KÎZÎM

2026

78 min

Drama

Director: Radu Potcoavă

Screenplay: Elias Ferkin

Cinematography: Liviu Mărghidan

Cast: Tudor Chirila, Elias Ferkin, Yeliz Mustafa 

Synopsis: 

Set in present-day Constanța, in a neighborhood on the edge of the city’s port, the film follows Selda, a 16-year-old Tatar girl determined to break free from the weight of the traditions she was raised with. While secretly in love with Tudor, a Christian boy, her parents struggle to convince her that Tatar faith and customs matter more than her personal desires and future.

When an unexpected incident, misunderstood by her parents, leads them to forbid her from seeing Tudor, Selda becomes even more convinced that she must take control of her own life. Her love for Tudor grows stronger, and she runs away from home, longing only for the ordinary teenage life she feels she belongs to.

Caught between two worlds, Selda must choose between family expectations and the freedom to define her own future.

Radu Potcoavă

Radu Potcoavă (1978, Bucharest) is a Romanian film director.

His short film Miss Sueño won the Grand Prix at the Huesca International Film Festival in Spain. He graduated from Gheorghe Lazăr National College in 1997 and Hyperion University in 2001, and later studied screenwriting at the Binger FilmLab in Amsterdam.

In Romania, he has directed several short films, the feature films Happy End (2006), The In-Laws (2014), and Summer’s Over (2016), as well as television series including Ours (PRO TV), The Silent Valley (HBO Romania), and Vlad (PRO TV).