Can

Can

2011 / 106'/ 35mm

Director: Raşit Çelikezer

Cast: Selen Uçer, Serdar Orçin, Yusuf Berkan Demirbağ, Erkan Avci, İdil Yener

Language: Turkish

Awards: 2012 Sundance Film Festival: Special Jury Award Best Drama, 48^th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival: Behlul Dal Special Jury Award, Antalya City Council Audience Award

Loving Istanbul couple Ayse and Cemal need only a child to complete their life together, but they cannot conceive. To salvage Cemal’s pride, they resort to illegal means to procure a baby. This wild grab at a more perfect life proves their undoing, leading the couple to spiral toward separate futures. The couple's estrangement is intertwined with the film’s parallel narrative, in which a distant and neglectful single mom is raising her little boy, Can. The film made its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival.