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Regular Woman, A

Original title: Nur eine Frau
German title: Nur eine Frau
Germany, 2019

Director: Hormann, Sherry
Age recommendation: 12 years and up
Length: 90 min.
Film genre: Feature film

Synopsis:
Aynur is shot to death by her brother Nuri on a busy street in Berlin. Without suspecting anything, she accompanies him to the bus stop down the road, while her five-year-old son Can is asleep in her apartment only a few hundred meters away. How could this happen, what led to this deed?

In this film Aynur is telling her own story, her perspective of what happened. It is the story of a confident young woman who loves life and knows exactly how she wants to live hers. A woman who escapes the violence of her marriage and refuses to let her brothers and parents dictate what she can and cannot do. She gets her own apartment, she apprentices as an electrician and she goes out to meet new men and friends. Although she knows that her behavior goes against her family’s tradition and it can put her in danger, her desire for freedom is stronger. However, her brothers’ insults and threats becoming increasingly serious and before long, it is ultimately too late.

The film is based on the story of Hatun Aynur Sürücü, whose murder caused an outcry in 2005. The witnesses are still in the witness-protection program to this day.

Festivals:
Tribeca IFF 2019, Jerusalem IFF 2019, Melbourne IFF 2019, Mumbai IFF 2019, Taipei Golden Horse IFF2019, Kolkata IFF 2019, Rio de Janeiro IFF 2019, Bengaluru IFF 2020, Luxembourg IFF 2020

World sales address/es:
Match Factory (DE)

Sold to:
NFP (D)