Showing: Sunday October 9th at 8pm
Venue: Garter Lane Arts Centre

From the complicated relationship between a child and his mother to the story of a child and his father. The final part of Kaplanoglu’s trilogy arrives at Yusuf’s childhood although the sense of time and place is deliberately distorted as dream sequences converge with reality in six-year-old Yusuf’s story. As he goes through the trauma of beginning school, he refuses to talk and dreams are his only way to communicate. Young Bora Altaş is remarkable as Yusuf and there is some superlative photography by Barış Özbiçer. Set in the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, Bal is a beautiful meditation on familial love and the mysteries of nature. – 16th London Turkish Film Festival 2010

Winner – Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2010