Going: My Marlon and Brando (Gitmek: My Marlon And Brando) (translated)

Gitmek: Benim Marlon ve Brandom is a dramatic, political love story told as a road movie, released in Turkey on November 14, 2008, as Hüseyin Karabey's first feature. A naive, Western-minded Turkish woman loves an older man from the East, and the film sets that love against borders and war on a journey from Istanbul into Northern Iraq. Turkish, Kurdish and English are all spoken, and the independent production had foreign and ministry support.

The story is real: the screenplay follows the relationship between actress Ayça Damgacı and Hama Ali, an actor from Iraqi Kurdistan, and the two leads play versions of their own lives. They fall in love on a film set, and when shooting ends he goes home to Northern Iraq. When the Iraq War breaks out a reunion becomes almost impossible, and while everyone else runs from the fighting, Ayça heads the opposite way, west to east. Cengiz Bozkurt, Nesrin Cavadzade, Mahir Günşıray and Ani İpekkaya also appear.

Filming ran through November and December 2007 along the roughly 6,000-kilometre route of the story, from Istanbul to Van, then Urmia, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. Karabey wrote the screenplay with Damgacı. Censorship attempts made headlines and suggested propaganda; one review counters that Karabey pursues no Kurdish nationalism, only a love that endured the occupation.