Genç Pehlivanlar

Living, learning, suffering for their passion: the 26 boys living at the sports academy in the Turkish province of Amasya will endure a lot to realize their wrestling dream. In Young Wrestlers they face the usual challenges of adolescence in a male dominated environment and contradictory contemporary Turkey. The observational camera remains unobtrusive while still allowing us to experience their everyday life at close range-somewhere between camaraderie and competition. (İKSV)