Majority

Majority (Çoğunluk, 2010) is a Turkish drama you can watch online on iFILM — the debut feature from director Seren Yüce. Mert is a young Istanbul man who lives under his father's unspoken but absolute authority: the man who controls the money, holds the expectations and has already decided what kind of life his son should be living.

Mert pushes back the only way he can — by falling for a woman from an ethnic minority, a choice his father would reject without a second thought. Bartu Küçükçağlayan plays Mert with a stillness that accumulates; you feel the pressure long before anything breaks. Yüce is less interested in this one family than in a social architecture that keeps certain people inside the definition of normal and others permanently outside it. Hard and unsentimental, with no easy exit. Stream Majority (2010) online on iFILM.