Grooms Block

Damat Kogusu Grooms Block is slang in Turkey for prison sections holding those accused of serious sex crimes The films story and characters are drawn from everyday life In the Grooms Block the guards and prison governor manipulate tensions as prisoners push each other to the edge of existence We experience the tension and paradox of a violent prison and justice systems reflecting the shifting moral norms and structure of Turkish society The jailed and jailers enforce violent justice daily expressing in their lives a society confronted with its need to hide from itself in desperate denial of its cruel contradictions