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Zeynep's Eight Days (2007)

Zeynep's Eight Days poster
Original title
Zeynep'in Sekiz Günü
Directed by
Cemal Şan
Genre
drama film
Country
Turkey
Runtime
2h 03m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An isolated woman falls in love with a stranger at a party. She then spends eight days searching for him.

lonelyyearningromanticintrospectivemelancholicsearchingslow-pacedemotional

What happens

Zeynep's Eight Days (Turkish: Zeynep'in Sekiz Günü) is a 2007 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Cemal Şan, starring Fadik Sevin Atasoy as an isolated woman searching for a stranger she fell in love with at a party. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on November 30, 2007 (2007-11-30), was shown in competition at the 44th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (October 19–28, 2007). It is the first part of a trilogy of films which includes Dilber's Eight Days (2008) and Ali's Eight Days (2009). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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