Door (Kapı) (translated)

Nihat Durak directed the Turkish drama Kapı ("Door"), released on 12 April 2019. Telling the story of a Syriac family from Mardin, it centres on the city and a fading Syriac culture. Produced by Durak Film, it runs 110 minutes. It marks Kadir İnanır's return: it was his first film after a seven-year break and his last role before retirement.

The hero is Yakup, a wood craftsman from Midyat. He and his wife Şemsa emigrated from Mardin to Berlin years ago and built a calm life there with their children and grandchildren. One day a phone call from Mardin brings word of Mikhael, the son they lost twenty-five years earlier, and reopens an old wound. The couple return home with their granddaughter Nardin. Yakup finds the village abandoned, his house looted and the door he built with his son torn out. With Nardin and the smuggler Remzi he sets out after it, to Kayseri and then Istanbul. Kadir İnanır plays Yakup and Vahide Perçin plays Şemsa, with Timur Acar as Remzi, Aybüke Pusat as Nardin and Erdal Beşikçioğlu as Efrem.

Filiz Üstün Durak wrote and produced; Eyüp Boz shot it, Güldiyar Tanrıdağlı composed and Akın Denizli edited. Mardin filming covered Midyat, Savur and the Syriac village of Killit (Dereiçi).