Directed by Umut Dag. Starring Nihal Koldas, Begum Akkaya, Vedat Erincin, Murathan Muslu, Alev Irmak. Light House Cinema, 6.35pm ****
Kuma is Turkish for second wife and they don’t come more secondary than Ayse, a village girl tricked into marriage to a much older Austrian-Turkish father. In Vienna, wife number one has cancer and hopes to train the girl in as her replacement. But not everyone in the family is on board. Umut Dag’s gripping modern tragedy explores and explodes these outmoded marital arrangements through elegant performance and domestic squabbles.
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