World Cinema
Yurt
Turkey, Germany, France
Turkish
2023
118 mins
Asia Premiere
Festival History
Venice Int'l Film Festival 2023
World Cinema
Yurt
Turkey, Germany, France
Turkish
2023
118 mins
Asia Premiere
Festival History
Venice Int'l Film Festival 2023
1997, the tensions between religious and secular Turks are increasing. Fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent by his recently converted father to an Islamic dormitory, a ‘Yurt’, to learn Muslim values. Ahmet works hard to be the perfect son, but he has trouble
fitting in with rough kids at the Yurt, and feels isolated in his day secular school, where he hides his new home from his classmates. His only solace is a new friend Hakan, a street-smart kid who knows how to work the Yurt system. Together they dream of making their own decisions.
Doğa Karakaş
Can Bartu Arslan
Ozan Çelik
Tansu Biçer
Didem Ellialtı
Orhan Güner
Işilti Su Alyanak
Nehir Tuna
Florent Herry
SBC
Ayris Alptekin
Avi Medina
Simone Weber
Vahhap Ayhan
Didem Ellialtı
Nehir Tuna
Nehir Tuna
Nehir Tuna
Tanay Abbasoğlu
Dorothe Beinemeier
Thierry Lenouvel
TN Yapım
Red Balloon Film
Alberto Alvarez
alberto@pyramidefilms.com
Alberto Alvarez
alberto@pyramidefilms.com
Nehir Tuna’s work combines social commentary and an original visual aesthetic, tackling stories on Turkey’s complex present-day issues, be it masculinity or conservatism. A Sundance Alumni, Tuna was selected to take part in 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and 2020 Directors and Screenwriters Lab. He participated in the 2018 Nipkow film residency program. He has written and directed seven short films, including THE SHOES, a prequel to YURT (DORMITORY). Tuna studied at Columbia University's Graduate Film Program and holds an MFA in directing from Rochester Institute of Technology.
