A Kurdish meatball maker builds a flying machine. What could go wrong? Everything. Beautifully.
Kadir, a meatball maker, father of three and native of Diyarbakır, is determined to fly, and he won’t let tradition, his family, the state and his troublesome paramotor stop him from trying. Because while paying the price of freedom. what matters is maintaining hope against all odds.
Acting
Nazmi Kırık carries impossible weight with zero theatrics.
Direction
Yesilbas turns Southeast Turkey into a character of its own.
Cinematography
Dust, light, and longing in every single frame.
Director
L. Rezan Yesilbas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in Diyarbakır with local non-professionals; Turkish authorities initially blocked location permits due to political sensitivities around Kurdish self-representation.
The paramotor is a real working-class obsession in rural Turkey—cheap flight for those who'll never own a plane. Kadir's specific model was sourced from a failed 2019 attempt.
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