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THE LAMB

KUZU

By Kutluğ ATAMAN

WEIRD WAVE - as DISTR

Comedy - Completed 2014

Valladolid IFF 2014

Official Section Best Cinematography; Young Jury Award

Int'l Antalya Golden Orange 2014

Best Film-Best Actress-Best Supporting Actress-Behlul Dal Special Award-Turkish Cinema Critics Association's Best Film

Berlinale - EFM 2014

Panorama

Sarajevo FF 2014

Rio de Janeiro IFF 2014

Busan - BIFF/APM 2014

BFI London FF 2014

Chicago IFF 2014

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries
- TURKEY
- Languages
- TURKISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Kutluğ ATAMAN
- Writer(s)
- Kutluğ ATAMAN
- Cast
- Nesrin CAVADZADE, Cahit GÖK, Mert TAŞTAN, Sıla Lara CANTÜRK, Nursel KÖSE
- Producer(s)
- Kutluğ ATAMAN (The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks)
- Synopsis
- As eastern Anatolian village tradition requires, 27 year old Medine must serve oven-roasted lamb at her five year old son Mert’s circumcision feast. Poor but determined, Medine puts the family to work cutting branches to earn something towards the price of the sheep they need. İsmail, Medine’s unemployed husband, is worried by his wife’s assertive behavior. Envious of the attention Mert gets, his elder sister Vicdan makes Mert believe that if a sheep is not found he will be slaughtered instead.
  A singer-prostitute arrives in town. The village leader finds İsmail a job in the slaughterhouse. Friends there lead Ismail astray, and his weakness makes it even harder to buy the sheep. Medine persists. Mert has his own motivation to search for an animal, with determination that rivals his mother’s. Refusing even her grandmother’s support Medine receives help and solidarity from an unlikely source.