In the blind spot
Kinofest 2024

Thriller, 2023, 118 min
Director: Ayşe Polat
Writers: Ayşe Polat
Age Rating: 16+
Languages: German, Turkish, Kurdish, English with English and Vietnamese subtitles
 

In a remote Kurdish village, in northeastern Turkey, a documentary is shot by German film crew. They spot an old woman performing ritual to memory of her missing son. Zafer, her father works for an ominous group. When she apparently get haunted by unknown power, he gets caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being. The film unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.