Director: Nehir Tuna
Fourteen-year-old Ahmet has no say in the matter: sent away by his father, he lands inside a strict all-boys religious dormitory in Yurt, a 2024 France-Germany-Turkey co-production directed by Nehir Tuna.
What is Yurt about?
Pulled from a comfortable middle-class household, Ahmet has to adapt fast to the rules, rhythms, and expectations of dormitory life, where religious obligation shapes nearly every hour of the day. The film tracks his effort to hold onto pieces of the childhood he is being asked to leave behind while navigating friendships, authority figures, and his own family's shifting demands. Doğa Karakaş plays Ahmet, with Can Bartu Arslan among the boys who share his new surroundings, giving the coming-of-age story its emotional center through small, specific moments rather than dramatic confrontation.
Cast & crew
Doğa Karakaş anchors the film as Ahmet, supported by Can Bartu Arslan and Ozan Çelik as fellow students inside the dormitory. Tansu Biçer, Didem Ellialtı, Orhan Güner, Işıltı Su Alyanak, and Ozan Bilen round out a cast of teachers, relatives, and peers whose choices press in on Ahmet from every direction.
Context & significance
At 118 minutes, Yurt is a France-Germany-Turkey co-production that premiered in the festival circuit before reaching wider audiences, part of a recent run of coming-of-age dramas set inside religious educational institutions. Rather than judging the setting outright, the film stays close to one teenager's daily negotiation between obligation and identity. That restraint extends to how the film frames the dormitory itself, presenting its routines and hierarchies through Ahmet's eyes rather than through outside commentary, so the audience arrives at its own sense of the institution alongside him.
Where & how to watch
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