The Banishment

Ziko is an obsessed young sleepwalker who has just been banished from his village for a "serious crime" he committed while he slept. When this decision is announced to the neighboring villages, he has no choice but to go to town, in the middle of winter, crossing the villages which await him with hatred. Unaware of all this, a deaf and mute hunter must also pass through the same villages on the same day.

Yılmaz Özdil

Yılmaz Özdil was born in Hakkari in 1979. After completing his master's degree at the University of Pantheon Sorbonne, he defended his doctoral thesis titled "The Visual Construction of Kurdish Identities in Cinema" at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2013. He directed several documentaries and worked as an assistant director in films shot in Turkey, Iraq and France. He is currently working at Mardin Artuklu University as an assistant professor. The Banishment is his second fiction film as a director.