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Sardunya (Geranium), the director's first feature film, is about a dramatic father-daughter relationship in a middle-upper-class family. In the movie, the dead-ends and conflicts of this relationship, which we watch from beginning to end as a "fight for competence", are handled on the basis of a legal event. In a family where the mother is absent; diseases, drugs, laws, bureaucracy and legal process intervene between father and daughter. That is, lack of mourning turns into intense conflict and anger triggered by all these actions. I think that the director's cinematographic success is in this direction. Because I think it is very difficult to visualize a psychic conflict concretely. In this sense, the film offers a great visual feast. I definitely recommend Sardunya, which returned with the best first film, best cinematography and best actress awards from the IKSV Istanbul Film Festival. It is one of the films worth watching in new-age Turkish cinema.