Omar and Us
Nominees and Awards
Synopsis
Ismet is a recently retired Turkish soldier whose last post was as a Commander of the Coast Guard at the Turkish maritime border. New to civilian life, he struggles to communicate with his family and the people around him. His only son abandoned him and left for the U.S., and now his wife wants to join her son, too. In an unexpected turn of events, he suddenly becomes neighbors with two refugees, Omar and Mariye. Through this encounter and firsthand experience of what refugees have to go through, he is finally able to face his prejudices…
Team
Director
Maryna ER GORBACH
Maryna ER GORBACH is a Ukrainian filmmaker. She is a graduate of Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema & Television University (Ukraine), and Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing (Poland). She has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2017.
Director
Mehmet Bahadir ER
Maryna ER GORBACH and Mehmet Bahadir ER are a wife and husband director duo from Ukraine and Turkey, respectively. In 2009, they released their first feature film, Black Dogs Barking, followed by Love Me in 2013 and Omar and Us in 2019.
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