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Cengiz Akaygün

The Mandarin Tree

    RELEASE

    2018-09-12

    BUGET

    N/A

    LENGTH

    18 min

    Description

    After her father is arrested for political reasons by the Turkish government, little Sirin is finally allowed to visit him in prison for the first time. When a prison official interprets her painting of a bird as an anarchistic symbol and confiscates it, the girl is devastated, but her father encourages her to believe in the freedom of thought. For her second visit, she paints a "harmless" mandarin tree. Will her hidden message be discovered?

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