A documentary tragicomedy of a father-daughter relationship, told by the subjective perspective of the young director. She tries to understand how a revolutionary could have become a criminal and an alcoholic, and why he abandoned his family. Freely juggling between documentary, fiction and animation, the director takes us on a journey around the world. The daughter of a former communists visits the ports of the revolt, where communities are trying to realize the concrete utopia.
Direction
Genre-hopping chaos—animation, fiction, documentary, zero rules.
Writing
Tragicomedy that actually earns both halves of the word.
Director
Ufuk Emiroglu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film traces Turkey's revolutionary movements through personal memory, connecting 1968 idealism to contemporary disillusionment across diaspora communities.
Emiroglu shot in multiple countries including Switzerland and Turkey without traditional funding, mirroring her father's own border-crossing existence.