Movie Details
Original Language:English
In Transit
DirectorBerke Baş
50 minDocumentary
Plot
Istanbul famously stands as the bridge between Asia Africa and Europe and it is at this geographical crossroads that three migrant families stories intersect Far from the glorious Ottoman architecture and the glamorous Bosphorous nightlife In Transit shows the tough life of transients stuck in Istanbul between their wartorn or impoverished past and their imagined and elusive future This thoroughly engaging video tracks an Iraqi Arab family an Iraqi Kurdish family and a Nigerian couple for a full year witnessing their struggle to adapt to life on the margins of an unforgiving city while awaiting visas and work permits that never seem to come
