Mustang

DIRECTOR: Deniz Gamze Ergüven   COUNTRIES: France, Turkey, Germany, Qatar   YEAR: 2015   LANGUAGE(S): Turkish   SUBTITLES: German   RUNNING TIME: 97 min  

SECTION: Previews at Cinecittà 2015

SYNOPSIS

It’s the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged. The five sisters, driven by the same desire for freedom, fight back against the limits imposed on them.

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DENIZ GAMZE ERGÜVEN
Born in Ankara in 1978, Deniz Gamze Ergüven had a very cosmopolitan upbringing, between France, Turkey and the United States. She studied directing at La Fémis in Paris, after a BA in literature and an MA in African History at Johannesburg. Her graduation film, BIR DAMLA SU, screened at the Cannes Festival Cinéfondation and won a Leopards of Tomorrow award at the Locarno Festival. Denis Gamze Ergüven developed a debut feature set in South Central, Los Angeles, during the 1992 riots. Titled KINGS, the project was selected by the Cinéfondation Workshop and Sundance Screenwriters Lab. it was set to one side in favor of MUSTANG, co-written with Alice Winocour in the summer of 2012.

FILMOGRAPHY

Mon trajet Préféré (2006), A Drop of Water (2006), Mustang (2014)

SCRIPT: Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour   PRODUCER: Charles Gillibert   CAMERA: David Chizalett, Ersin Gök   EDITOR: Mathilde Van de Moortel   MUSIC: Warren Ellis   CAST: Doğba Doğuslu, Güneş Sensoy, Tuğba Sunguroğlu

PRODUCTION: Aurora Films, BAM Film   WORLD SALES: Kinology   GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR: Weltkino Filmverleih Gmbh