Achtung Film!
Presented as part of the project Longing/Belonging on September 4, at 6 PM at Cinémathèque québécoise:
In the blind spot
Im toten Winkel
Germany | 2023 | 118 mins
Director: Ayşe Polat
With: Ahmet Varlı, Çağla Yurga, Nihan Okutucu, Tudan Ürper, Katja Bürkle
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. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power.
IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.
Ayşe Polat doesn’t give a history lesson about Kurdish oppression but rather allows it to shrewdly infuse the script, underlining the ways in which repression malignantly attaches itself to the social fabric and rips it apart.
- Jay Weissberg for THE FILM VERDICT
Festivals and Awards:
amongst others, German Film Awards, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Film | Istanbul Film Festival, FIPRESCI-Award, Bester Editing, Bestes Screenplay, Beste Direction
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