Where the Fire Burns (Ateşin Düştüğü Yer)

Honor killings are the subject of Where the Fire Burns (Ateşin Düştüğü Yer), a 2012 Turkish drama. Written and directed by İsmail Güneş, it draws on a real honor killing and was made as the closing part of a trilogy. It opened on May 4, 2012. The film was picked as Turkey's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards but did not make the final shortlist.

The story follows Osman and Hatice, a conservative couple with six children who work as laborers on a farm in Antalya. When their sixteen-year-old daughter Ayşe falls ill, a German couple helps get her to a state hospital, where she undergoes emergency heart surgery. During her treatment it emerges that she is three and a half months pregnant. The parents, desperate to save her, suddenly find themselves in the grip of tradition, and the question is whether custom will outweigh a parent's love. Hakan Karahan, Elifcan Ongurlar and Yeşim Ceren Bozoğlu play the leading roles.

Güneş, born in 1961 in Samsun, began his career in 1986 with Gün Doğmadan, and looked at the September 12 period in 1999 with Gülün Bittiği Yer. Part of the "Beyaz Sinema" current, which foregrounds religious themes, he takes a calm, measured view of the subject here, one critic says.