Les criminels

As director Serhat Karaaslan explained it, this was based on his own experience when he was a university student, and apparently echoes the experiences of other young people in Turkey. It's bad enough to think of the deeply conservative mindset that might deny an unmarried couple a room in a hotel, but truly scary to think that they may be caught in the act by surveillance, and the room broken into. The creepiness of the security guard (Erdem Senocak) who is ironically acting with "moral authority" provides quite a contrast with the young couple (Deniz Altan and Lorin Merhart) who express warmth and love, and simply want to be together. Great casting all around here, and a very clean short film, one that efficiently paints its picture, and leaves an impression. Kinda wish the movie poster was different though, as the salacious image didn't seem to be at all what the film was about.