HEJAR aka BuYuK ADAM KuÇuK ASK
aka BIG MAN, LITTLE LOVE

Year: 2001
UK: Rio Cinema Distribution
Cast: Sukran Gungör, Dilan Erçetin, Fusun Demirel, Y¦ld¦z Kenter, Ismail Hakk¦ Sen, Sevinc Yildiz
Director: Handan Ipekci
Countries: Turkey/ Greece / Hungary
Language: Turkish (English subtitles)
UK:120 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains mild emotional distress and language
UK Release Date: 7 February 2003 (Limited Release)

Synopsis

Rifat (Sukran Gungör) is a 75 year-old retired Turkish Judge. A police raid in the next-door flat leaves an already orphaned 5 year-old Kurdish girl, Hejar (Dilan Erçetin), completely alone. She is looked after by the judge's Kurdish housekeeper but Rifat soon discovers that her silence, at first attributed to shock, is because she can speak only Kurdish, which is banned. Hostility and distrust between the two gradually turns into a journey of discovery and a touching friendship that is sealed by an actual journey to Hejar's south-east Turkey homeland.