National Competition

AV: THE HUNT
AV

• Director: Emre Akay
• TURKEY / 2020 / DCP / Colour / 87’ / Turkish

• Screenplay: Emre Akay, Deniz Cuylan
• Director of Photography: Barış Özbiçer
• Editing: Taner Sarf, Emre Akay
• Music: Deniz Cuylan, Brian Bender
• Cast: Billur Melis Koç, Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Baki Rıdvan Kaymaz, Yağız Can Konyalı, Yılmaz Adam Bayraktar
• Producer: Emre Akay, Tolga Topçu, Diloy Gülün
• Production Co.: JaguarProjects, Darlingo Pictures
• World Sales: WTFilms

2021 Istanbul Best Original Music

2020 Birmingham Cine Excess Best Film

Police officer Sedat raids a derelict apartment squatted by a young couple. The man is killed, the young woman, Ayşe, escapes. When her friends and relatives offer no help, Ayşe is forced to steal cash and a car from her father and flee town like an outlaw. The chase goes deeper into the wild. Along with three men he has recruited, Sedat is pursuing her, out to kill in the name of honour. Taking off from the suburbs of Anatolia, Av: The Hunt continues reaching breath-taking natural landscapes, and recounts how a young woman is pulled into spiral of violence while trying to escape the patriarchal society she lives in.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.