My Aunt Came (Halam Geldi) (translated)

Through the daily life of a border village, the 2013 Turkish drama Halam Geldi (My Aunt Came) approaches the problem of child brides. 5. Boyut Stüdyoları made the film and Erhan Kozan directed; Sami Dündar and Atıf Ulusoy produced and Ercüment Vural wrote the music. It was first shown at a special screening at the 50th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and reached cinemas on January 3, 2014. Running about 100 minutes, it was also conceived as a social responsibility project.

The story is set in Akıncılar, a village in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus where church bells answer the call to prayer. Turks from Diyarbakır and Turkish Cypriots live side by side there, and across the line lies the Greek Cypriot village of Limya. Through children's eyes, the film tells the sad story of three thirteen-year-old girls from Diyarbakır, bringing together child brides, disabled children born of marriages between relatives and the border between northern and southern Cyprus. Burçin Terzioğlu plays the mother Benek, Miray Akay Reyhan, Melis Kara Oya and Necip Memili Haluk.

Journalist Evrim Kanpolat adapted the screenplay from a real incident. Reviews noted that the film begins in humor and slides into tragedy while taking on many subjects at once.