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National Competition

THE REEDS
SON HASAT

• Director: Cemil Ağacıkoğlu
• TÜRKİYE, BULGARIA / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 125’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Cemil Ağacıkoğlu, Arzu Ağacıkoğlu
• Director of Photography: Emre Pekçakır
• Editing: Selda Taşkın
• Music: Doğan Duru
• Art Director: Canip Serten
• Cast: Hilmi Ahıska, Sevgi Temel, Gökhan Yıkılkan, Berkay Şanveren, Erdem Şenocak, Ercan Kesal
• Producer: Sezgi Üstün San, Özlem Özçelik
• Co-Producer: Veselka Kiryakova, TRT
• Production Co.: Sezzfilm
• World Sales: Wide

2024 İstanbul Best Original Music

In an Anatolian village, a young man named Ali is still deeply in love with his wife, Aysel, and dreams of winning her affection. He harvests canes for a living, but can’t meet their basic needs as he refuses to submit to the local gang. Fed up with poverty, Aysel begins working for the gang, which devastates Ali. He makes a daring attempt to turn things around, and ends up losing all his harvest. As he takes shelter on the lake, a tragic accident leads him to kill one of gang’s men. Ali struggles to accept the blood on his hands. But to his relief, the gap closes between him and Aysel. Soon, Ali realizes that the circle is closing in on him as everyone searches for lost men.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.