film profile], has just world-premiered in the Berlinale s Panorama section. Set in a boarding school for Kurdish boys in Eastern Anatolia, it explores the issues of cruelty and authority, but in a way that would make it more suited to a Generation slot – provided that the film was indeed devised in a way to target a young audience. And it definitely does not feel that way.
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Our hero is 11-year-old Yusuf (
Samet Yıldız), who is trying to protect his shy, insecure friend Mehmet (
Nurullah Alaca), aka Memo, in the ruthless environment of the school in which everyone, including the headmaster, the teachers and the janitors, are being bullied and are bullying others. After being punished for unruliness in the shower by being forced to bathe in cold water while the temperature outside the snow-covered school is minus 35 degrees, Memo falls ill. But there is no nurse or doctor around; the school just has a sick room, where one
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