Secret, Teacher, Missing
The film focuses on teacher İshak, who is doing his compulsory duty in a pathless village in Anatolia, and questions the forms and consequences of humanity’s struggle with evil as it tinkers with the concepts of guilt and innocence in pursuit of a missing female student.
Turan Haste was born in Turkey in 1989. He graduated from the film department in 2010. His first short film, "Harvest Time," was featured in national and international festivals and received numerous awards in 2016. He produced the short films "Nafthalene" and "At a Riverside." "At a Riverside" had its world premiere at the 37th Busan International Short Film Festival in 2020. In 2022, he directed the short film "The Moisture" in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and TRT.
