Les Enfants Terribles
Qumra Projects
Ahmet Necdet Cupur / Feature Documentary / France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar / 2021
In Arabic, Turkish
Genres: Drama, Family, Identity, Creative Documentary
Rated: This film has not been rated.
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Synopsis
In Keskincik, a village situated near the Syrian border of Turkey, a young man, Mahmut wishes to divorce his newly-wed wife. Guilt-ridden, he doesn’t know how to end the marriage. Recently, Mahmut’s sister Zeynep has ended her engagement as well. Resolute to quit the village, Zeynep enrols in an open high school and finds a job in a factory. Against her father’s wishes, Zeynep hopes to leave the village and study at a university. Mahmut and Zeynep become the centre of a genuine conflict in their family and community. As resentments and dilemmas come to light, the film aims to magnify this upcoming generation as they try to escape child marriages and create a new way of life for themselves.
About the Director
Ahmet Necdet Çupur worked for three years in Iraq and Afghanistan during the war as a civil engineer. He had a growing interest in cinema, so he decided to be a filmmaker and moved to Paris. Two years after his arrival, he got funding from CNC for his short film ‘Latin Babylon’. The year he completed his film, he returned to his village, after twenty years, with an idea of shooting a documentary about his family. His filmography includes ‘Latin Babylon’ (2018), ‘Boy and Bicycle’ (2015), ‘Experience’ (2014), and ‘Alley Dancer’ (2014).
Credits
- Director
- Ahmet Necdet Cupur
- Screenwriter
- Ahmet Necdet Cupur
- Producer
- Delphine Morel, Anke Petersen, Nadir Öperli
- Production Company
- TS Productions
- Cast
- Not applicable