EditAhlat Agaci (2018)

This Turkish drama film tells the story of Sinan, whose true passion is literature and big dream - to be a writer. The fresh college graduate returns to his home village with diploma but with no money or job. Sinan is hoping to find financial support for the publication of his first book, but Idris, his father, has a gambling addiction and never ending debts. This is a serious obstacle that cannot be overcome. Struggling to create a living in this rural place, Sinan starts mingling fantasies and reality which puts him into conflict with the people around him. “The Wild Pear Tree” is not only the title of Sinan’s autobiographical work, describing the rough beauty of the land where these trees grow, but also a metaphor for the people who inhabit those lands: “Misfits, solitary, misshapen.”