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My Father's Bones

2019 · 98 min

A gentle, bittersweet journey back to a place you swore off, mixing quiet regret with small human warmth.

Overview
My Father’s Bones is the tragicomic story of a man who left his own village when he was a teenager because of an unpleasant incident. He swears never to return to his village. But one day he has to take a trip to his village to get his father’s bones to fulfill his mother’s last will.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • grief
  • memory
  • identity
  • redemption
Places
  • countryside
  • road trip
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Özkan Çelik
Written by
İsmail Doruk
Starring
Cem Davran, Ömer Aydede, Goncagül Sunar, Tanju Tuncel, Uğur Çavuşoğlu
Cinematography
Serdar Özdemir
Runtime
98 min
Country
Turkey
Languages
Turkish

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