Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a car crash twenty years ago. Is it? The question creeps into her mind, and then (or maybe even before) her life through recurring nightmares: Is it possible that her parents did not die in a car crash?
Direction
Özçelik's debut builds dread through Istanbul's liminal spaces.
Cinematography
Recurring spiral imagery mirrors Hasret's psychological descent.
Director
Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
Algı Eke
Hasret
Özgür Çevik
Mehmet
Kadir Çermik
Baba
Boncuk Yilmaz
Mother
Selen Uçer
Olcay Terken
Asiye Dinçsoy
Gülay
İpek Türktan
Gülsüm
Kerem Kupacı
Ceo
Taner Birsel
Independent MP
Nazan Kesal
Television programmer
Serhat Midyat
Interior Minister
Saygın Soysal
Furkan Muzaffer
Cüneyt Uzunlar
TV Host
Dilşad Bozyiğit
Yasemin
Nazlı Bulum
Young Woman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ceylan Özgün Özçelik developed the script through a workshop with Abbas Kiarostami shortly before his death, explaining the film's patient, image-driven approach to political horror.
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