documentary while a Turkish surveillance agent deals with seemingly mysterious forces haunting his young daughter. As their stories intertwine, a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and trauma unfolds.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2023
Encounter section
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama, Thriller
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN, ENGLISH, KURDISH, TURKISH
    • Duration
    • 117 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ayse POLAT
    • Writer(s)
    • Ayşe POLAT
    • Producer(s)
    • Mehmet AKTAŞ (mîtosfilm)
    • Synopsis
    • A German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. As these people are drawn together by a fateful encounter, a destructive power begins to unleash itself. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.