Kar ve Ayı

When Hasan is suddenly gone, it is initially thought that he has been eaten by a bear. Then, however newcomer Samet comes under suspicion, a hunt begins and the emotional and social equilibrium threatens to come undone. Aslı, who has just arrived from the city, finds herself in a village community in which, well-intentioned as everyone would appear to be, they seem to be hiding a secret. She struggles to cope with the general insecurity in the village, as well as its hidden hierarchies. Is she a player or a character in this game of power, and who stands to profit anyway? With this, her feature film debut, Selcen Ergun succeeds in creating a calmly staged, enigmatic portrait of the interpersonal mechanisms of fear and power in a society in which everyone feels increasingly threatened. A repressive system that sustains itself even in the absence of a mastermind behind the scenes and a community that is kept under control with threats and latent violence in this anti-fairy tale full of magical imagery, captured by Franco-Belgian cinematographer Florent Herry, who has also served as director of photography in the films of Reha Erdem.

Text: Bernd Buder
English: Peter Rickerby

Weltspiegel Saal 2: original version with English subtitles.