Emre, a young and dedicated prosecutor, is newly appointed to a small town hit by a water crisis and political scandals. After an initial welcome, he experiences an increasing number of tense interactions and is reluctantly dragged into local politics.
Emre is a public prosecutor with a strong conscience. Sent to Yaniklara, a remote town in the driest regions of Turkey, he’s trying his damnedest to avoid developing relationships with the numerous shady public officials trying to win his favor. But when Emre might have been drugged and might have committed a horrendous crime while under the influence, he’s caught between trying to root out corruption and potentially hiding his own culpability in a crime too repellant to ignore. Alper’s crime film is already being hailed as a masterpiece. Featured at last year’s Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, Emin Alper’s Burning Days has been acclaimed as a worthy successor to Chinatown and High Noon.
Director Biography
Born in 1974 in Turkey, Emin Alper was a cinema-obsessed student at Bogaziçi University. His film debut, Beyond the Hill (2012), won the Caligari Film Prize at the 62nd Berlinale. His other films are Frenzy (2015), A Tale of Three Sisters (2019), and Burning Days (Kurak Günler) (2022).