The Particle (Zerre)

Plot Summary

Winner of Best Film and Best Actress awards in Moscow Film Festival in 2013, Zerre (The Particle), is the first feature of Turkish director Erdem Tepegöz. It is the story of Zeynep, a single mother who lives with her young daughter and aging mother in a fringe neighborhood of Istanbul. Her days pass as she searches for a job in vain. She makes money on the side by doing menial jobs with the help of a couple of kind friends, but every day the situation seems to get worse. In the city of Istanbul, full of unemployment, people, their troubles and lives, are they as mundane, haphazard and tiny as myriad dispersed particles? What about Zeynep, clinging onto life with her little daughter and mother, how much space does she cover up in this immense Universe?