Rumours about a young athlete’s sexuality have devastating consequences in an public-service lesson that lacks dramatic acuity
Directed by Leyla Yilmaz, this film finds troubled waters underneath the seemingly placid surface of a typical middle-class household in Turkey. As member of the school water polo team, Umut (Emir Özden) is under constant pressure to perform well in the pool and in his exams. All is not well for his parents, either. A compassionate doctor at a public hospital, his mother Selma (Senan Kara) spends her evenings secretly messaging a former flame on Facebook. Meanwhile, his father, Sinan (Yurdaer Okur), an engineer, endures daily intimidation from his new, much younger boss, whose demands lead him to drink heavily. The shaky stability of this nuclear family topples over when rumours about Umut’s sexual orientation spread through the school, causing the sensitive young boy to suddenly disappear without a trace.
Dealing...
Directed by Leyla Yilmaz, this film finds troubled waters underneath the seemingly placid surface of a typical middle-class household in Turkey. As member of the school water polo team, Umut (Emir Özden) is under constant pressure to perform well in the pool and in his exams. All is not well for his parents, either. A compassionate doctor at a public hospital, his mother Selma (Senan Kara) spends her evenings secretly messaging a former flame on Facebook. Meanwhile, his father, Sinan (Yurdaer Okur), an engineer, endures daily intimidation from his new, much younger boss, whose demands lead him to drink heavily. The shaky stability of this nuclear family topples over when rumours about Umut’s sexual orientation spread through the school, causing the sensitive young boy to suddenly disappear without a trace.
Dealing...
- 12/6/2021
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Leyla Yilmaz’s ’Not Knowing’ and Ümit Ünal’s ’Love, Spells And All That’ premiered at Antalya in 2019.
US-based Tla Releasing has picked up UK and North American rights to a duo of Turkish LGBTQ+ titles, Leyla Yilmaz’s Not Knowing and Ümit Ünal’s Love, Spells And All That, from Berlin and Istanbul- based World Sales ArtHood Entertainment.
Additionally, Tla’s sister company Optimale has acquired distribution rights to the two films for French-speaking Europe.
Derek Curl, CEO of Tla Releasing described the titles as “two very different, but equally illuminating and entertaining films set in the complex Turkish...
US-based Tla Releasing has picked up UK and North American rights to a duo of Turkish LGBTQ+ titles, Leyla Yilmaz’s Not Knowing and Ümit Ünal’s Love, Spells And All That, from Berlin and Istanbul- based World Sales ArtHood Entertainment.
Additionally, Tla’s sister company Optimale has acquired distribution rights to the two films for French-speaking Europe.
Derek Curl, CEO of Tla Releasing described the titles as “two very different, but equally illuminating and entertaining films set in the complex Turkish...
- 8/11/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
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