Film Archive

Brothers

Official Selection - Competition 2018 / Kardeşler / Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria 2017

Seventeen-year-old Yusuf comes home after spending four years at a detention center. His return to the family circle freshly recalls the act that his loved ones, bound by rigid tradition, forced Yusuf to commit. Directed with an assured hand, this intimate debut concerns guilt and punishment and how difficult it is to choose between blood ties and tradition on the one hand, and what is morally right on the other.

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Yusuf comes home after spending four years at a detention center. His return to the family circle, and reuniting with his older brother Ramazan above all, freshly recall the act that the other family members, bound by rigid tradition, forced upon him as the younger son. In his intimate debut Ömür Atay shows an assured directorial hand as he unveils a family tragedy for the audience through a carefully measured release of information, a tragedy that forever disrupts relations between the individual members. With great precision the director portrays young Yusuf’s struggle to choose between blood ties and tradition on the one hand, and what he feels is morally right on the other.

Lenka Tyrpáková

About the film

103 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Ömür Atay / Screenplay Ömür Atay / Dir. of Photography A. Emre Tanyildiz / Music Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Viktor Chouchkov / Editor Doruk Kaya, Amon Guillard / Art Director Emre Yurtseven, Meral Efe Yurtseven / Producer Funda Ödemiş / Production Atay Film / Coproduction Off Film, Fiction 2.0, Chouchkov Brothers / Cast Yiğit Ege Yazar, Caner Şahin, Gözde Mutluer / Contact Atay Film

About the director

Ömür Atay (b. 1969). Filmography: Necropolis (1998, short), Istanbul Tales (Anlat Istanbul, 2006, segment “Little Red Riding Hood”), Brothers (Kardeşler, 2018)