In the Blind Spot
Southeast Asian Premiere
Ayşe POLAT Germany 2023 117 min NC16 (Scene of Intimacy and Some Coarse Language)
Forced disappearances, secrets, and many, many cameras add up in this political thriller that gets the better of our truth-starved habits.
In a Turkish village, a German film crew begins shooting a documentary on the forced disappearances of young Kurdish men. As the crew navigate the tense air, their story takes sinister turns. Meanwhile, their translator tutors a child with an uncanny vision, and whose father also feels a threat over his shoulder.
A conspiracy unfolds in three chapters, each shot with a distinct lens. The tension, far from unmasking the web of violence, lingers as doubts about our very own vision: documentary is hard to tell apart from surveillance or psychism. This precisely calculated thriller arrives at a moment where information is a unique terror, speaking to the paranoids in us—but even paranoids have enemies.
7 Dec, Thu 6:30PM / 117 min
Filmgarde Kallang, Hall 2
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
9 Dec, Sat 9:00PM / 117 min
Oldham Theatre
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In the Blind Spot
Im Toten Winkel
Ayşe POLAT
Germany
2023
English, German, Turkish, Kurdish
English
117 min
NC16 (Scene of Intimacy and Some Coarse Language)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Ayşe POLAT
Ayşe POLAT is a Turkish-Kurdish director, scriptwriter and producer based in Germany. Her second feature, En Garde (2004), clinched Best Actress and the Silver Leopard at Locarno. Premiered in the Encounters section at the Berlinale, In the Blind Spot is her sixth feature.
Ahmet VARLI
Çağla YURGA
Nihan OKUTUCU
Mehmet AKTAŞ
Ayşe POLAT
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