The Waiting Room (Bekleme Odasi)

“The Waiting Room”, which won the Fipresci Award at the 2004 Valencia Festival, is a deep reflection on the creative process and about loneliness and alienation. The story is uncomfortable and ambiguous and the result is a powerful psychological drama and a metaphor of the problems of writers and artists.
Director Ahmet is trying to make a film version of Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment’, but he feels unreasonably uninterested towards both his project and his girlfriend Serap. He feels like he is alienated from his own life. Serap thinks that Ahmet’s devastating mood is because of another woman. One night, after a long and oppressive inquiry session, Ahmet gets bored and tells her that he is having an affair; Serap leaves the house. Meanwhile, his assistant is trying to find a person for Roskolnikof’s role, the leading character of the novel. Ahmet doesn’t like any of the actors that have participated in the audition. Finally, he decides to give the role to the young thief who tried to break into his house. Nevertheless, he has no idea where to find this young man.