Rooftop Movie Night
Direction: Hüseyin Tabak, colour, 86 Min., 2012
Veysel (12), half Kurd, half Turk, fled from Turkey to Austria with his family and has only been living in Vienna for a few months. At school he is a shy outsider, who is considered a problem student because he doesn’t speak the language. At home his older brother Mazlum (18) rebels against their father, who in Mazlum’s eyes left the family to fend for itself for many years while he went off to be a Kurdish freedom fighter in the mountains. When the conflict between the father and the elder son culminates in an actual physical struggle, Mazlum runs away from home. This triggers an argument between the parents.
All these problems and conflicts threaten to overwhelm 12-year-old Veysel, if it weren’t for his only lifeline: the daydreams in which he seeks refuge with his precious Ana. Ana is a girl in his class with whom he is very much in love but who in reality knows nothing of his feelings for her.
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