Waiting for the clouds (Bulutlari Beklerken)

“Waiting for the Clouds” deals with a historical trauma going back to the antagonistic Turkish-Greek relations in 1916, when Greek families had to be evacuated from Turkey.
Little girl Eleni flees with her parents and her small brother through bitter cold and snow along the Black Sea coast. The parents die, and after a Turkish family takes care of her, she grows up as Ayse. Her brother Niko ends up in a children’s home and is eventually brought to Greece, while Eleni leads a life in secrecy with her double identities. She undergoes a grave crisis when her elder sister dies and the psychological repression mechanisms begins to crack. Gradually, the Greek language returns to her, and she finally learns that Niko lives in Thessaloniki. Elini travels there, only to discover that she remains a stranger. “Waiting For The Clouds” raises questions about ‘who we are’ and ‘where we belong’, as it digs deeper into the intrinsic universal human feelings of love, guilt, fear and sharing.