While the country is crossed by inexplicable blackouts, four characters cross their destinies on the streets of Istanbul, in a neighborhood targeted by housing speculation in full overbuilding: an aspiring dancer, a mother who tries to help the unjustly imprisoned son by all means, an artist-activist, a shady figurehead. Their lives are intertwined around a story of drugs. A very lucid photograph of today’s Turkey.
We chose it because
Erdogan’s Turkey as we have never seen it, pulsing to the rhythm of hip-hop. Ghosts marks the possible birth of a new season of Turkish cinema. Far from the countryside of Anatolia. Foreign to the patriarchal and masculine centrality. Finally urban, political, young, rebellious.
GHOSTS (HAYALETLER)
Turkey, Qatar, 2020 Directed by Azra Deniz Okyay Cast Nalan Kuruçim, Dilayda Güneş, Beril Kayar, Emrah ÖzdemirRuntime 90′
Beatrice Fiorentino
