Gül Abus Semerci

This documentary takes a close look at the passionate fans of the Turkish TV series industry, focusing on the way fans feel they belong to the stories, to the point of interfering with the actors and even the flow of the script. As a result of this passion, fans launch social media campaigns against the scriptwriters and try to ‘save’ their favourite characters, proving how strong this attachment is. On the other hand, the comments made by industry representatives about the fans and the cold face of their professional world are another striking aspect of the documentary. This dynamic, in which contrasting feelings such as admiration and arrogance, attachment and distance are experienced together, offers a portrait of the world of fiction and its fans.

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“I Beg You To Like Me”, serves as a testimony of individuals who felt oppressed about their body image for not meeting the standard beauty criteria, and demonstrates how a reckless language based on others’ physical appearance could turn violent. It aims to achieve much more than simply stating the obvious, which is that we are not obligated to submit to the ideal beauty standards dictated by the media, consumerism and the beauty industry. The intimate stories about one’s own body image as told by women, men, disabled people and LGBT individuals make it apparent that any one of us could end up being a victim and a perpetrator at the same time. What if, this iconic body image is nothing but an unobtainable fallacy? “Is it not yet the time to openly discuss the conventional perception of beauty, and step up onto the catwalk in our actual likeness?

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This documentary takes a close look at the passionate fans of the Turkish TV series industry, focusing on the way fans feel they belong to the stories, to the point of interfering with the actors and even the flow of the script. As a result of this passion, fans launch social media campaigns against the scriptwriters and try to ‘save’ their favourite characters, proving how strong this attachment is. On the other hand, the comments made by industry representatives about the fans and the cold face of their professional world are another striking aspect of the documentary. This dynamic, in which contrasting feelings such as admiration and arrogance, attachment and distance are experienced together, offers a portrait of the world of fiction and its fans.

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“I Beg You To Like Me”, serves as a testimony of individuals who felt oppressed about their body image for not meeting the standard beauty criteria, and demonstrates how a reckless language based on others’ physical appearance could turn violent. It aims to achieve much more than simply stating the obvious, which is that we are not obligated to submit to the ideal beauty standards dictated by the media, consumerism and the beauty industry. The intimate stories about one’s own body image as told by women, men, disabled people and LGBT individuals make it apparent that any one of us could end up being a victim and a perpetrator at the same time. What if, this iconic body image is nothing but an unobtainable fallacy? “Is it not yet the time to openly discuss the conventional perception of beauty, and step up onto the catwalk in our actual likeness?

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Asiye, who struggles with her two young children at a young age, devotes herself to the happiness of her children despite all her deprivation, and is both a mother and a father to them, her life turns upside down with the disaster that happened to her daughter Narcissus, whom she avoids from her eyes. After that, Asiyah's path crosses with Mahir, an unfamiliar stranger who helps them, who is dragged on an irreversible journey with his children for the sake of protecting his daughter. Mahir, who helps them with humanitarian feelings and takes them to his car, is unaware yet that he will change the fate of both himself and Asiye and their children with this decision he has made. For Asiye, who took refuge in the Demirhan Mansion thanks to Mahir, this is not a salvation, but the beginning of a whole new war.

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