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Zenne Dancer
Zenne Dancer
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ZENNE DANCER

Zenne

Directed by M. Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay
Turkey, 2011
Drama, LGBTQ+

Synopsis

German photographer Daniel Bert, who comes to Istanbul to do photo shoots, meets Can, who is a zenne at a nightclub, and Ahmet, who comes from a conservative eastern family.

Synopsis

German photographer Daniel Bert, who comes to Istanbul to do photo shoots, meets Can, who is a zenne at a nightclub, and Ahmet, who comes from a conservative eastern family.

Our take

Based on a true story of honor killing, Zenne Dancer is a courageous work of radical defiance. The emphasis on the collective euphoria that emits from drag performances, which are exuberantly visualized, profoundly evokes how queer artistic expression soars above the conservatism of Turkish society.