‘Brother’s Keeper’ Director Ferit Karahan’s ‘Djinn Wedding’ Asks: ‘Can a Person Who Refuses to Acknowledge Their Own Darkness Ever Truly Change Their Fate?’

'When we deny the darkness within ourselves, it doesn’t disappear - it only becomes invisible. Then, it returns as silent resentment, hidden hatred, guilt, or violence passed from one generation to the next,’ says Karahan

By Roberto Prieto

Roberto Prieto

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“Djinn Wedding” (“Cinlerin Düğünü”), written and directed by Ferit Karahan (“Brother’s Keeper,” “The Fall From Heaven”), will have its world premiere at Toronto as part of the TIFF Platform competition. This is Karahan’s follow-up feature to “Brother’s Keeper,” which won the Berlin Film Festival’s Fipresci Award in the Panorama section.

A magic realism story about family, history and Anatolian folk tales, the film follows four siblings across three periods of time as their dark secrets and traumas begin to unravel during a family wedding. It deals with the universal themes of loss, guilt and mourning. 

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