Motherland

A slow, suffocating visit to a quiet village where family tension and inner turmoil simmer beneath the surface.

Directed by

Senem Tüzen

Genres

Drama

Starring

Esra Bezen Bilgin, Nihal Koldaş, Fatma Kısa

Overview

Nesrin is an urban, middle-class woman recovering from a divorce. She’s quit her office job, abandoned her house in Istanbul, and come to the village house of her deceased grandmother to finish a novel and live out her childhood dream of being a writer. When her conservative and increasingly unhinged mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin’s writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter as the two are forced to confront the darker corners of each other’s inner worlds.

How it feels

Tense, melancholic, dark and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Family, isolation, identity, obsession

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

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

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