Çilingir Sofrasi

Ahmet Rifat Sungar delivers the perfect depiction of fragile toxic masculinity, which sadly permeates not just Turkey, but the world. His character can be your average "rock star", or any man with fancy power, clinging to stereotype while shattering the lives of others: in this case, his new family's, while attempting to abuse the man he loves. The openly gay man smiles through it all, a picture of resilience, while the toxic love of his friend reverberates the oppression of society: an aspiring headmistress shows up to warn him, while his lover mocks the prospect of gay relationships ever being legalised.

There's beautiful music in the midst of it all, the typical Turkish song of love and longing, which Zeki Muren epitomised and whom toxic society ironically worshipped.

Edit: the film is heartbreaking, I wish I could own it to see more than twice. And the song by Nazan Oncel is fantastic.