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Brother's Keeper

2021 · 85 min

A slow-burn, claustrophobic experience that traps you in bureaucratic frustration and mounting dread as time runs out.

Overview
Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens to run out.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • friendship
  • power
  • corruption
  • survival
Places
  • school
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Ferit Karahan
Written by
Ferit Karahan, Gülistan Acet
Starring
Samet Yıldız, Nurullah Alaca, Ekin Koç, Mahir İpek, Melih Selçuk, Cansu Fırıncı, Münir Can Cindoruk, Dilan Parlak
Cinematography
Türksoy Gölebeyi
Runtime
85 min
Country
Romania, Turkey
Languages
Turkish, Kurdish

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