Violence and women subject of new movie

The new movie ‘Kurtuluş Son Durak’ tackles violence against women with female characters refusing to be victimized by male oppression. The same cannot be said of many Turkish TV series, which often glamorize rape and abuse

It is not often you see an all-female cast in Turkish cinema, let alone in Turkish comedy. The fact the recent Kurtuluş Son Durak (Last Stop Kurtuluş) is set around a deeply-rooted issue like violence against women makes the movie an even more important development to Turkey’s pop culture.

Penned by veteran filmmaker Barış Pirhasan and directed by his son Yusuf Pirhasan as his debut feature, the film’s title refers to an address in Istanbul. The residents of the apartment building are the other characters. When Eylem (Belçim Bilgin), a young female psychologist, moves to the apartment soon after being dumped by her fiancé just weeks before their wedding, she at first tries her best to maintain her distance with an eclectic mix of female neighbors.

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