Crystal Globe Competition / Cinema Jazireh / Turkey, Iran, Bulgaria, Romania 2025
Afghanistan under the brutal rule of the Taliban. After surviving her family’s massacre, Leila has just one goal in life: to find her son Omid. But in a country where being a woman means being less than nothing, her chances are desperately slim, and so she chooses an extreme and dangerous solution. She radically changes her identity and sets out on a path where even the slightest hesitation can mean death. In her masterfully crafted second film, Turkish director Gözde Kural applies her familiarity with Afghan society in order to tell a story of oppression that forces individuals into roles – be it borrowed masculinity or forced femininity – that they would never accept in a free country.
Anna Kořínek
129 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Gözde Kural
/ Screenplay Gözde Kural
/ Dir. of Photography Adib Sobhani
/ Sound Alireza Alavian
/ Editor Gözde Kural, Bünyamin Bayansal
/ Art Director Babak Tahmili
/ Producer Gözde Kural, Milad Khosravi, Bulut Reyhanoğlu
/ Production Toz Film Production, Seven Springs Pictures, Kos Kos Films
/ Coproduction Front Film, Avva Mixx Studios, Orion, Soberworks
/ Cast Feresteh Hosseini, Mazlum Sümer, Ali Karimi, Hamid Karimi, Meysam Demanze, Reza Akhlagrad
/ Contact Toz Film Production
Gözde Kural (1987, Ankara, Turkey). Filmography: Dusk (Toz, 2017), Cinema Jazireh (2025).
Toz Film Production
Kazanci Yokusu Str. 26/2, 34433, Istanbul
Turkey
E-mail: [email protected]
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