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IN THE SHADE OF THE POPLAR TREE
KAVAK AĞACININ GÖLGESİNDE

• Director: Kenan Diler
• TÜRKİYE / 2025 / DCP / Colour / 64’ / Turkish, Kurdish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Kenan Diler
• Director of Photography: Kenan Diler
• Editing: Kenan Diler
• Music: Eriş Dervişoğlu, Sabır Erdinç
• With: Mikail Haskanlı
• Producer: Kenan Diler
• Production Co.: Dlr Film
• World Sales: Dlr Film

Mikail, who simultaneously looks like a madman and a dervish, runs an extraordinary cafe in order to isolate himself from the society and the strict, traditional structure of his family. He tries but struggles to open a boutique hotel for his mother, who is his father’s second wife since the age of 14 and is persecuted in this patriarchal structure. He dreams that she can live in this hotel so she can forget all that she went through.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.