FRED’s Nicolò Comotti interviews Senem Tuzen, director of the film ANA YURDU (Motherland) from the International Critics Week section of the 72nd Venice Film Festival. Senem Tuzen reveals the secrets and influences behind her intense feature.
ANA YURDU (Motherland): Nesrin, an urban middle class woman recovering from a divorce, goes back to her deceased grandmother’s old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. When her conservative mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin’s writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter. The two women are forced to confront the darker corners of each other’s inner worlds
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Clio Barnard's I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning leads the Rome Film Fest 2026 winners, with major awards also going to Congo Boy, Mustang and The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd. The complete list of winners and the festival's …
At the Rome Film Fest 2026 with Me, You, protagonist Sonia Ammar on Caia, the young woman at the heart of Bille August’s film and on the invisible scars of war