National Competition

9,75

• Director: Uluç Bayraktar
• TURKEY / 2020 / DCP / Colour / 117’ / Turkish, Kurdish; Turkish s.t., English s.t.

• Screenplay: Damla Serim, Uluç Bayraktar
• Original Work: Mehmet Eroğlu
• Director of Photography: Soykut Turan
• Editing: Serdar Çakular
• Music: Avi Medina
• Cast: Nejat İşler, Funda Eryiğit, Berkay Ateş, Menderes Samancılar, Eylül Dursun, Yusuf Mirza Zarg, İsmail Mirhat Zarg ve Ercan Kesal, Şebnem Bozoklu 
• Producer: Uluç Bayraktar
• World Sales: Uluç Bayraktar

2021 Dhaka Best Actor (N. İşler)
2021 Snowdance Best Film, Best Script

Adapted from Mehmet Eroğlu’s novel, 9,75 tells the tale of Ahmet, a writer stuck between the East and the West of Turkey, whose tragic life story is akin to those in the books by Kemalettin Tuğcu. In 2013, after being informed that he has a brain tumour, Ahmet meets the love of his life, Serap, while on the other hand, he tries to bring back the recollections of his time with Zinar, whom he had met in the 1990s during his military service in southeastern Turkey. Focused on completing the novel he’s been working on before his surgery, Ahmet is nevertheless haunted by his love, his past, and the relentless will to write. He will eventually have to confront his biggest fear at a dark impasse where love, death, and his painful past intersect.

*This film is nominated for the Seyfi Teoman Debut Film Prize

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.