The Shadows of the Unseen (Sîya Mişkên Nedîtî)
December 2026 – November 2027
MARDİN
The Shadows of the Unseen is a fiction film project that depicts the silent struggle of a man living in the shadow of debt, caregiving, and drought.
Hesen, an elderly farmer living in a house in the middle of his field, far from the village on Mardin’s arid plains, has fallen into debt with the village moneylender in order to keep his wife Fatma, who depends on an oxygen concentrator, alive. In a village where the rain never comes and drought is attributed to sin, everyone knows about this debt, yet no one dares to name it.
One day, Hesen begins to hear gnawing sounds coming from the walls of his house and the harvested field. An unseen enemy lies beneath the soil. As Hesen follows the source of these sounds, the breathing inside the house and the noises beneath the earth begin to merge.
