Istanbul, 2023. Nora, a young transgender woman, received the “Çürük Raporu” at the age of 20, a certificate issued by the Turkish State categorizing her as a deviant citizen. Today, she has to sell her body for sex to earn a living. With the presidential elections approaching, Nora keeps hope alive and tries to live.
Marion Molinari studied international law and cinema at the Ecole de la Cité. She lived in Turkey and Pakistan before travelling around South America as a press correspondent. Particularly sensitive to social struggles and the defence of biodiversity, she writes and directs documentary and fiction films that combine these two perspectives.
Filmography
1118 (2021); Le Poids des Mots (2018)
Tuğçe Karabacak studied communication and cinema at the Université d'été de la Fémis, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and Istanbul's Galatasaray University, where she met Marion Molinari. She has self-produced and directed several short films and continues her cinematographic work in the fields of documentary and fiction. She also works as a film critic and photographer. Settled in France in 2020, she is currently working on her first feature film.
Filmography
Çürük (2024)