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Thanks to movements like Fridays For Future, the issue of climate change has come to the forefront of people’s minds again, but then again we have felt the repercussions of mankind’s treatment of the planet for quite some time before. Aside from natural catastrophes, just the extreme temperatures in summer, now enjoyed by many countries, are some of the symptoms of this global phenomenon. Perhaps these high temperatures and the heat waves have been responsible for people becoming increasingly uncomfortable, feeling a distinct unease and tempers rising, and they most certainly are in director Eren Ercenk’s short feature “Berzah”, which tells an episodic story of three people experiencing increasingly uncomfortable situations in the middle of a heat wave in Turkey.

“Berzah” is screening at Filmschoolfest Munich

In the first segment, we find a German tourist (Lise Wolle) trying to enjoy her holiday at the Turkish beach and getting a tan.