It’s early summer in a coastal Turkish village on the Black Sea, where five beautiful young orphaned sisters are living with their grandmother and uncle. The carefree girls are spotted by a neighbor as they play innocently with some male classmates. The damage has been done and their unbending guardians immediately start arranging marriages for them. The girls become prisoners in their own home and are forced to take virginity tests. As the older ones are married off - the younger sisters watch and wait in fear, determined to escape a similar fate. Deniz Gamze Erguven captures the loving bond of sisterhood and the young women’s growing sexuality in her beautiful and sensitive first feature. MUSTANG is France’s submission for this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
(Turkey/France 2015) 94 minutes
