Director: Ahu Öztürk

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Born in: Istanbul, Turkey
Biography: She studied philosophy and cinema. In 2004, she directed her first documentary ‘Chest’. In 2010, she participated to ‘Tales from Kars’ of Festival on Wheels with her short ‘Open Wound’. ‘Open Wound’ has been showed in many international film festivals such as Rotterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Sarajevo, Beirut. Dust Cloth is her first feature film project and got CNC Award at Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop in Istanbul, April 2012 and the EAVE Scholarship award at Cinelink Co-Production Market in Sarajevo, July 2012.

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Dust Cloth

Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
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Ozan, who is studying at the university, goes to his village after the death of his grandmother. In the village, he learns a lot about the past of his father, whom he is angry with. But he also chooses to run away from reality.
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