Director: Selman Nacar
Splitting her nights between a courthouse and her mother's hospital bed, a criminal lawyer faces a decision she cannot walk back in "Tereddut Cizgisi," a 2024 drama directed by Selman Nacar.
What is Tereddut Cizgisi about?
Canan is stretched thin long before the film's central case ever reaches her desk. By day she works as a criminal defense lawyer, building arguments and managing clients; by night she sits beside her mother's hospital bed, watching a slow decline she has little power to change. Into this exhausting routine comes a client accused of murder, a case that puts Canan in direct contact with a judge whose own judgment may be as compromised as anyone else's in the courtroom. As the trial unfolds, Canan realizes that the choices in front of her are not simply legal ones; how she handles the case will ripple outward into her mother's final days, the judge's reputation, and the fate of a client whose guilt is far from settled. Nacar frames the story as a quiet character study rather than a courtroom thriller, following Canan through corridors, waiting rooms, and hospital hallways as the pressure of competing loyalties slowly closes in on her.
Cast & crew
Tülin Özen anchors the film as Canan, carrying long stretches of the story on restrained, internalized performance. Vedat Erincin and Erdem Şenocak appear in key supporting roles connected to the courtroom, while Gülçin Kültür Şahin and Oğulcan Arman Uslu round out Canan's world outside the trial.
Context & significance
"Tereddut Cizgisi" is a co-production spanning Turkey, France, Romania, and Spain, reflecting the wider European festival circuit that Turkish arthouse cinema increasingly moves through. Director Selman Nacar builds the film around the moral weight of everyday professional decisions rather than dramatic courtroom reveals, a register closer to observational drama than legal thriller.
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