THE DANCE OF ALİ AND ZÎN

THE DANCE OF ALİ AND ZÎN (GOVENDA ALİ Û ZÎN), 2021
Turkey | HDD, Color, 78’ | Turkish, Kurdish
Director: Mehmet Ali Konar
Cast: Suat Usta, Korkmaz Arslan, Maryam Boubani

Despite all the social and political pressure, Dayka Zîn, who lives in a village near Bingöl, wants to hold a wedding celebration for her son who has recently been killed in Istanbul. Neither her family nor the village people accept this strange request. But the elderly mother is determined to fight for this wedding to take place. This spare and powerful drama won the Yılmaz Güney Award and the SİYAD ‘Cüneyt Cebenoyan’ Best Film Award at the Adana Golden Boll Film Festival.