Çağıl Nurhak Aydoğdu

Cihan is preparing for university with great excitement. When she wins the university, as she imagines, she finds another tention: "Love". Cihan felt that she had just started to live, in fact, she had a disease without treatment and Figen (her mother) is the first who learns it. As long as Cihan lives, Figen started a big fight for her life so that Cihan could spend the rest of her life as unique and as she deserved.

Yarim (The Half) is the story of two halves setting out to become a whole, of the efforts made by two children to play the existing male-female roles. Fidan is a 15-year-old shepherd girl who lives in poverty with her family in a village in eastern Turkey. Her father gives her as a bride to an unknown family. Her husband, Salih, is mentally challenged; although he has a physical age of 35, his mental age is lower than Fidan’s. (via cinema.indiana.edu)