Houses with small windows

Synopsis

‘Houses with small windows’ is a powerful and yet muted portrait of an honour killing in the rural Kurdish Southeast of Turkey. 22-year old Dilan pays for her forbidden love for a young man in a neighbouring village with her life. She has shamed the family and therefore must die at the hands of her own brothers. And as tradition will have it, the killing must be compensated.

Director Biography

Born in 1975 in Baglarbasi, Turkey. Bülent Öztürk lives since 1995 in Antwerp (Belgium). In 2007 Bülent starts film studies at the Belgian filmschool Rits in Brussels. In 2011 he obtains his master degree. During his studies, he participates in intercultural filmworkshop, conducted by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund where he directs his first short-movie ‘Ten to Nine’. During his studies Bülent directs several other short movies and a documentary.