A Tale of Three Sisters(HKAFF 2019)

After winning the Venice Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize in 2015 with Frenzy, writer-director Emin Alper returns with a tragicomic family drama that draws on the traditional practice of "besleme" in which poor girls are taken in as foster children/housemaids by well-off families. Sisters Reyhan, Nurhan and Havva are sent to town to become besleme for different families. For various reasons, they all eventually return home to their isolated, rural village in central Anatolia. Amid stunning vistas of rolling hills and snow-capped mountains, the sisters struggle together against provincial misery while yearning for a better life elsewhere.