The story homes in on Lorik, who's barely thirty years old yet who works as an enforcer for the Albanian mafia in Brussels, alongside his mentor Aleks. And when Lorik falls in love with Sema, a Fine Arts student of Turkish origins, his past comes back to haunt him: a man hailing from Lorik's village in Albania, whose father was killed by the latter's uncle, tracks down the young man and demands that his family's debt be paid for in blood, as per the Kanun tradition. In short, he asks the clan for Lorik's death.
This 2015 documentary by Amine Mestari delves deep into Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s film MUSTANG, featuring extensive interviews with the director and cast, as well as exploring the film in the context of the politically volatile situation in Turkey.
En un pequeño pueblo, al norte de Turquía, cinco hermanas huérfanas de edades comprendidas entre los doce y los dieciséis años pasan el verano en un jardín paradisíaco de risas y juegos inocentes sobre las olas del Mar Negro con los chicos de la escuela. Sin embargo, la condición de la mujer en el país no tardará en provocar rumores de inmoralidad y escándalo de las jóvenes, así que sus familiares, a través de la abuela y el tío, deciden hacerse cargo del asunto; esto es, prepararlas y precipitarlas hacia su destino de futuras esposas.
