BORNOVA BORNOVA

The movie takes place in a time when dreams are reduced to almost nothing and when it’s difficult to remain sane. Ordinary life becomes a one greater expectation.

Sharing the main prize at Turkey’s top film festival, this second feature from Inan Temelkuran takes to the streets of its titular city with a present-tense immediacy. Utilizing a striking cinema verité_approach, Bornova Bornova unflinchingly charts the cultural contradictions of modern day Turkey.