Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
BUTTERFLIES
Kelebekler
Synopsis
In the Turkish village of Hasanlar, three siblings who neither know each other nor anything about their late father, wait to bury his body. As they start to find out more about their father and about each other, they also start to know more about themselves.
Synopsis
In the Turkish village of Hasanlar, three siblings who neither know each other nor anything about their late father, wait to bury his body. As they start to find out more about their father and about each other, they also start to know more about themselves.
Our take
A Grand Jury Prize-winner in Sundance, Butterflies brings deadpan humor and a touch of absurdism to the estranged family drama. Tolga Karaçelik creates a twisted world befitting of a modern folk tale with a village full of exploding chickens and a Turkish astronaut with existential angst!