Beyto (2020)

Directed by

Gitta Gsell

Genre

drama film, romance film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Switzerland

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

18A

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Swiss man of Turkish heritage falls in love with his swimming coach. Under family pressure, he goes through with an arranged marriage in Turkey.

intimatetenderconflict-riddenemotionally chargedearnestdownbeatculturally tensebittersweet

What happens

Beyto is a 2020 Swiss drama film directed by Gitta Gsell. Adapted from Yusuf Yesilöz’s novel Hochzeitsflug, it stars Burak Ates as a young Swiss man of Turkish background who falls in love with his coach and is then pushed by his family into an arranged marriage. The film premiered at the Zurich Film Festival in 2020 and later won the Prix du Public at the 2021 Solothurn Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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