Brother's Keeper

Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys in Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls ill, Yusuf struggles through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school’s repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge understand the seriousness of Memo’s condition, the school has been buried under heavy snowfall. With no way out, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges and hidden secrets emerge—as time ticks mercilessly by and threatens to run out...