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Bye Bye Turtle

Bye Bye Turtle

Bye Bye Turtle

Selin Öksüzoğlu • France, Turkey • 2024

24 min

Synopsis

Inci's mother is dead. That day, while maundering in the deserted plateaus of the Black Sea, the young Inci meets Zeynep (30). Back in the region after a long absence, Zeynep carries a bulky black bag. Even if they are total strangers, Inci and Zeynep join their solitude for a while, wandering over the foggy and sunny mountains, from one father to the other, from dawn to darkness.

Biography and filmography

Selin Öksüzoğlu was born and raised in Turkey. In 2010, she arrived in France and studied psychology. She works as a psychologist with people in exile and youngsters in foster care. In parallel, autodidact, she joined in 2019 the writing residency La Ruche Gindou Cinéma thanks to which she developed her first screenplay Bye Bye Turtle.