Brother's Keeper
There's a crystalline precision and angularity to the plotting, which grows more compelling with each layer of culpability that is unpeeled.
Brother's Keeper
Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo’s condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens to run out.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
85
Language
Turkish,
Kurdish
Director
Ferit Karahan
Writer(s)
Gülistan Acet,
Ferit Karahan
Cast
Samet Yıldız,
Ekin Koc,
Mahir İpek,
Nurullah Alaca,
Cansu Fırıncı,
Melih Selçuk
Awards:
Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, Berlin International Film Festival
Nominee, Cannes Junior Award, Cannes Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Caitlin Quinlan, Sight & Sound
In a cramped, dimly lit boarding school shower room, young boys are packed in three to a cubicle. As one group leaves, another enters in single file; plastic sandals slap against wet tiles, shared pitchers and bars of soap slip between hands, while playful chatter is drowned out by the sound of ...
Played at
Glendale 10.21.22 - 10.27.22
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