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US Premiere

Confidante

ÇAĞLA ZENCIRCI
Turkey, France, Luxembourg, 2025
76 minutes, Color

Following on the success of Anora, Confidante focuses on another woman struggling in a high-pressure, male-dominated environment. In 1999 Turkey, Arzu (Saadet Aksoy, in a mesmerizing performance) works at a busy sex hotline where multiple phone lines are labeled with callers' particular kinks. After Arzu endures many calls, each more explicit than the last, an enormous earthquake hits a distant part of the country and she finds herself trying to rescue over the phone a young boy trapped in rubble. That he previously prank-called her is now beside the point. At the same time, a regular customer might have revealed himself as part of a secret government operation and now agents are closing in on him. Arzu is also struggling through a bitter divorce, and if the nature of her job were known, she could lose custody of her son. With each ring of a phone, Arzu must decide whether to keep the lines open or hang up.—Dave Nuttycombe

In Turkish with English subtitles