Dormitory (Turkish: Yurt) is a 2023 Turkish-German-French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Nehir Tuna, at his feature film debut.
For the film, Nehir Tuna drew on his own experience attending a religious boarding school for five years.
[1] The film is a sequel of his award-winning short film The Shoes,[2] and is a co-production by Turkish company TN Yapım, German Red Balloon Film GmbH, and French Ciné-Sud Promotion, with support from the Sundance Fellowship for Production and Development.
[3] Filming took place in Izmir, in the Aegean Region of Turkey, between 2019 and 2022.
[5] The film was described as 'a pleasant surprise, offering the paradoxical story of a teenager caught between religious tensions and explosions of testosterone.