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This Is Not Me

"You married but you can never be happy."

2022-04-16
6.2
tr 92m
Documentary
This is Not Me tells the story of unhappy gay men who have had to marry women to hide their sexual orientation in the face of societal and family pressure in Turkey, and their own internal conflicts. The three main characters of the film, Mustafa, Mehmet and Yusuf migrated to Istanbul from small towns and come from conservative families. The film reveals each characters’ world: exhausted from continually playing at social roles and lying about their identity, faltering between their reality and their dreams, frustrated and stuck in their lives. It also looks at the subject from the aspect of women who are the other victims of these marriages. Mehmet and Yusuf, both married to women, act the part of heterosexual males and family men within their own social circles.

Director

Jeyan Kader Gülşen

Writer

Jeyan Kader Gülşen

Director

Zekiye Kaçak

Writer

Zekiye Kaçak

Cinematography

Christian Feiland

Editor

Jeyan Kader Gülşen

Status

Released

Countries

  • Turkey

Companies

  • ArtHood Entertainment

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