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Ember is a likely candidate for further festival life and … joining the specialty art house fare

Screen Daily
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Zeki Demirkubuz
  • Turkey, Germany 2016
  • 145 minutes
  • Turkish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Cemal goes to Romania in search of work and is arrested there. Back home, his son needs an immediate surgery and his wife Emine is alone and desperate. At a garment workshop, where she does hand stitching, Emine meets Ziya, Cemal’s former boss. Ziya offers to pay for the surgery. Months pass, Cemal returns home and finds that Emine is working and the child is healthy. And then he discovers the hospital bill.
Filmography: Nausea (2015), Inside (2012), Envy (2009), Destiny (2006), The Waiting Room (2004), Fate (2002), Confession (2001), The Third Page (1999), Innocence (1997), C Blok (1994).


  • Director Zeki Demirkubuz
  • Production Başak Emre, Ahmet Boyacıoğlu
  • Script Zeki Demirkubuz
  • Cinematography Sercan Sert
  • Editing Zeki Demirkubuz
  • Festivals Istanbul, Toronto
  • Actors Aslıhan Gürbüz, Caner Cindoruk, Taner Birsel, İştar Gökseven, Çağlar Çorumlu
  • Source Gezici Film, Ankara

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