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SAVING İLKER CANİKLİGİL

2025 · 10 min Documentary Thriller
7.0 / 10 · TMDB

İlker Canikligil, a Turkish documentary filmmaker, becomes the subject of a political firestorm after releasing his latest film. Declared persona non grata by authorities, his work triggers an international diplomatic crisis. Colleagues and activists launch the #Saveİlker campaign, fighting against his potential extradition and imprisonment. Meanwhile, the audience glimpses fragments of the controversial documentary itself — footage deemed subversive by the state. The narrative unfolds like a real-time thriller: investigative journalism, witness intimidation, sudden disappearances of archival evidence. The line between documentary and political detective story blurs with each twist, challenging the very nature of truth.

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Original Title İLKER CANİKLİGİLİ KURTARMAK
Year 2025
Country Turkey
Genre Documentary, Thriller
Director Erdi Kızgır
Runtime 10 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.0/10 (1 votes)

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The direction merges vérité urgency with thriller pacing, treating interviews as interrogations and archival clips as evidence.

Anyone ready for a film that feels less like watching history and more like witnessing it unfold in dangerous real-time will find this unsettlingly compelling. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Erdi Kızgır

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