Burning Days
Alternative title: Kurak Günler

Directed by Emin Alper

Emre, a newly appointed prosecutor in a small town, gets entangled in a political scandal during his first criminal case.
Burning Days is an excellent Turkish political thriller in which a young prosecutor arrives in a drought-stricken town and becomes trapped inside corruption, masculinity and escalating suspicion. Emin Alper builds tension superbly, while the film’s homoerotic undertones deepen its atmosphere of social paranoia.

Burning Days

Alternative title: Kurak Günler

Directed by Emin Alper

Emre, a newly appointed prosecutor in a small town, gets entangled in a political scandal during his first criminal case.

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Burning Days is an excellent Turkish political thriller in which a young prosecutor arrives in a drought-stricken town and becomes trapped inside corruption, masculinity and escalating suspicion. Emin Alper builds tension superbly, while the film’s homoerotic undertones deepen its atmosphere of social paranoia.