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ATHLETE
ATLET

• Director: Semih Gülen, Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun
• TÜRKİYE, GERMANY, ROMANIA / 2025 / DCP / Colour / 89’ / Turkish, Bosnian; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Semih Gülen, Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun
• Director of Photography: Ayşe Alacakaptan
• Editing: Semih Gülen, Arda Çiltepe
• Music: Eylül Deniz Keleş
• Art Director: Günsu Sarı
• Cast: Sevda Baş, Tarhan Karagöz, Esra Kızıldoğan, Bilgesu Akın, Gamze Akça Özcan, Ercan Kesal
• Producer: Arda Çiltepe
• Co-Producer: Zeynep Dişbudak, Anamaria Antoci, Anda Ionescu, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Claus Herzog-Reichel, Mario von Grumbkow
• Production Co.: Vigo Film
• World Sales: Vigo Film

2025 Istanbul Best Cinematography -- New Visions

Hatice, a young and ambitious weightlifter living with her unemployed mother, aims to win the lifetime allowance provided to athletes who win medals in international competitions. In her pursuit of success at all costs, she decides to use an unconventional doping technique at the world championships: She will get pregnant, boost her hormones, and then have an abortion. But when her attempts don’t go as well as she’s anticipated, she has to take unexpected detours.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.