In the Blind Spot
In the Blind Spot
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COUNTRY Germany YEAR: 2023 RUNTIME: 117 min
DIRECTED BY: Ayşe Polat
LANGUAGE(S): Turkish, German, English, Kurdish
SUBTITLE(S): German
CAST: Katja Bürkle, Ahmet Varlı, Çağla Yurga, Tudan Ürper, Nihan Okutucu
SCRIPT: Ayşe Polat
PRODUCED BY: Janna Heine, Mehmet Aktaş
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Patrick Orth
EDITED BY: Serhad Mutlu, Jörg Volkmar
SCORE: Dynamedion
SCREENINGS
SYNOPSIS
A German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl.
Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family’s well-being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. As these people are drawn together by a fateful encounter, a destructive power begins to unleash itself. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma
Ayşe Polat
The German-Kurdish director, screenwriter and producer Ayşe Polat was born in Malatya, Turkey and grew up in Hamburg, Germany. After numerous internationally award-winning short films, she made her first feature film in 1999, titled TOUR ABROAD. She has directed several TV-movies and is currently working on her new feature film
Tour Abroad (1999), En Garde (2004), Luks Glück (2009), Im toten Winkel (2023)
PRODUCER: mîtosfilm (info@mitosfilm.com)
WORLD SALES: Arthood Entertainment Gmbh (info@arthoodentertainment.com)
GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR: missingFILMs (verleih@missingfilms.de)