A Season in Hakkari
(Hakkari'de bir mevsim)

An intellectual is exiled to a small, isolated mountain village in southeastern Turkey to work as a schoolteacher. The inhabitants have to fight a perpetual battle against hostile nature, and the teacher tries to combat the inhuman reality of this place where misery, indifference and the impossibility of communication reign. First, he has to get to know these mountain people, for whom time has stopped somewhere in the roots of history. In this village, tragedy is trivialized by repetition and habit. But the children who remain have a marvelous will to survive…