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Mined Zone

SAÝARA

• Director: Can Evrenol
• TÜRKİYE / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 99’ / Turkish, Turkmen; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Can Evrenol
• Director of Photography: Umut Turan
• Editing: Can Evrenol
• Art Director: Hüseyin Akgül
• Cast: Duygu Kocabıyık, Emre Kızılırmak, Özgül Koşar
• Producer: Can Okan, Ahmet Ziyalar, Sarp Kalfaoğlu, Can Evrenol
  Co-producer: Ali Cem Bilgili
• Production Co.: İnter Yapım
• World Sales: İnter Medya

Sayara, a young woman from Turkmenistan, works as a cleaner in an Istanbul gym. Her older sister, Yonca, is raped and murdered by Barış and his three friends. Barış is the owner of the gym with whom Yonca was having an affair. Barış’s father is a member of parliament. The court rules that the incident was a suicide, and Barış and his friends are released for lack of evidence. They think that everyone will forget this case, and they will get away, just like the countless others like it. But, that won’t be the case, because Sayara has a secret. Her father is Shamil Bazarov, one of Turkmenistan’s most trusted deep state figures and a former Soviet sambo champion. He has trained Sayara like a spy in close combat. That night, Sayara vows to take justice into her own hands.

* Scenes of violence/sex might disturb some viewers.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.