...there’s a sense of propulsion and urgency here, driven by Judith Kaufmann’s cinematography and Marvin Miller’s music, with an added layer of the constant overlap of the world of theatre and the real.

A well-observed and performed family drama. It’s heartbreaking to watch Namal and Biçer getting ratty with one another, as the pressure builds and Çatak’s slicing dialogue ricochets

İlker Çatak’s political drama about an avant garde theatre couple whose family life begins to unravel when their work is targeted by the government has much to say about artistic censorship.

Catak places the viewer through the wringer, posing difficult questions about the fragile boundary between pragmatic survival and moral compromises when making art under authoritarian rule.