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The Banishment

December 2021 - May 2022
BİTLİS, VAN, MARDİN

The Banishment is a fictional short film project written and directed by Yılmaz Özdil. The shooting of The Banishment took place in February 2022 in the Hizan district of Bitlis and the film was completed in May 2022.

Synopsis

Ziko is a young obsessed sleepwalker who has just been banished from his village for a serious crime. When this decision is announced to the neighboring villages, to reach the city, in the middle of winter he has to cross villages which await him with hatred. ignoring all this, the deaf-mute LALO must also cross the same villages the same day.

Isa (Tariq Akreyi) announces Ziko's (Saman Mustafa) excommunication decision in front of the villagers

Trying to pass through a village on the way, Ziko escapes to be lynched by the villagers

Yılmaz Özdil

Yılmaz Özdil was born in Hakkari (1979). After his master's degree at the University Pantheon Sorbonne, in 2013 he defended his doctoral thesis entitled "The visual construction of Kurdish identities in cinema" at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle. He directed several documentaries and worked as an assistant director in several films shot in Turkey, Iraq and France. He is currently working at Mardin Artuklu University as an assistant professor. The Banishment is his second fiction film as a director.

Photo: Adar Baran Değer

This page is published on 10 January 2022.
Last update: 25 April 2022

TAGS: BİTLİS, film, grassroots projects, MARDİN, VAN

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