Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
The struggle and collapse of a family that comes from a small city to İstanbul with the hope of having a better life.
The crowning achievement of Halit Refiğ’s extraordinary career, Birds of Exile was the first film to draw attention to the issue of internal migration within Turkey. An adaptation of the social realist master Orhan Kemal’s novel, this family drama tracks the changing nature of Istanbul.