Repentance or Snow

İstiğfar ya da Kar

DCP / Color / 20’
Turkish with English Subtitles
Türkiye, 2026

Director: Ecre Begüm Bayrak
Screenplay: Ecre Begüm Bayrak
Cinematography: Arda Yıldıran
Editing: İsmet Araç
Cast: Müge Özer, Nur Sürer, Erdem Kaynarca, Özgür Meriç, Necmettin Çobanoğlu, Ece Bağcı, Zeynep Şengöz, Oğulcan İnan, Ömer Oduncu, Orkun Huylu, Ali Çoban
Producer: Sığla Ünal, Cem Karcı, Orkun Huylu

Synopsis

After witnessing a murder committed by her own religious community, a young woman is torn between loyalty to her sect and her conscience toward the victim’s family. Surrounded by a wall of silence built by complicit police officers, feudal family ties and the community’s threats, she must make a choice. The title sets side by side two things that cover and cleanse: repentance, the plea for forgiveness of sins, and snow that buries every trace. Ecre Begüm Bayrak examines the distance between crime and punishment through the cost of bearing witness, as seen through a young woman’s conscience.

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