CERN CineClub - Mommy, I’m scared (Korkuyorum Anne)

Thursday 15 Oct 2009, 20:30 → 22:34 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Mommy, I’m scared (Korkuyorum Anne) directed by Reha Erdem (Turkey, 2004) 124 min. The film is set in modern day Istanbul. Ali, a guy in his late twenties, has an accident while working as a taxi driver. He has a temporary amnesia. Although he comes to remember in time many of the people who live in his apartment building, he cannot somehow remember his father, a retired health officer. During his struggle to sort himself out we see people around him joining the same struggle. The movie looks like an absurd comedy at first look but it explores common themes in an unusual circus-like ambiance. Circumcision at an early age, doing one's military service, leaving your father's home when it is due time (unlike the Westernized way of leaving home when you turn 18) are rituals of Turkish culture. In the movie we see a little boy who refuses to be circumcised, a young man who refuses to do his military service, a 30-year-old man refusing to leave home.