Doğa Lara Akkaya

Director's first non-genre feature film is a strictly +18, erotic, punk and emotional love letter to French New Wave which sets in the dog days of summer.

Tozluyaka (الياقة المغبرة) is a 2022 Turkish youth drama set in Istanbul, where three inseparable friends from a humble neighborhood are devastated when their brilliant best friend dies under suspicious circumstances at an elite private school. Determined to uncover the truth, they infiltrate the same institution — confronting wealth, privilege, and dark secrets while navigating first love, loyalty, and the painful gap between two very different worlds.