Dil Leyla

The warm, sympathetic portrait of a 26-year-old Kurdish-German named Leyla Imret, who was elected the youngest mayor in Turkey. In a record 81% landslide, she is elected mayor of Cizre, a Kurdish city that lies in the region at Turkey’s border with Syria and Iraq. It is here that Leyla was born, but after her father, a Kurdish guerilla fighter, was killed by the Turkish military, she was sent at the age of 5 to live in Germany. After more than 20 years, she returns home. Her goal is to heal the civil-wartorn city. But on the eve of Turkey’s parliamentary elections, when old memories become more real than ever, will the voice of an emancipated woman be heard in a world of zealots?

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Script: Asli Ozarslan

Cinematography: Carina Neubohn

Editing: Ana Branea

Sound: Jonathan Schorr, Aljoscha Haupt, Tom Schon, Nami Strack

Production: Essence Film

Producers: Sabrina Proske

Co-production: SWR, Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg

Format: Color

Production Country: Germany

Production Year: 2016