Berivan Yurtsevener

As a girl grows up, her world starts to become more complicated. She notices lines appearing on people's faces that she hadn't noticed before. While trying to see the hidden lives in between her neighbors' facial features, her own face struggles to ignore an unwanted line from her childhood.

“Hür Adam” or “Free Man” in English is the real-life story of a very influential Kurdish scholar in Turkey that had lived between 1877-1960, 'Said Nursi'. A writer, philosopher, and philanthropist, he compiled many books on Islam covering various themes of faith, brotherhood, and philanthropy and exploring the reasons behind societal weakness, poverty, ignorance, and divisions.

Based on Osman Şahin's "Irgat Erleri" and Korhan Yurtsever's "Zincir," this film, adapted for the screen by Macit Koper, tells the story of a peasant couple who work as a night watchman (Zülfo) and a cleaner (Elif) at an amusement park. Before coming to the city, the couple worked as laborers in Çukurova and lost their daughter in a fire, which caused Elif to develop schizophrenia.