A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the assassination of his lover's disapproving mother, accompanied by hauntingly vacant images of urban alienation and garish city lights; we then flash back to witness the first encounter between the lovers-turned-accomplices, their mutual attraction and world-weariness emerging across a sleepless night and morning after. Çevik imbues the proceedings with a stylistic confidence and willingness to bend the conventions of cinematic form to arrive at a complex, gripping double meditation on love and death.
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Burak Çevik Director · Mine Pakel Composer Barış Aygen Cinematographer
United States release April 4, 2019 · Produced in Canada, France, Türkiye · Production Kuyu Films, Société Acéphale
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Fol Film
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Kuyu Films
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Société Acéphale
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Canada · France · Türkiye
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Original title
Aidiyet
Original language
Turkish
Spoken on screen
Turkish
Release dates
Germany · February 7, 2019
Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
United States · April 4, 2019
Premiere · New Directors/New Films
Iran
April 18, 2019 · Premiere · Fajr International Film Festival
Russia
August 24, 2019 · Premiere · On The Edge East International Film Festival
Singapore
June 1, 2019 · Premiere · Singapore International Festival of Arts
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