Reha Erdem’s quietly beautiful film examines the lives of children in a small Turkish village poised on a mountainside near the sea. Nature is all around them with winds rising and falling, the sun and moon rising and setting, sudden rains, bright sunny days, crisp nights, and the sounds of sheep, goats, donkeys, dogs, and chickens.
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