Gazelle

A slow, disorienting plunge into one man's loneliness and obsession, where the city feels alien and memory keeps slipping.

Directed by

Nadir Sarıbacak, Samy Pioneer

Genres

Drama

Starring

Nadir Sarıbacak, Faysal Ahmed, Ayhan Hulagu

Tagline

Exile is only the beginning.

Overview

Yakup, a Turkish music teacher seeking asylum in New York, is separated from his wife and young daughter, who remain under surveillance back home. When his asylum case stalls, he faces an impossible choice: wait years for legal reunification or risk everything to bring his family out by dangerous, clandestine means. Alone in an unfamiliar city, Yakup becomes increasingly consumed by the distance between himself and his family. As the wait stretches on, his obsession with reuniting his family begins to warp his sense of time, memory and reality. The more desperate he becomes, the less certain he is of who to trust and what is happening around him.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Isolation, family, obsession, identity

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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