Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds

The village of Tepecik during the sixties. Recep and Mehmet are two young friends working as apprentices in a nearby town. Recep works for a watermelon vendor and Mehmet for a domineering barber, but they are obsessed with becoming film directors and escaping their small-town lives. After discovering that the small local theatre regularly discards worn-out film, the boys have begun collecting and, with a makeshift film projector, screening these films each night in an abandoned shed. Their fellow villagers disapprove and believe that they should be spending their time on more useful things, nevertheless, they are undaunted...