Les Enfants Terribles (18+)
Second Silver Nanook and the award of 60 000 rubles;
Audience Award.
Audience Award.
France – Turkey – Germany, 2021, colour, 93 min.
Director: Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Director: Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Zeynep dreams of a higher education and her brother Mahmut of leaving his arranged marriage. This is enough to outrage their patriarchal father and cause a stir in their rural hometown in the east
of Turkey. Here, traditions, expectations and obligations rule life, not self-fulfillment. When Mahmut and Zeynep start questioning the role that is imposed on them, it is considered as sacrilegious disobedience. Will they manage to break out of a world that’s suffocating them and build up a self-defined, independent life?
With painful honesty their journey is intimately captured by their brother and filmmaker Ahmet Necdet Cupur.
of Turkey. Here, traditions, expectations and obligations rule life, not self-fulfillment. When Mahmut and Zeynep start questioning the role that is imposed on them, it is considered as sacrilegious disobedience. Will they manage to break out of a world that’s suffocating them and build up a self-defined, independent life?
With painful honesty their journey is intimately captured by their brother and filmmaker Ahmet Necdet Cupur.
AWARDS
Visions du Réel (Switzerland, 2021) – Special Jury Award.
Russian premier
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
was born in a village situated by the Syrian border in Turkey. He obtained a civil engineering diploma and worked three years in Iraq and Afghanistan during the war. In one of his journeys, he shot a short film in Romania and decided to be a filmmaker. He left his engineering job and moved to Paris. Les Enfants terribles is his first feature-length documentary.
FILMOGRAPHY
Les Enfants terribles, 2021.
Second Silver Nanook and the award of 60 000 rubles;
Audience Award.
Audience Award.
France – Turkey – Germany, 2021, colour, 93 min.
Director: Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Director: Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Zeynep dreams of a higher education and her brother Mahmut of leaving his arranged marriage. This is enough to outrage their patriarchal father and cause a stir in their rural hometown in the east
of Turkey. Here, traditions, expectations and obligations rule life, not self-fulfillment. When Mahmut and Zeynep start questioning the role that is imposed on them, it is considered as sacrilegious disobedience. Will they manage to break out of a world that’s suffocating them and build up a self-defined, independent life?
With painful honesty their journey is intimately captured by their brother and filmmaker Ahmet Necdet Cupur.
of Turkey. Here, traditions, expectations and obligations rule life, not self-fulfillment. When Mahmut and Zeynep start questioning the role that is imposed on them, it is considered as sacrilegious disobedience. Will they manage to break out of a world that’s suffocating them and build up a self-defined, independent life?
With painful honesty their journey is intimately captured by their brother and filmmaker Ahmet Necdet Cupur.
AWARDS
Visions du Réel (Switzerland, 2021) – Special Jury Award.
Russian premier