1999 · drama · kurdish · friendship
Journey to the Sun
Directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu1h 49m1999
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd.
Our read: Journey to the Sun (1999) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · kurdish · friendship entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / kurdish, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
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