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Germany, France, Turkey, 2015, 97 minutes, Color, Turkish


2016 César Awards; Best Editing, Best First Work, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Music Glasgow FF; Audience Award 2015 AFI Fest; Audience Award European Film Awards; European Discovery of the Year Cannes FF; Label Europa Cinemas Chicago FF; Best Foreign Language Film Goya Awards; Best European Film Hamburg FF; Art Cinema Award Sarajevo FF; Best Film, Best Actress Thessaloniki FF; Audience Award Stockholm FF; Best Screenplay Valladolid FF; Audience Award, FIPRESCI Prize, Youth Jury Award

Director:  Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Screenplay: Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour
Cinematography: David Chizallet, Ersin Gok
Editing: Mathilde Van de Moortel
Music: Warren Ellis
Production:: CG Cinéma, Vistamar Filmproduktion, Uhland Film, BAM Film
Oyuncular: Güneş Şensoy, Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu, Elit İşcan, İlayda Akdoğan, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Nihal Koldaş, Ayberk Pekcan

The film tells the story of five orphan teenager girls living in a town near Black Sea, with their grandmother and uncle and seeking freedom. After an innocent game they play with the boys from town, the lives of Sonay, Selma, Ece, Nur and Lale turns into hell and the girls try find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them.