Burning Days (2022)
Kurak Günler
A pig hunt in the middle of town.
With the mayoral election approaching, the newly-appointed state prosecutor of a small town suffering from a water supply crisis gradually descends into trouble after a young local woman is raped.
- Date of release
- 2022-12-09
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (149)
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Director
- Emin Alper
Casting
- Selahattin Paşalı — Emre
- Ekin Koç — Murat
- Selin Yeninci — Zeynep
- Erol Babaoğlu — Şahin
- Erdem Şenocak — Kemal
- Sinan Demirer — İlhan
- Nizam Namidar — Selim
- Ali Seçkiner Alıcı — Yavuz
- Eylül Ersöz — Pekmez
- Onur Gürçay — Doctor
- Mehmet Kervancı — Boy
- Hatice Aslan — Emre's Mother
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: European Film Award for Best Editor
Burning Days is a Turkish-French drama and mystery thriller film, directed by Emin Alper and released in 2022. A young prosecutor Emre is transferred to a small town in Anatolia Province and encounters an environmental and corruption scandal around the control of water. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it was a nominee for the Queer Palm, before premiering in Turkey at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in October 2022.
Background
Central Turkey has an increasing problem of sinkholes forming due to groundwater depletion, as there has been less precipitation.
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