The Storm

The film takes us back to the first half of the 1990's, an active period in Turkish student-political life. 18-year-old Cemal has succeeded in getting a place at the university in Istanbul, but arrives unprepared for a student scene that is boiling over with political engagement, with surroundings that without scruples descend on the activists. To Cemal, becoming a student is a chance to escape his Kuridsh village background, but at the university he is soon challenged by a student movement to live up to his identity as a Kurd. bb