THE MANDARIN TREE

IN COMPETITION

Short Fiction

Directed by Cengiz Akaygün

Produced by Philipp Lutz

Germany / 2018 / 18 min / Turkish with English Subtitles.

After her father is arrested for political reasons by the Turkish government, little Sirin is finally allowed to visit him in prison for the first time. When a prison official interprets her painting of a bird as an anarchistic symbol and confiscates it, the girl is devastated, but her father encourages her to believe in the freedom of thought. For her second visit, she paints a "harmless" mandarin tree. Will her hidden message be discovered?

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