Blue ID

    Mavi kimlik

    • Burcu Melekoglu, Vuslat Karan
    • Turkey
    • 2022
    • 85 min
    • World Premiere
    • Luminous

    On October 4, 2012, a beaming Rüzgar Erkoçlar received his first testosterone injection, marking an important step in his gender affirmation. Could he have imagined then how arduous that journey would be? That traditional Turkey would make him front-page news because previously he was a well-known actress? That hostile rants would circulate on social media and his family would have to fend off the tabloids? That he would be mercilessly condemned for wanting to become the man he always was?

    Maybe so, because this film leaves no doubt about the degree of homophobia and transphobia in Turkish society. For Rüzgar, the crowning glory of his transition is the exchange of his pink identity card for a blue one. The entire process, a path paved with frustration, humiliation and endless waiting, is captured in home movie-esque observations and self-assured phone videos.

    Credits

    • 85 min
    • color
    • DCP
    • Spoken languages: Turkish
    • Subtitles in: English
    Director
    Burcu Melekoglu, Vuslat Karan
    Production
    Burcu Melekoglu for Moxie, Vuslat Karan for Moxie
    Co-production
    Dilek Aydin for Heimatlos Films, Efe Durmaz for Heimatlos Films
    Cinematography
    Vuslat Karan, Burcu Melekoglu, Meryem Yavuz
    Editing
    Burcu Melekoglu

    IDFA history

    2022
    World Premiere
    Luminous
    2014
    Supported with €17500 for Classic: Production & postproduction

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