Köpek (2015)
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Çağla Akalın, Beren Tuna, Oğuzhan Sancar, Barış Atay
Over one day in Istanbul, three parallel stories follow a boy caring for an orphaned dog, a woman meeting her presumed-dead childhood sweetheart, and a transgender sex worker facing hostility.
The story
Over the course of one day in Istanbul, three stories unfold in parallel. Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues on the street to support his family instead of going to school. After finding an orphaned dog, he cares for it, and through the dog begins talking to a well-liked girl from a good family, though a security guard frightens him. Hayat, married to a suspicious and aggressive man, meets her childhood sweetheart at a teahouse after he contacts her, though she had believed him dead. Ebru, a transgender sex worker, faces homophobic insults and attacks as she tries to win back her ex-boyfriend.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Three stories unfold in parallel over the course of a day in Istanbul. Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues on the street to support his family instead of going to school. He finds an orphaned dog and takes care of it. Through the dog, he eventually starts talking to a well-liked girl from a good family, but a security guard frightens him. Hayat is married to a suspicious and aggressive man. When her childhood sweetheart, whom she believed to be dead, gets in touch, she meets him at a teahouse. Although nothing else happens, she has to explain herself to her husband when she returns. Ebru, a transgender sex worker, constantly has to defend herself against homophobic insults and attacks. She fights in every way she can to win back her ex-boyfriend. But he has chosen a middle-class life and another woman.
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