In The Blind Spot
Once a month, the Goethe-Institut collaborates with the Cinémathèque québécoise to present a significant work of contemporary German cinema: fiction films, documentaries, bold and entertaining productions by established and emerging filmmakers.
Winner of the Golden Tulip - National Competition, 2023 International Istanbul Film Festival
A German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power. In The Blind Spot unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.
Ayşe Polat
Ayşe Polat is a German-Kurdish film director, screenwriter and film producer. In the 1990s, she releases several short films, including Gräfin Sophia Hatun in 1997. Her feature film debut Tour Abroad (1999) toured numerous international festivals and partook in the international competition of Karlovy Vary and Tokyo. Polat received the award for best directorial debut at the Ankara International Film Festival for this film. Her second feature film En Garde (2004) was screened as the Locarno Film Festival opening film and received the Silver Leopard for Best Film and Best Actresses, Maria Kwiatkowsky and Pinar Erincin. In 2005, Polat also received the German Critics Award. In 2006, she directed her first theater work Otobüs, a play that deals with the kidnapping of a group of German package tourists in Turkey. She co-produced her third feature film Luks Glück, and produced her 2013 film, The Heiress, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She completed her first documentary, The Others, in 2016. In the Blind Spot, her newest film, won several awards at the both the Ankara and Istanbul Film Festival, including a Golden Tulip.
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