Directed by: Deniz Gamze Erguven
Staring: Gunes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu & Tugba Sunguroglu
In a village in Northern Turkey, in early summer, Lale and her four sisters are on their way home from school, and innocently play on the beach with some of their male classmates. A neighbour passing by observes what she considers to be illicit behaviour and reports this to the girls’ family. The family overreacts by removing all ‘instruments of corruption’, like cell phones and computers, and their home is progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homemaking replaces school and marriages start being arranged. The five sisters who share a common passion for freedom, find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them, in order to determine their own lives.