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SCENT OF MY DAUGHTER (2019, USA, France & Turkey)
Feature Film, Drama
Running Time: 95 min
Director: Olgun Özdemir
Writer: Olgun Özdemir
Producers: Olgun Özdemir, Ron L.Carr, Marc Brunet
Cast: Clemence Verniau, Çağlar Ertuğrul, Yılşen Özdemir, Şerif Sezer, Tolga Güleç
Logline: Three individuals from three different cultures, who all share a tragic event in their lives, find themselves on an unexpected road trip in search of a missing relative in a Turkish refugee camp only to realize they are on a profoundly poignant search for themselves.
Synopsis: Beatrice’s life changed dramatically during the terrorist attack in Nice July 2016 where she lost her parents, her husband and three year old daughter, who came to admire the fireworks on the famous Promenade des Anglais. Beatrice, fulfilling the wishes of her father, decides to repatriate the bodies in his native Armenian village in Hatay, Turkey, near the Syrian border. Beatrice desperately tries to commit suicide when Hevi, a minority Yezidi girl, prevents her to die. Hevi makes her understand that she escaped from the hands of her persecutors but she has a sister, who must be in one of the refugee camps around the area. Béa-trice decides to help her to find her sister, accompanied by Ibrahim, a young Turkish expatriate who came to visit his family. Together, they will live a human adventure, beyond the borders to gradually pass from pain to resilience.
