Filmmaker Miraz Bezar's feature debut takes on the plight of Kurdistan's orphans through the story of a young girl left to fend for herself after being dealt a tragic blow. Gülîstan (Senay Orak) lives in Diyarbakir, where her political activist aunt Yekbun (Berîvan Eminoglu), often visits. One night, while driving home from a wedding, the family is pulled over by paramilitary officers who shoot the parents dead, leaving Gülîstan alone with her brother, Firat (Muhammed Al), and their baby sister. At first, Yekbun helps the children out, but then she leaves to try to secure passage for them to stay in Stockholm. Before long, the kids are forced to sell off their parents' belongings, and eventually they lose access to water and electricity, and the landlord kicks them out. Now homeless, Gülîstan winds up befriending Dilara (Berîvan Ayaz), a call girl who pays the child to distribute flyers, while Firat falls in with a band of thieves. When Gülîstan discovers that one of Dilara's clients—a man with a wife and child of his own—killed her parents, it sets into motion a plan for revenge. Recommended. (K. Fennessy)
Before Your Eyes
Film Movement, 102 min., in Kurdish & Turkish w/English subtitles, not rated, DVD: $24.95 Volume 27, Issue 3
Before Your Eyes
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