A film full of heart and expert editing, Busra was shown in an independent film festival I attended. It was by was the best of the lot. I think the crew, especially the screenwriter and the director have a bright career ahead of them, as despite its very specific plot of a conservative Muslim girl falling in love with an agnostic journalist in Istanbul, my friends and I were hooked into the storyline.
Visually it was striking as well with a very pale and desaturated look that gradually changed as the love story between the two main heroes developed.
It's a shame good and powerful little films like this do not reach the American audience, it could bridge so much more than secular and conservative people of Turkey, and create empathy for Turkey's duality all around the globe.
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