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AMINA

• Director: Kıvılcım Akay
• TURKEY / 2019 / DCP / Colour / 70’ / French, Turkish, Wolof; English, Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Kıvılcım Akay
• Director of Photography: Meryem Yavuz
• Editing: Eytan İpeker
• Music: Erdem Helvacıoğlu
• Cast: Katılan With: Aminata Fall
• Producer: Aslıhan Altuğ
• Co-Producer: Beste Yamalıoğlu
• Production Co.: Akay Film
• World Sales: Akay Film

Amina is a 29-year-old Senegalese woman who works as a dress model in a textile company in Istanbul. Leaving her daughter behind, she immigrated to Turkey seven years ago to earn money and to take care of her daughter’s needs. Amina faces many challenges each day as an African woman living in Turkey. She fights these difficulties keeping alive her hopes of going back to her daughter and her country, she also dreams of being a real model one day. As an immigrant, Amina is in two minds-between her realities and her dreams.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.