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Golden Tulip Competition

THE THINGS YOU KILL
ÖLDÜRDÜĞÜN ŞEYLER

• Director: Alireza Khatami
• FRANCE, POLAND, CANADA, TÜRKİYE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 113’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Alireza Khatami
• Director of Photography: Bartosz Swiniarski
• Editing: Selda Taşkın, Alireza Khatami
• Art Director: Meral Aktan
• Cast: Ekin Koç, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü, Ercan Kesal
• Producer: Elisa Sepulveda-Ruddoff, Cyriac Auriol, Mariusz Włodarski, Alireza Khatami, Michael Solomon
• Co-Producer: Marta Gmosińska, Ekin Koç, Cenk Ünalerzen
• Production Co.: Fulgurance, Remora Films, Lava Films, Tell Tall Tale, Band With Pictures, Sineaktif
• World Sales: Best Friend Forever

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Balkan Premiere

2025 Sundance Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic

Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, a university professor coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. But as his family and the authorities investigate the old man’s disappearance, Ali begins to doubt the rightness of his actions. Iranian filmmaker Alireza Khatami wrote, directed, and co-produced The Things You Kill, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival.

* 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.