Zefir

Belma Baş : 2010
Zephyr

Zefir, the headstrong 11-year-old single daughter of an İstanbul mother, is spending her summer holiday with her grandparents, up in their mountain village. Inquisitively roaming the countryside, often alone, sometimes with her grandfather, she observes nature at work and the cycles of life and death. Every once in a while she retreats into her room with a portable record player to listen to the echoes of the city where she emotionally belongs. Zefir impatiently awaits her mother's return to take her back home again. But when the mother finally arrives, it is to announce that she has to go abroad for an indefinite period of time, possibly forever. No arguments can convince her to give up the trip and when she sets out on her way, it is Zefir who takes the final step to prevent it. Set in the majestic, mist-shrouded mountainous landscapes of northern Turkey, Belma Baş's beautifully shot, slow-paced debut feature examines the psyche of a young girl deeply damaged by emotional emptiness and unbearable loneliness.