THE SWAYING WATERLILY

Handan (39) and Korhan (40) live in a fancy neighborhood in İstanbul. Life is good—or perhaps not? The family has forgotten how to communicate, how to be close, even to show the slightest interest in one another. Handan wants to escape this emptiness and dreams of personal fulfillment.

In his much-awaited second feature, Seren Yüce diagnoses the social maladies of contemporary upper-class Turkish families with a calm precision. Depicting characters who are trapped in their comfort zone, he dares viewers to stare into the emotional void of an increasingly disconnected community.