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Brother's Keeper

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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.

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Glenn Kenny RogerEbert.com 10/21/2022
3/4
This is a heart-rending, bracing story, told with such immediacy that you can take or leave its allegorical elements. Go to Full Review Caitlin Quinlan Sight & Sound 09/20/2022
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. Go to Full Review Jay Weissberg Variety 03/18/2021
Sophomore director Ferit Karahan mines his own unhappy experiences with this well-made yet predictable drama. Go to Full Review Jared Mobarak The Film Stage 10/20/2022
B+
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. Go to Full Review Elsa Fernández-Santos El Pais (Spain) 07/01/2022
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] Go to Full Review Eulàlia Iglesias Fotogramas 06/29/2022
Uncovers the senselessness behind authoritarian disciplinary measures and their consequences for the most vulnerable. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Davide l @RT55580789 04/10/2024 Simply painfully human as birth and death and the little we have to play with in between, See more Read all reviews
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Ferit Karahan

Director

Samet Yildiz

Yusuf

Ekin Koç

Teacher Selim

Mahir Ipek

Headmaster

Nurullah Alaca

Memo

Cansu Firinci

Teacher Hamza
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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
Turkish
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 21, 2022, Limited
Runtime
1h 21m