The Half

Yarim (The Half) is the story of two halves setting out to become a whole, of the efforts made by two children to play the existing male-female roles. Fidan is a 15-year-old shepherd girl who lives in poverty with her family in a village in eastern Turkey. Her father gives her as a bride to an unknown family. Her husband, Salih, is mentally challenged; although he has a physical age of 35, his mental age is lower than Fidan’s. (via cinema.indiana.edu)

• Release date
• May 6, 2016
• Runtime
• 98 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Çağıl Nurhak Aydoğdu

Cast

E

Ece Tatay Fidan Serhat Yiğit Salih Hülya Böceklioğlu Recep Yener Ahmet Kaynak Gözde Okur

K

Karya Özkan

M

Mehmet Ünal