Jin (2013)

JIN  (2013)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Reha Erdem
    Deniz Hasgüler, Onur Ünsal, Sabahattin Yakut
This movie's about a girl on the run. It plays like a dream or a fairy tale. Her name's Jin, though she sometimes goes by Leyla, a name she picks up along the way. She's Kurdish, and as the movie begins, she's with a band of guerillas somewhere near the Turkish border. The  guerillas make camp in some caves, and Jin slips away, taking off on her own, apparently hoping to get back to her family. She treks over the rugged, exotic terrain. Filches food where she can. Swipes some civilian clothes. Hitches a few rides and almost gets raped a couple of times. Survives by her wits and an instinct for when to accept the kindness of strangers and when to bolt. But she can't escape the war, or the artillery fire that shatters the quiet and blasts the landscape and always seems to be directed at her. She runs. She hides. She climbs trees. She cowers in caves. She doubles back to where she was before. She can't escape. She can't escape.