DNFF: Sayara

Australian Premiere

When her older sister is brutally murdered by a gym owner and his thug mates, whose political connections prevent them from being prosecuted, Saýara, the gym’s quiet janitor and daughter of a Soviet Sambo champion, puts her afterhours training to deadly use, executing a most savage, nihilistic retribution.

In stark contrast to his earlier supernatural work (BASKIN, HOUSEWIFE), Evrenol channels the realistic, tense narrative style of Nicolas Winding Refn’s PUSHER trilogy and delivers an ultraviolent tour-de-force. If you like your revenge dishes served cold and inside out, then this close combat shocker will ice you into the middle of next week. Anti-heroine Saýara, played with ferocious gusto by Duygu Kocabiyik, takes no prisoners, as vengeance is hers to keep.

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Content Warning: contains high impact violence

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Duration

98 min

Language

Turkish (English subtitles)

Director

Can Evrenol