Yurt
Fourteen-year-old Ahmet leaves home for an all-boys religious dormitory, navigating family expectations, religious duties, and holding onto childhood amid environmental and personal changes.
🎭 Top Cast
💰 Box Office
🎬 Technical Specs
🏷️ Keywords
🎯 Categories
⭐ Featured Review
"The story takes place in 1996 in Turkey, but the film is also a reflection on Turkey today, a very divided country, although the power dynamics has changed a lot. The film fits many categories: a family drama, a story of class and religious struggle, a love story, and maybe most importantly a coming of age story. The director was probably influenced by many films, one of them may have been Truffaut's 400 blows. The relationship between Ahmet and Hakan is complex, beautiful and tormented. Contemporary films from Turkey are not afraid of addressing queer feelings and homophobia (Not know..."
💡 Did You Know?
YURT is a Turkish-German-French co-production.
📖 Synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Ahmet leaves home for an all-boys religious dormitory, navigating family expectations, religious duties, and holding onto childhood amid environmental and personal changes.