Ayşe Polat – In the blind spot – Im Toten Winkel #BFFB36

April 21, 2023

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ayşe Polat, director of the film In the blind spot – Im Toten Winkel.

In the blind spot, closing film of a trilogy by Ayşe Polat, which premiered in the Encounters Section at the 73rd Berlinale, is in competition at the 36th Bolzano Film Festival. Kurdish German director Ayşe Polat talks about the film wanting to portray the side of the victims but this time, also the perpetrators’ one as a way to know all the perspectives. In the blind spot plays a lot with the supernatural elements as well. As a woman director, Polat also offers her view on the “female gaze” and the status of women in the film industry.

In the blind spot – Im Toten Winkel: A German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7 year – old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family’s well – being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fatef ul encounter of these people develops a destructive power. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.

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In the Blind spot - Im Toten Winkel

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