Örtünün Altı | Under the Blanket
Mert10
Nurten10
Yankı10
2019 | Short Film | 15'

Örtünün Altı | Under the Blanket


Yankı is a seventeen year old kid that just discovered he is gay. Yankı lives under his mothers rules and oppressions. His mother Nurten never talks about Yankı’s “gay” situation and she doesn’t want to think his son being “sick” like that. On one of Nurten’s usual five o clock days with her friends they tell that they know about his sons sitation and they don’t like this sort of things in their neighborhood. Although Nurten shows some reaction at first after thinking she decides that her friends were right. And for curing this sickness Nurten decides to call a hodja to her house. One day after Yankı comes back from the school he gets face to face with that hodja.

Directed by

Kardelen Eren

Scenario

Kardelen Eren, Derin Biricik

Camera

Halil Uzun, Anıl Aydın, Burak Karaman

Sound

Emir Buğra Kazak

Edited by

Derin Biricik

Cast

Elif İnci Yankı, Savaş Alp Başar, Atakan Akarsu, Ayşen Çetiner Sezerel, Nalan Olcayalp, Aslı Omağ, Aslı Işık, Gülcan Tunel, Arzu Dikmen, Serhat Barış, Adnan Biricik, Orhan Öztokat, Beyza Erginci, Begüm Dökel

Language

Turkish

Subtitle

English

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