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Spoiler-free premise
Leftist journalist Sadık returns with son Deniz to the family farm and the conservative father he defied years earlier.
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After wife Aysun dies giving birth during Turkey's 1980 military coup, journalist Sadık raises son Deniz away from his rural family. Illness eventually sends them back to the Aegean farm, where Sadık confronts father Hüseyin and Deniz meets an unfamiliar extended household.
Why it belongs
Through a father-son return, sprawling family comedy, and grief carried across three generations, My Father and My Son makes political history intimate.
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Farm courtyards, old rooms, imagined heroes, family meals, newspaper memory, and Evanthia Reboutsika's score let a child's wonder encounter adult estrangement. Çetin Tekindor and Fikret Kuşkan give reconciliation hard edges.
Major award wins
No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.
Awards are reference metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Institutional reference ranks
Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250247AFI 100—
Reference metadata only · not part of the 40/40/20 score
Great Cinema Master List scores
Greatness7.6
Engagement7.9
Ease7.8
Turkish · Not Rated Narrative Feature Mood: Funny & Bittersweet
