Journey to the Sun (1999)
★ 5.8 (28) · 109 min
Director: Yeşim Ustaoğlu · woman
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd.