Transformation
- Director: Saeed Mayahy, Carlsen Miriam
- Writer: Saeed Mayahy, Carlsen Miriam
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In the following months after the USA withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, a young Kabulcouple, have found their way to the dark and dodgy Afghan neighborhood, Zeytinburnu,in Istanbul. Malika - an eccentric transgender woman who together with Mohamed, the love of her life, have fled their families honor killing plan and Taliban's fatal punishments to be able to cultivate their forbidden love for each other, in the hope of achieving a new and better life in Turkey.
Oneday they pass by the young and homeless "Ilham," who is sitting on the pavement with nowhere to go, and decide to bring an extra person into their self-made family. Together the three of them are facing poverty, fear of deportation, daily harassment, sexual violence and gender identity crisis. But their self-claimed support towards each other, keeps them fighting for their dreams, whatever it takes.
On their tumultuous and challenging journey and transformation through registration for Turkish residency, seeking help in NGOs. As they obtain residency and move into their own place, their circumstances seem to improve from the outside. But unexpected and darker perspectives surface, revealing surprising twist of perception, when Ilham runs away and claims they have prostituted him out to other men.
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