Black Field

This delicately crafted period piece drifts through many of the eternal sensations surrounding human life: this is a timeless tale of fear and passion, love and confusion. It is 1654. A runaway janissary arrives heavily wounded at a remote Christian female monastery. As a man, and an Ottoman soldier, the janissary is regarded essentially as a wild animal by the nuns, who have him chained as they nurse him back to health. Among others, he is nursed by Anthi, a young Greek nun who has taken an oath of silence. Like all nuns, but maybe a little more, Anthi is curious, awed and fascinated each time she enters his room. They fall in love against all odds. As the nuns discuss turning him in to the Ottoman army, Anthi helps him escape, and escapes with him. But Anthi has a dark secret as well; one, which the first night spent together in the forest, will reveal. A cross-gender love story inspired by historic events, Black Field is both a dark fairytale for adults, and a visual poem about uncontrollable desires. –!f Istanbul