Synopsis
Filmmaker Dirk Schäfer accompanied thirty-year-old Nevzat through his disordered life. Nevzat, who grew up in the bosom of a Kurdish tribe at Turkey’s border to Iran, had been forced into a marriage at the age of fifteen in order to pacify a smoldering blood feud with another clan. Yet the marriage was never consummated and again and again Nevzat chose to stay away from village life by hiring himself out as a construction worker in the mega-metropolis Istanbul, a job that almost claimed his life. Caught between the traditional codes of honour in his community, and his status as a member of the Kurdish minority in Turkey, Nevzat has been forced to use his wits to forge his way and has had a hard time planning a future. An observational documentary, A SORT OF LOVE is also both the source and reflection of an unusual friendship.
