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Expectation

2026 · 100 min

A quiet, uneasy plunge into village suspicion and buried guilt, where truth stays just out of reach and the air feels heavy with unspoken fear.

Directed by
Ali Özel
Genres
Drama
Overview
In a remote village of Anatolia, the dead body of a female doctor creates a deep curiosity among the villagers. The shepherd who didn’t confess his treatment because of his social fear, becomes the main suspect of the incident. Meanwhile for the lawyer the village he visited coincidentally to find peace gradually turns into darkness of expectations which are manipulating the truth or maybe it’s the truth hiding somewhere closer no one dares to look.
How it feels
Dark, tense, melancholic and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Isolation, deception, guilt, justice
Content
Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
Note
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Directed by
Ali Özel
Genres
Drama
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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