11 November 2012

Where the Fire Burns



İsmail Güneş : 2012
Ateşin Düştüğü Yer

Sixteen-year-old Ayşe lives with her family on a Turkish farm and is her father's favourite daughter. One day, unexpectedly taken ill, she is brought to a hospital for emergency heart surgery. During the operation the doctors also discover that Ayşe is pregnant. Once recovered from the successful surgery, she refuses to reveal the identy of her baby's father, and Osman, Ayşe's father, is ordered to kill his daughter by the family council. Supposedly taking her to her uncle's until she gives birth, he embarks instead on an ominous journey with the serenely unsuspecting Ayşe, a pick and shovel in the car boot, beside a bottle of poison. In reality, this should be her last journey, but during their trip along the Turkish coast the father and daughter rediscover their true relationship – his anguish growing as she starts reacting to the poison slipped into her water bottle. Will Osman be able to break through the constraint of the ritual honour killing before it is too late? Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Montréal World Film Festival 2012.

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