De kinderen van mijn vader

Director Meral Uslu was born in Turkey, came to Holland with her parents, was sent back to live with her grandparents in Turkey and moved back to Holland again. These forced migrations largely result from the unstable family situation she grew up in. In the 1960s, her father Ata Uslu came to the Netherlands as a Turkish emigrant. Instead of disappearing into the anonymity of the immigrant workers, he revealed himself to be a bon vivant and made a small fortune as a businessman in Haarlem, which he ended up losing later on. He became an example for the Turkish community and was even in the newspapers. Until adolescence, Meral was allowed to go to the pub with him, where she recited poems to the other customers. Then a curfew was imposed on her, and she ran away. In Uslu, who lost contact with her family years ago, tries to trace the life of her father, who has meanwhile returned to Turkey. It is a bumpy, but also unusually light-hearted journey, with a father who mainly laughs off his responsibility and children who seem to forgive his mistakes, while gradually one extramarital affair after another pops up and Uslu ends up with at least five half brothers and sisters.