A year after his father’s death, Bahadir, a struggling artist living in Istanbul returns to the small village he grew up in to oversee the weeklong grape harvest. But what he finds is a region at grips with climate change, on the brink of abandonment, and a looming decision to make: part with his family’s heritage or fight to salvage it.
Mom’s pale flowers
Directed by: Ali Cabbar
Produced by: Arthur Cohen, Ali Cabbar, Marsel Kalvo
Country of origin: Turkey
Year of production: 2025
Duration: 90 min
Category: Ecology of the Soul
Ali Cabbar
Born in Turkey in 1988, he graduated from the Dramatic Writing Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University. His first short film, Madun (2020), gained critical attention after being screened at various festivals. His second short film, Gardens Petrified (2022), explored villagers’ resistance against geothermal drilling on agricultural land and premiered at the 44th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival after receiving support from the European Union’s Think Civil Program. The film was shown at many national and international festivals and won several awards. Working at the intersection of environmental justice, human rights, and ecology, he creates films rooted in sustainability and personal narratives, and in 2025 he completed his first feature film, Mom’s Pale Flowers, while continuing to develop his second feature project.
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