Directed By
İlker Savaşkurt
Runtime
Country
Turkey
Completed
2016
Language
Turkish (English Subtitles)
Category
World Cinema Features

Groom's Block (Damat Koğuşu)

Groom's Block is slang in Turkey for prison sections holding those accused of serious sex crimes. The film's story and characters are drawn from everyday life. In the Groom's Block, the guards and prison governor manipulate tensions, as prisoners push each other to the edge of existence. We experience the tension and paradox of a violent prison and justice systems reflecting the shifting moral norms and structure of Turkish society. The jailed and jailers enforce violent justice daily, expressing in their lives a society confronted with its need to hide from itself, in desperate denial of its cruel contradictions.

Friday, July 14 at 11:15AM in DeBoest Lecture Hall Thursday, July 20 at 10:00PM in The Toby