Journey to the Sun (1999)

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd.

• Release Date: 1999-02-16
• Runtime: 1h 49min
• Production Company: The Film Company
• Production Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands
• Director: Yeşim Ustaoğlu