THE VISITOR

MİSAFİR

By Mehmet ERYILMAZ

ATLANTA FILM - as PROD

Second film - Completed 2015

the idea of hope built on tragedy...

“Some say about the fate of any girl ‘like mother, like daughter’. But, Mum, I swear to God that my little girl’s fate will be nothing like mine.” - NUR (main character of the film)

Festivals
& Awards

Montréal World FF 2015
Main Competition - Special Grand Jury Prize
Montréal World FF 2015
FIPRESCI AWARD
Haifa IFF 2015
The Carmel International Film Competition
Toronto - TIFF 2015
Special Screening
Int'l Antalya Golden Orange 2015
National Feature Films Competition
Bosphorus IFF 2015
International Feature Film Competition - Best Actor Award
Adana IFF 2015
National Feature Film Competition
Malatya IFF 2015
National Feature Film Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Second film, Family, Drama
    • Countries
    • TURKEY
    • Languages
    • TURKISH
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 127 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mehmet ERYILMAZ
    • Writer(s)
    • Mehmet ERYILMAZ
    • Producer(s)
    • Mehmet ERYILMAZ (atlanta film), Ali BAYRAKTAR (istanbul dijital), Mustafa DOK (bredok-film production)
    • Synopsis
    • THE VISITOR

      “Some say about the fate of any girl ‘like mother, like daughter’. But, Mum, I swear to God that my little girl’s fate will be nothing like mine.” - Nur (main character of the film )

      Ten years after being thrown out of her parental home, Nur hears that her mother is at death’s door. Taking her young daughter with her, Nur hurries back to her father’s world to see, and reconcile with her mother before it is too late. While the universal theme of mother-daughter relationships lies at the centre of the film, this is underpinned by an allusive subtext of incest, one of most common but least addressed social problems in Turkey. The individual stories of the family members combine with a sense of hope fuelled by tragedy to paint a portrait of the socially disconnected.