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2016 · 8m · Chipre , Turquía
Directed by Vasvi Ciftcioglu, Dogus Ozokutan
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
Ayla, a character who according to society has no problem in her life, finds her monotonous existence reason enough to take her own life. She decides to kill herself and fails — but she does not stop trying, in a film about the ancient questions of what we live for and why we must keep living.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A film that treats suicide not as tragedy-porn but as the logical endpoint of crushing suburban adequacy—and then refuses to let the audience off the hook by making it *work*. This is exactly the kind of premise that makes programmers nervous and Felix vindicated.
The experimental form serves a genuine philosophical inquiry rather than aesthetics for their own sake, positioning itself squarely in the lineage of Bresson and Haneke—restraint as a moral position, not a stylistic choice.
The decision to keep the suicide attempts visually mundane rather than operatic—letting the monotony of repetition do the existential work—is what separates this from a hundred other dark shorts about despair.