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National Documentary Competition

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• Director: İpek Kent, Efe Öztezdoğan
• TÜRKİYE / 2024 / DCP / B&W / 85’ / Turkish, English; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Efe Öztezdoğan
• Director of Photography: Efe Öztezdoğan, Meryem Yavuz
• Editing: İpek Kent, Osman Bayraktaroğlu
• Music: Alper Maral, Cenker Kökten
• With: Ferhat Arıcan, İbrahim Çolak, Nazlı Savranbaşı, Ahmet Önder, Göksu Üçtaş Şanlı, Adem Asil
• Producer: Aslıhan Altuğ, Haluk Koçak, Efe Öztezdoğan
• Production Co.: Rings in Color
• World Sales: Rings in Color

Five gymnasts from Izmir qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a historic success, but they face an unprecedented obstacle: Covid-19. They struggle to overcome a difficult year of quarantine, earthquakes, and injuries in order to hold on to their dreams and win Turkey’s first medal at the Olympics, which was postponed for the first time in its history due to the pandemic.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.