Film Screening:

Köksüz / Nobody's Home

(Deniz Akçay, 2013, 81 min, Turkey, in Turkish w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) 

-- Introduced by Prof. Erdag Goknar (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies); Q&A to follow!!

Nobody's Home is the story of four people who cannot manage to become a family again after a loss and who destroy each other with each passing day. After her husband's death, Nurcan is left alone with her grown-up daughter Feride and two younger children, Ilker and Ozge. Little by little, the eldest child, Feride, is forced by her mother to become the head of the family and shoulder all the responsibilities that entails. As the only son, devoted to his father's memory, Ilker reacts fiercely when his sister Feride takes charge, and feels alienated from the family. As a teenager in need of her family more than ever, Ozge is unable to reach out to her mother or her sister, both of whom are wrapped up in their own grief. She tries, in vain, to attract attention, to feel a part of the family, to "belong".

-- Winner of People's Choice Award in Istanbul International Film Festival (2014)!

-- Winner for Best Actress and Best Film in Nuremberg Film Festival "Turkey-Germany" (2014)!

-- 2 awards and 5 nominations in SIYAD Turkish Film Critics Association Award (2014)!

"Tragedy is just around the corner, and Nobody's Home lets us see this tragedy, in all its inescapability."-- Cineuropa

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), the Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC), the Global Education Office for Undergraduates (GEO)/Duke in Istanbul, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).