Käte Caspar

It's My Turn

Five boys in Istanbul use a rhyming game to determine which boy gets their combined funds to go to the movie theater that day, as they are too poor to all go. The other boys wait for the lucky one to return to tell them the story of movie, with attendant gestures and sound affects.

Dealer

Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can is a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan, who has to keep his customers supplied within his narrowly staked out territory. Jale, who works in the ware-house of a department store, has been pressing Can to give up this activity. Can, also fed up with his situation, sees a bright new beginning for himself and his family when Hakan offers him the prospective chance to run a bar on his very own. But Can has little control over the pressures that gradually begin to build up around him and soon finds himself floundering in quicksand.