DUST CLOTH - Toz Bezi

DIR Ahu Öztürk / Turkey / 2015 / 98 MIN / w/ English Subtitles / PG

SHOWTIMES

Sunday June 11th at 2:45pm

SYNOPSIS

Two cleaning ladies, their relationships with the people whose homes they clean, the conflicts in their daily lives, the hierarchies in their close friendships and family relations, their struggle to cling to life, as well as womanhood and motherhood, housecleaning and poverty...

Shuttling between the destitution and wealth of the city, Nesrin and Hatun try to understand life and find a way of their own. As Hatun tries to save up enough money to buy a home in a neighborhood where she cleans houses, Nesrin struggles with the absence of her husband and her own loneliness, while also trying to find a way through life with her five year-old daughter. The paths of these two women may be different, but their companionship is enduring as they cling to disparate dreams.

CAST

Asiye Dinçsoy, Didem Inselel, Ibrahim Iris

AWARDS:

Istanbul International Film Festival, Best Actress, Asiye Dinçsoy

Istanbul International Film Festival, Best Screenplay, Ahu Öztürk

Istanbul International Film Festival, Golden Tulip, National Competition / Best Turkish Film Of The Year, Ahu Öztürk

FESTIVALS:

66th Internationale Filmfestpiele Berlin Forum, 2016

28th Ankara Film Festival, 2017

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, 2017

11th International Female Film Festival Malmo, 2017

TRAILER:

https://vimeo.com/152981366