Title: Mustang
Original Title: Mustang
Year: 2015
Info
- Country: France Germany
- Language: Turkish
- Length: 97 Minutes (1 hour 37 min)
- Budget: €1,300,000
- Genre: Drama
- Studios: CG Cinéma Arte
- Distributor: A Contracorriente Films
Release Dates
- UK: May 13 2016
- United States: November 20 2015
Plot
One of the big winners at the 60th International Film Festival of Valladolid (Seminci), with six awards, including the Silver Spike. 'Mustang' tells the story of a group of five orphaned sisters who are between 12 and 16 years old. Their lives like teenagers are an oasis where everything is laughter and joy, they're living in a small town near the Black Sea in north of Turkey. The teenage boys at school they go to look curiously. But this happiness will not last long. To be a woman in a country like Turkey is not easy and gossip hang over the five small. Being labeled as obscene, their only family (their grandmother and their uncle) decided to put a quick solution to the problem. Both will soon solve these rumors preparing them and forcing them to behave as good wives, who impose them marriage to five sisters.
Awards
- 2016 Academy Awards (Oscars): 1 0
- 2016 Golden Globes: 1 0
- 2017 BAFTA Awards: 1 0
- 2016 Goya Awards: 1 1
Cast
Director:
Lale
Selma
Ece
Sonay
The Grandmother
Videos
February 7 2016
November 8 2015
Photos
Trivia
First French film to be selected for an Oscar in being filmed in Turkish language.
The filmmaker was inspired by her own childhood to create her film.
Turkey criticized the image that was given to the country in the film.
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