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Afloat

Turkey, 2023, 115 minutes, Color, Turkish, English; Turkish captioned, English subtitled


2024 New York CineFest; Best Picture, Best Director 2023 Adana Altın Koza Film Festivali; Best Supporting Actress LA Independent Women Films Awards;  Best Director

Director:  Aslıhan Ünaldı

Screenplay: Aslıhan Ünaldı
Cinematography: André Jäger
Editing: Aslıhan Ünaldı, Melih Kaymaz
Music: Davut Özdemir, Deniz Güngör
Producer: Kamen Velkovsky, Aslıhan Ünaldı
Production: Siren Film
Cast: Nihan Aker, Elit İşcan, Serhat Ünaldı, Lila Gürmen, Eren Çiğdem, Oscar Pearce

Zeynep arrives from New York to a small town on the coast of Turkey with her American husband. She returns to a family that is broken- parents who are divorced and a younger sister who has become estranged. The troubled family embarks on a week-long sailing trip, meant to be a last chance for Zeynep’s father Yusuf, a dissident journalist being prosecuted by the government, to reconnect with his daughters before going to prison.