IN THE BLIND SPOT

IM TOTEN WINKEL

By Ayse POLAT

MARS PRODUCTION - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, TURKEY

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
Istanbul Film Festival 2023
Golden Tulip for Best Film, Best Screenplay - Ayşe Polat
Izmir International Film and Music Festival 2023
Ankara Film Festival 2023
Ayvalik Film Festival 2023
Bolzano Film Fest Bozen 2023
Festival Des Deutschen Films in Madrid 2023
Festival Des Deutschen Films in Paris 2023
    • 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.