When the Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow

• Mehmet Ali Konar
• 103 min
• Turkey
• 2024
• Fiction

Village chief with son in Turkish Kurdistan caught between Turkish military and PKK in a finely crafted independent slow-cinema coming-of-age drama.

In southeastern Turkey, Kurds who want to live their lives in peace are squeezed between the harassment of Turkish military patrols and the demands of the PKK guerrillas, all while land and pasture are scarce. Ciwan is the village chief, a righteous and humble family man. Day in and day out, he rushes through his village duties and tending to his livestock. Two steps behind him is his 14-year-old son Feyzi, wondering why he has to learn everything right now. What he doesn't know is that his father is seriously ill and time is running out. Mehmet Ali Konar effectively combines harsh realism with magic in his third film about an ever-vulnerable ethnic group, also delivering a heartwarming father-son portrait.

* Youth Jury Dragon Award nominee.

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• Drama
• Familj
• Uppväxt
• Relationer
• Samhälle
• Social utsatthet
• Landsbygd