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In the Blind Spot

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A German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly women performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and and fear for his family's well being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.

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Joseph Fahim Middle East Eye 12/25/2023
Gripping from start to finish, Polat’s finest film to date serves as an exploration of the violence unleashed by the Erdogan regime on the Kurdish population; a snapshot of a lawless place governed by xenophobia and paranoia. Go to Full Review Ezequiel Boetti Otroscines.com 11/10/2023
3.5/5
In the Blind Spot manages to work without falling into the abyss of the kind of movies destined to point out the great problems of the world. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Pablo De Vita La Nación (Argentina) 11/09/2023
3/5
... This commendable work of fiction begins as a mockumentary and then irrupts into a thriller. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Jay Weissberg The Film Verdict 06/08/2023
Ayşe Polat doesn’t give a history lesson about Kurdish oppression but rather allows it to shrewdly infuse the script, underlining the ways in which repression malignantly attaches itself to the social fabric and rips it apart. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Ayşe Polat

Director

Katja Bürkle

Simone

Ahmet Varlı

Zafer

Çağla Yurga

Melek

Aybi Era

Leyla

Max Hemmersdorfer

Christian
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Synopsis A German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly women performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and and fear for his family's well being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.
Director
Ayşe Polat
Producer
Mehmet Aktas, Janna Heine
Screenwriter
Ayşe Polat
Production Co
Mitosfilm, PunktPunktPunkt Filmproduktion
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
German
Runtime
1h 58m