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Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
2015, Turkey/France, 97 min
Turkish w/ English Subtitles
Mustang, an astonishing feature debut by Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven, and the winner of 31 major awards, is back by popular demand. It is a story of the fierce love of five free-spirited teenaged sisters set one summer in a village in Northern Turkey. One day, as the sisters are playing on the beach with their male classmates, a neighbour passes by and reports their supposed illicit behaviour to their family and they are sentenced to be housebound.Their cell phones and computers removed, the girls are essentially imprisoned and subjected to endless lessons in housework in preparation for their inevitable marriages. When the eldest sisters are successfully married off, the younger ones bond together in an attempt to escape their fate. Hilarious, heartbreaking and suspenseful, Mustang is a powerful portrait of female empowerment.
