Son Hasat
Breathtakingly beautiful Turkish drama about a poor cane harvester on the rugged Anatolian plateau who resists exploitation by landlords and local gangs.
In the rough landscape of central Turkey sits the village of Bolvadin. In it lies a lake upon which the villagers depend for their livelihoods. In this isolated place with its own codes and laws, greedy landlords and brutish gangs dominate the downtrodden people who have over time been convinced that survival depends on obedience.
Among them lives humble Ali, who earns a meagre living cutting reeds. He is in love with his wife Aysel, though their marriage is not without woes and is at a dangerous precipice. When a kingpin named Yahya pressures Ali to join his disreputable crew, Ali refuses, triggering enmity. Meanwhile, fed up with poverty, Aysel accepts the same offer. Distraught with her acquiescence and exposure to Yahya’s underworld, Ali makes a daring attempt to reverse her decision.
In the footsteps of author Yaşar Kemal, writer-director Cemil Ağacıkoğlu returns to the place he has visited and woven stories about for more than thirty years. Son Hasat is a suspenseful and stark rumination on how the inner battles we wage define us. (source: www.tiff.net)