Kepler Mission Films

An exploration of the concept of death through three minority communities, reflecting the phases of pre-mortem, mortem, and post-mortem. Reality and magical realism merge to depict the cultural acceptance of death in contrasting societies, revealing the collective imagination that upholds their funerary traditions and beliefs.

“I am not the remains. I exist.” Three Jordanian women barely survived the violence inflicted on them by men. Çelik films them from as up close as possible in their flats, which they barely leave, listening to them speak with the opaque logic of trauma.