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My World

Turkey, 2013, 100 minutes, Digital, Color, Turkish


Director:  Uğur Yücel

Screenplay: Uğraş Güneş, Can Yücel
Cinematography: Tolga Kutlar
Editing: Ulaş Cihan Şimşek
Music: Tamer Çıray
Production: TMC Film
Cast: Uğur Yücel, Beren Saat, Ayça Bingöl, Turgay Kantürk, Hazar Ergüçlü

Taking place in Büyükada in the 1950’s, this is the story of Elâ, a little girl who became blind and deaf due to an illness she had at the age of two, and therefore, is unaware of the concepts of the world, and her teacher Mahir who dedicates his life to make her better. The paths of Elâ, who knows nothing about the world until the age of 8 and Mahir, who dedicates his life to help disabled people after tragically losing his older sister who was in a similar condition to Elâ’s somehow crosses. In this journey of them, there is a single word that is never used: Impossible…