Twenty minutes to bury your dad and become him. No pressure.
Salih (35), taking his son Mert (5), returns to father’s home, upon his funeral - in where he gets stuck within memories, family criticism and responsibility to his son. He justifies himself by blaming his father with whom he had a fall out but also faces the truths of becoming him and that his father loved him indeed.
Acting
Bekir Behrem's silent breakdowns hit harder than any dialogue.
Direction
Arıgümüş weaponizes limited runtime like emotional guerrilla warfare.
Director
Koray Arıgümüş
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Turkish cinema has a rich tradition of 'hometown return' dramas (Baba, Uzak), but Arıgümüş compresses the genre's usual three-act structure into a single morning—making the suffocation literal.
The title references Radiohead's 'Kid A' track about dissociation and control—Salih's obsessive compartmentalization ('everything in its right place') literally collapses when forced to confront his father's body.
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