The Wild Pear Tree (2018)

Description

Sinan is about to take the exam to become a teacher, a profession that in Turkey gives high status and is associated with academia at a higher level than in Norway. On this occasion, he decides to spend some downtime at his family's home in the somewhat remote coastal town of Çanakkale. The family consists of his father Idris, a primary school teacher who has fallen into gambling and the task of drilling a new well in his grandfather's backyard, his severely depressed mother Asuman, who spends her days in the company of soap operas, and his sister Yasemin, who, like her brother, dreams of leaving the city.