Kubilay Ören

After a brawny alum learns how his classmates truly feel about him, he schemes to give them a lesson on payback during a 20-year high school reunion.

Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul neighbourhood, in order to keep up with the rent.