Tomato, Pepper, Depression backdrop
Tomato, Pepper, Depression poster
Trailer
Tomato, Pepper, Depression
4.0
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1h 8m
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2024
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Released
Overview
Tomatoes, peppers, and all the other plants in Adana’s Çetirevli village survive on medications, just like the diagnosed depression patients who make up half of the village population. As the production of pepper paste—the village’s source of livelihood—goes through various stages such as harvesting, sorting, and grinding, the burden of physically heavy work on people’s mental worlds gradually increases. During a summer coinciding with the pepper harvest, the director retraces the summer memories of her childhood and pursues the question, "how to make pepper paste when depressed? The camera follows her uncle Mehmet, who suffers from depression, his wife Naziye, and her elder uncle Yakup, who lives in the same house and also grapples with depression.

Cast
Mehmet Özdemir poster
Mehmet Özdemir
Self
Naziye Özdemir poster
Naziye Özdemir
Self
Yakup Özdemir poster
Yakup Özdemir
Self

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