Movie

This Is Not Me

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“You married but you can never be happy.”

This is Not Me tells the story of unhappy gay men who have had to marry women to hide their sexual orientation in the face of societal and family pressure in Turkey, and their own internal conflicts. The three main characters of the film, Mustafa, Mehmet and Yusuf migrated to Istanbul from small towns and come from conservative families. The film reveals each characters’ world: exhausted from continually playing at social roles and lying about their identity, faltering between their reality and their dreams, frustrated and stuck in their lives. It also looks at the subject from the aspect of women who are the other victims of these marriages. Mehmet and Yusuf, both married to women, act the part of heterosexual males and family men within their own social circles.

Director

Zekiye Kaçak

Director

Jeyan Kader Gülşen

Screenplay

Zekiye Kaçak

Screenplay

Jeyan Kader Gülşen

Status

Released

Release date

16/04/2022

Original language

Turkish