Showing posts with label when we leave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label when we leave. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

When We Leave

Showing at the Tribeca Film Festival: When We Leave, directed by Feo Aladag

Synopsis from the TFF website:

When young Turkish-German woman Umay can no longer stand her husband's ill-treatment, she flees from Istanbul with her five-year-old son into the arms of her family in Berlin. But love, affection, and loyalty soon become irrelevant as they struggle to reconcile Umay's willful self-determination with the social system that governs their lives. This passion piece on female flight from oppression builds its considerable dramatic intensity to a glowing payoff.

The movie's website is only in German, for now.