MY FATHER'S WINGS

BABAMIN KANATLARI

By Kıvanç SEZER

KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Social issues - Completed 2016

This is a story of a construction worker who is diagnosed by cancer and needs money for his family.

Festivals
& Awards

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2016
Main Competition
 4. Duhok International Film Festival 2016
World Cinema Feature Competition - Yılmaz Güney Best Film
23. Adana International Film Festival 2016
National Competition - Yılmaz Güney Best Film Award
23. Adana International Film Festival 2016
National Competition - Best Actor
23. Adana International Film Festival 2016
National Competition - Best Supporting Actress
23. Adana International Film Festival 2016
National Competition - Best Supporting Actor
23. Adana International Film Festival 2016
National Competition - Best Music
23. Adana International Film Festival 2016
National Competition - Best Editing
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Drama
    • Countries
    • TURKEY
    • Languages
    • TURKISH, KURDISH
    • Duration
    • 101 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kıvanç SEZER
    • Writer(s)
    • Kıvanç SEZER
    • Producer(s)
    • Soner ALPER (NAR FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • Ibrahim and his nephew Yusuf work as construction workers in a luxury house construction site in Istanbul. Ibrahim finds out that he has a severe lung cancer. On the contrary of Ibrahim who is sick and old, Yusuf is a worker who has ambition and enthusiasm for the future. Then a work accident happens in the construction site in which family of the worker is paid compensation illegally by thecompany and when Ibrahim gets to know, he thinks of his family. As earthquake victims they are entitled to have a house but they still need to pay it for years. However the money isn't there. The idea of suicide and his cancer would lead him to death eventually. Then the question comes about the value of a person’s life. Will it worth to die or not?