Les Enfants Terribles
Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage
Ahmet Necdet Cupur / Feature Documentary / France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar / 2021 / 92 min / Original Language: Arabic, Turkish / Interests: Creative Documentary, Drama, Family, Identity
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.
Credits
- Director
- Ahmet Necdet Cupur
- Screenwriter
- Ahmet Necdet Cupur
- Producer
- Delphine Morel, Anke Petersen, Nadir Öperli
- Production Company
- TS Productions
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).
Contacts
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Main Contact
Nadir Öperli
- Company:
- Liman Film
- Phone:
- +905336617737
- Email:
- nadir.operli@limanfilm.com
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Main Contact
Deckert Distribution
- Company:
- Deckert Distribution
- Phone:
- (0) 341 215 66 38
- Email:
- info@deckert-distribution.com