Dormitory
Germany, France, Turkey, 2023, 118 minutes, Color, Turkish, English; Turkish captioned, English subtitled
2024 İstanbul Altın Lale; Best Cinematographer 2023 Venice Bisato d’Oro; Best Screenplay Saint Jean De Luz; Best Director Critics Award
Director: Nehir Tuna
Screenplay: Nehir Tuna
Cinematography: Florent Herry
Editing: Ayris Alptekin
Music: Avi Medina
Producer: Tanay Abbasoğlu, Dorothe Beinemeier, Thierry Lenouvel
Production: TN Yapım, Red Balloon Film, Ciné-Sud Promotion
Cast: Doğa Karakaş, Can Bartu Arslan, Ozan Çelik, Tansu Biçer, Didem Ellialtı, Orhan Güner, Işıltı Su Alyanak
At the end of the 1990s, political polarisation and tensions between religious and secular in Turkey are increasing. Fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent by his father to a religious dormitory. Ahmet works hard to be the perfect son but he has trouble fitting in with rough kids at the dormitory, and feels isolated in his secular day school, where he hides his new home from his classmates.