Dormitory

Dormitory (Yurt, 2024) is a coming-of-age drama you can watch online on iFILM. Turkish director Nehir Tuna follows a fourteen-year-old pulled out of his comfortable life and dropped into a place where nothing belongs to him anymore.

Ahmet (Doğa Karakaş) grew up middle-class and secular. Then his newly devout father makes a decision for him: the boy will live at an all-boys religious dormitory. By day he attends regular school; by night he answers to prayers, rules, and older students who waste no time putting a newcomer in his place. Ahmet is caught between two worlds and fits neither. At home they want piety. At the dorm they want him to bury who he used to be. He just wants a little more time to stay a kid.

A quiet German-French-Turkish co-production that never raises its voice. Tuna draws on his own youth, and that lived memory gives Ahmet's story its sting. One for viewers who love restrained drama about faith and fathers. Stream Dormitory (2024) online on iFILM.