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A Turkish mother feels she has failed, now that her sixteen-year-old daughter has to get married because she is pregnant. Set in Amsterdam, in the early 1980s.
Amsterdam, 1982. In a Turkish family of immigrant workers, a sixteen-year-old girl has to get married because she is pregnant. While her mother, on the early morning of the shotgun wedding, drowns in feelings of guilt, a candid heart-to-heart brings her closer to her daughter again, who will leave for Turkey after the wedding day.
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Title: Merhamet
Year: 2023
Duration : 26 minutes
Category: Short Feature
Edition: NFF 2023

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