A quiet adoptee unravels his Turkish roots when love cracks his carefully built walls.
Atilla, a reclusive young man of Turkish origin adopted at a young age by Michael and Julie, a Quebec couple reconciles with his origins and his past thanks to the encounter with Asya, a student visiting Québec.
Acting
Émile Schneider's restrained devastation — says everything with silence.
Cinematography
Montreal's grey-blue winter as emotional prison and possibility.
Director
Onur Karaman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Onur Karaman, himself Turkish-Canadian, shot this partly autobiographically. The film was developed through a Quebec-Turkey co-production treaty rare in Canadian cinema.
Dilan Gwyn learned Quebec French phonetically for the role; her character's linguistic fumbling mirrors real on-set communication barriers.
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