Turkey Picks 'Like a Limbless Tree' for Oscar Race
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- Turkey selected "Like a Limbless Tree," directed by Tunç Davut, as its entry for the Academy Award for best international feature film at the 99th ceremony on March 14.
- "Like a Limbless Tree" stars Ali Ipin, Fayyaz Duman, and Selen Kurtaran, and is produced by Istanbul-based Tekhne Film.
- The film follows a retired engineer named Refik diagnosed with a terminal disease whose Syrian caregiver disappears while attempting to flee to Europe, leaving him in charge of her two children.
- The film won an award at the Bosphorus Film Festival and was selected for the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and the Ankara Film Festival.
- Turkey is pursuing its first Oscar nomination after making the shortlist once in 2008 with Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Three Monkeys."
- The submission deadline for the international feature film category is Sept. 30.
Why it matters: Turkey hasn't earned an Oscar nomination since making the shortlist once in 2008 with "Three Monkeys," making this submission a roughly two-decade-overdue bid. The Sept. 30 deadline and March 14 ceremony bookend a long-shot run grounded in a film that already cleared three Turkish festival circuits.
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