(1999) Journey to the Sun
(In Turkish/ Kurdish with English subtitles)
POLITICAL DRAMA
Written and directed by Yesim Ustaoglu centering on adult teenager, Berzan (Nazmi Kirik) from Istanbul bonding with someone he was supposed to be hating, Mehmet (Newroz Baz) after saving him from an angry mob. Berzan himself eventually gets himself caught up in the system upon after what was supposedly a harmless bus ride and was ater branded with the dreadful X similar to the Scarlet Letter.
At times the complicated situation serves nothing more but a backdrop to the not so nice looking areas that may or may not be exaggerated.
Written and directed by Yesim Ustaoglu centering on adult teenager, Berzan (Nazmi Kirik) from Istanbul bonding with someone he was supposed to be hating, Mehmet (Newroz Baz) after saving him from an angry mob. Berzan himself eventually gets himself caught up in the system upon after what was supposedly a harmless bus ride and was ater branded with the dreadful X similar to the Scarlet Letter.
At times the complicated situation serves nothing more but a backdrop to the not so nice looking areas that may or may not be exaggerated.