Muslim Journeys: Tatil Katabi (2009) A Film of Turkish Life Directed by Seyfi Teoman

Let's set aside religion for one night and spend some time with family in this slice of life, foreign yet familiar, from contemporary Turkey. Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant, known by the people who love him as cold and austere. One day on a business trip, he suffers a serious brain hemorrhage and is trapped in a coma. He leaves behind a wife who suspects him of having an affair, a teenage son who wants to leave the military academy and follow in his footsteps—and perhaps eclipse him—as a businessman, and a younger son whose hectic life is consumed by the bullies who pursue him and the chewing gum he has to sell. But what about Mustafa's younger brother, Hasan? Hasan chose to live a life of solitude after getting a divorce—he was always an outsider to the family anyway. Now he finds himself up to his neck in family affairs and is tasked with solving the mystery of his brother's alleged mistress and the money lost during his trip.