Ayşe Polat : 2013
The Heiress
In a small Turkish mountain village, Hülya, a young German-Turkish writer, returns from Germany to write a novel about her deceased father, several years after his death. In order to get to know him better, she travels to Damal, the place where he was born and grew up. She meets the people from his youth and reconstructs his life there – at school, at home and in the expansive landscape around the village. Her father's voice is omnipresent, but while she observes, Hülya does not always get an equally positive picture of her father and the dramatic events that shaped his life and hers. Confusing memories fall into place. At the same time, present, past, reality and fantasy increasingly mingle and it becomes more and more clear that memory is a far-from-infallible instrument. A reflection on the value of family bonds, love and honour, Ayşe Polat's feature premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013.
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