Not Worth a Fig | |
Director: | Selda Çiçek |
Producer: | Mehmet Çiçek |
Starring: | Özgü Namal Turgay Tanülkü Veysel Diker Barış Çakmak Makbule Akbaş Derya Durmaz Onur Dikmen Burcu Salihoğlu Emrah Dönmez Halil Yomak Nalan Başaran Sevinç Erol Tuğçe Şenoğlu |
Music: | Özgür Yalçın Serkan Alkan |
Cinematography: | İlker Berke |
Editing: | Emrah Dönmez |
Studio: | Çiçek Film |
Distributor: | Özen Film |
Runtime: | 82 mins |
Country: | Turkey |
Language: | Turkish |
Gross: | US$40,366 |
Not Worth a Fig (Turkish: İncir Çekirdeği) is a 2009 Turkish drama film written and directed by Selda Çiçek based on a true story about a woman unhappily married to her late sister's husband. The film, which went on nationwide release on, was selected for the 16th London Turkish Film Festival.
The plot focuses on one day in the life of a family and is centred on Heda, who is unhappily married to her late sister's husband. At the same time, Heda's mother Cemile is suffering from ever-deepening depression but no one even notices...or cares a fig.
The film opened on general release in 20 screens across Turkey on at number fourteen in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of US$12,554.[1]