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24th BOSTON TURKISH FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL

HESITATION WOUND

Tereddüt Çizgisi 

Written and Directed by SELMAN NACAR


EAST COAST PREMIERE

tereddut cizgisi. hesitation wound.

84 min. / 2023 / with English subtitles
Cast: Tülin Özen, Oğulcan Arman Uslu, Gülçin Kültür Şahin, Vedat Erincin, Erdem Şenocak 


SYNOPSIS


A criminal lawyer who divides her time between the courthouse and her mother's hospital bed at night, has to make a moral choice that will affect the lives of her mother, the judge, and her murder suspect client - whose defense is turning in his favor.


SELECTED FESTIVALS AND AWARDS


  • Venice International Film Festival, Orizzonti Section, Italy (2023): World Premiere
  • Zurich Film Festival, Switzerland (2023): Best International Feature Film Golden Eye Award
  • The New Directors/New Films Festival, USA (2023)
  • Stockholm Film Festival, Sweden (2023): Bronz Horse
  • Singapore International Film Festival (2023): Silver Screen Award
  • Golden Rooster Awards, China (2023)
  • Istanbul Film Festival, Türkiye (2024)
  • The Hague Movies that Matter Festival, The Netherlands (2024)
  • Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Australia (2024): Best Screenplay
selman nacar.

SELMAN NACAR

Director and Writer


Selman Nacar (1990, Uşak) is a filmmaker with an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University in New York City. He gave lectures on fictional filmmaking at the same university. He graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law in 2015 and from the Faculty of Film in 2016. He is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents 2019 and the First Films First 2020. Nacar’s debut Between Two Dawns (İki Şafak Arasında) premiered at the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival and received many awards, including the Best Film Award at the 39th Torino Film Festival. Nacar’s second film, Hesitation Wound (Tereddüt Çizgisi) premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival.

Selman Nacar is the recipient of Best Short Film Audience Award with The Well (Kuyu) at the Boston Turkish Festival's Documentary & Short Film Competition in 2016. Nacar’s first feature film Between Two Dawns (İki Şafak Arasında) was screened at the Boston Turkish Film Festival in 2022.