A Step Into the Darkness
Directed by Atil Inac
Quote:
“Plays like Hurt Locker from the opposite vantage point” —Independent Film Quarterly
Awards:
Best Picture! San Francisco Tiburon Film Festival
Best Picture! Los Angeles S.E. European Film Festival
Best Actress! Best Supporting Actress! Best Music! Best Promising Actress! Ankara International Film Festival
Focus on World Cinema Selection! Montreal International Film Festival!
Opening Night Film! Kerala International Film Festival!
Official Selection! Istanbul Film Festival
Official Selection! Alexandria Egypt Film Festival
Official Selection! Tokyo Skip City Film Festival
Official Selection! Kiev International Film Festival
Official Selection! Sarajevo Winter Film Festival
Official Selection! Ireland Galway Film Festival
Official Selection! Copenhagen Film Festival
Official Selection! Zanzibar International Film Festival
Official Selection! Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival
Synopsis:
A young northern Iraqi girl is the sole survivor of a mistaken military raid on her village, only to be captured by militant Islamists, who plan to use her as an expendable instrument of terror with devastating consequences.
An entire village in northern Iraq is wiped out when misinformed and panicked American soldiers stage a nighttime raid there. Cennet, a young Turkmen girl who has never before left home and is the only survivor of the raid, has no choice but to set out for Kirkuk in search of her older brother, a barber named Azim. When she reaches Kirkuk she learns that Azim has been badly hurt in a bomb blast and taken to Turkey for treatment. Desperate to track him down, Cennet sets off on an arduous journey, her sense of resolve strengthened by blind fury and the fact that she has nothing to lose. A pair of smugglers agrees to help her navigate the perilous mountain passes of northern Iraq and cross illegally into Turkey. When one of them violates her she tries to kill herself. This time, she is rescued by the members of a radical Islamist organization who help her reach Istanbul, where she soon loses all hope that her brother is still alive and finds herself caught in the clutches of a charismatic religious figure who views her as an expendable instrument with which to carry out his devastating plan. Shot under extreme danger conditions. |
