Brother's Keeper

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Brother's Keeper

Released Oct 21, 2022

1h 25m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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Yusuf and his best friend Memo are Kurdish pupils at a boarding school secluded in the Anatolian mountains. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help him. When the adults finally understand the seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school is cut off from the world by a heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to find help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on.

Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

This is a heart-rending, bracing story, told with such immediacy that you can take or leave its allegorical elements.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 21, 2022

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Caitlin Quinlan

Sight & Sound

Scarcity and sparseness guide both the visual aesthetic and the narrative, an economy that results in a compelling accumulation of small moments that loom with volatility.

Sep 20, 2022

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Jay Weissberg

Variety

Sophomore director Ferit Karahan mines his own unhappy experiences with this well-made yet predictable drama.

Mar 18, 2021

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Jared Mobarak

The Film Stage

Yildiz is wonderful as Yusuf—his emotions worn on his sleeve throughout. That said, however, the adults deliver the most memorable performances. Their duplicity. Their indignation. Their terror.

Rated: B+

Oct 20, 2022

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Elsa Fernández-Santos

El Pais (Spain)

A desolate account about authority and punishment doled on children in a sinister school program where pedagogy is substituted with humiliation. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 1, 2022

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Eulàlia Iglesias

Fotogramas

Uncovers the senselessness behind authoritarian disciplinary measures and their consequences for the most vulnerable. [Full review in Spanish]

Jun 29, 2022

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Davide l

Simply painfully human as birth and death and the little we have to play with in between,

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/10/24

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Deniz I

This movie depicts the claustrophobic and oppressive structure of the public boarding schools in Turkey with all its reality through the perspective of children. Everyone must see it and I am almost certain that it would help you build a new perspective on how children are forced to navigate within a system that disregards them again and again. It might be based of on Ferit Karahan's own experiences but the movie sheds light on the experiences of millions of people who have had to live through similar experiences. Therefore, the movie even paves a way for healing for those who have been in such environments by making people feel understood and not alone.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/08/22

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Geremia B

Great political allegory, a hidden gem.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/18/22

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Ekin Koç

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Mahir Ipek

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Nurullah Alaca

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Cansu Firinci

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Synopsis

Yusuf and his best friend Memo are Kurdish pupils at a boarding school secluded in the Anatolian mountains. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help him. When the adults finally understand the seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school is cut off from the world by a heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to find help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on.

Director: Ferit Karahan
Producer: Kanat Dogramaci
Screenwriter: Ferit Karahan, Gülistan Acet
Distributor: Altered Innocence
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 21, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 25m