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National Competition

DORMITORY
YURT

• Director: Nehir Tuna
• TÜRKİYE, GERMANY, FRANCE / 2023 / DCP / Colour and B&W / 118’ / Turkish, English; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Nehir Tuna
• Director of Photography: Florent Herry
• Editing: Ayris Alptekin
• Music: Avi Medina
• Art Director: Vahhab Ayhan
• Cast: Doğa Karakaş, Can Bartu Arslan, Ozan Çelik, Tansu Biçer, Didem Ellialtı, Orhan Güner, Işıltı Su Alyanak, Emrullah Erbay, Erdi Kökerer, Tolga T. Talay, Nazlı Benan
• Producer: Tanay Abbasoğlu, Dorothe Beinemeier, Thierry Lenouvel
• Production Co.: TN Yapım, Red Balloon Film, Ciné-Sud Promotion
• World Sales: Pyramide International

2024 İstanbul Golden Tulip Best Film - National Competition, Best Cinematographer
2023 Venice Bisato d’Oro Best Screenplay
2023 Saint Jean De Luz Best Director, Critics Award
2023 Marrakech Best Performance (Doğa Karakaş)
2023 Sottodiciotto (Torino) Special Jury Award

1997. The tensions between religious and secular Turks are increasing. Fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent by his father to a Muslim religious dormitory, a ‘Yurt’. Ahmet works hard to be the perfect son but he has trouble fitting in with rough kids at the Yurt, and feels isolated in his secular day school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend Hakan, a street-smart kid, who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together they dream of making their own decisions.

*First film

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.