Turkish writer-director Ali Vatansever's third feature, world premiering in the main competition program at Tallinn, was inspired by a controversial case in Turkey and uses a new cinematic language.
“On the 20th floor of a social housing, impending death tears a family apart. İzzet, 19, in the final stages of illness, finds solace in VRChat,” reads a synopsis for LifeLike. “His mother, Reyhan, ...
Human mortality, the need for connection, and the yearning for transcendence take center stage in LifeLike (Bir Arada Yalnız), the third feature film from Turkish writer-director Ali Vatansever (Saf, ...