Journey to the Sun
6
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1999-02-16
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Drama
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to return the body to Berzan's home village near the Iraqi border, and learns why so many Kurds are refugees.
Featured Crew
| Yeşim Ustaoğlu | Director |
| Yeşim Ustaoğlu | Writer |
| Ezel Akay | Executive Producer |
| Behrooz Hashemian | Producer |
| Pit Riethmüller | Co-Producer |
| Phil van der Linden | Co-Producer |
| Vlatko Stefanovski | Original Music Composer |
| Jacek Petrycki | Director of Photography |
| Nicolas Gaster | Editor |
| Natali Yeres | Production Design |
