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National Competition

IN THE BLIND SPOT
IM TOTEN WINKEL

• Director: Ayşe Polat
• GERMANY / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 117’ / German, Turkish, Kurdish, English; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Ayşe Polat
• Director of Photography: Partick Orth
• Editing: Serhad Mutlu, Jörg Volkmar
• Music: Dynamedion
• Art Director: Görkem Canbolat
• Cast: Ahmet Varlı, Çağla Yurga, Nihan Okutucu, Tudan Ürper, Katja Bürkle, Aziz Çapkurt, Aybi Era
• Producer: Mehmet Aktaş
• Co-Producer: Ayşe Polat
• Production Co.: mîtosfilm
• World Sales: ArtHood Entertainment

2023 Istanbul Film Festival Golden Tulip Best Film--National Competition, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, FIPRESCI Prize--National Competition

Premiering in February at the 2023 Berlinale within the Encounters section, In the Blind Spot is the latest film by Turkey-born German director Ayşe Polat (En Garde, Auslandstournee, Die Anderen / The Others). A German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey, in a remote village, where they interview an old woman performing a ritual to keep the memory of her son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister, obscure organisation and is caught between loyalty to his employers and fear for his family’s well-being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.