Elif Arslan

In the early morning following a night shaken by citywide protests, Ali, a man in his twenties, is awakened by police sirens and forced to act as a “Hazirun” during a search of a neighboring apartment. Drawn into the process with no ability to intervene-valued only for his presence, signature, and silence-Ali becomes trapped in a gray zone between law, authority, and conscience, as events spiral out of control and irreversibly fracture his everyday life.