IN THE BLIND SPOT

Duration:
123 min

Type:
Fiction

Year:
2023

Director:
Ayşe Polat

Producer:
Mehmet Aktaş (mîtosfilm), Ayşe Polat (PunktPunktPunkt Filmproduktion)

Country:
Germany

Languages:
Turkish, German, English, Kurdish

Subtitles:
English

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. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power.

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 Aboard”. “En Garde” followed in 2003, which won two Silver Leopards for “Best Film” and “Best Actress” at the International Filmfestival Locarno 2004. In 2009 she shot the comedy “Luks Glück” followed by “The Heiress” in 2013 and the documentary “The Others” in 2016. She has directed several TV-movies and is currently working on her new feature film.