A young Afghan artist records her tough, clandestine journey out of Iran on her smartphone and imagines herself anew in this partly animated tale, the Best Film winner at the world’s largest documentary festival in Amsterdam.
Festival Programme
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Turkish
Salvation
Kurtuluş
Led by a man consumed with envy and the need to prove himself, a land dispute ends in massacre. Emin Alper's Silver Bear-winning thriller is a chilling study of how ordinary people find their way to extraordinary violence.
Yellow Letters
Gelbe Briefe
A celebrated Turkish theatre couple are suddenly targeted by the state and stripped of their livelihoods, leading to their marriage, their ideals and their sense of self being pushed to breaking point. Winner of the Golden Bear (the Berlin Film Festival's top prize), this is a riveting and urgently relevant political drama.