Çağıl Nurhak Aydoğdu

Yarim (The Half) is the story of two halves setting out to become a whole, of the efforts made by two children to play the existing male-female roles. Fidan is a 15-year-old shepherd girl who lives in poverty with her family in a village in eastern Turkey. Her father gives her as a bride to an unknown family. Her husband, Salih, is mentally challenged; although he has a physical age of 35, his mental age is lower than Fidan’s. (via cinema.indiana.edu)

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Cihan is preparing for university with great excitement. When she wins the university, as she imagines, she finds another tention: "Love". Cihan felt that she had just started to live, in fact, she had a disease without treatment and Figen (her mother) is the first who learns it. As long as Cihan lives, Figen started a big fight for her life so that Cihan could spend the rest of her life as unique and as she deserved.

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Yarim (The Half) is the story of two halves setting out to become a whole, of the efforts made by two children to play the existing male-female roles. Fidan is a 15-year-old shepherd girl who lives in poverty with her family in a village in eastern Turkey. Her father gives her as a bride to an unknown family. Her husband, Salih, is mentally challenged; although he has a physical age of 35, his mental age is lower than Fidan’s. (via cinema.indiana.edu)

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