Not Worth a Fig is a 2009 Turkish drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 written and directed by Selda Çiçek based on a true story about a woman unhappily married to her late sister's husband. The film, which went on nationwide release on , was selected for the 16th London Turkish Film Festival

16th London Turkish Film Festival

The 16th London Turkish Film Festival is a film festival held in London, England which ran from November 4 to 18, 2010. During the course of the festival seventeen feature films and two programmes of shorts were presented at the Apollo Theatre and the Rio Cinema.The festival began with an opening...

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Synopsis

The plot focuses on one day in the life of a family and is centred around Heda who is unhappily married to her late sister's husband. At the same time, Heda's mother Cemile is suffering from ever-deepening depression but no one even notices... or cares a fig.

General release

The film opened on general release in 20 screens across Turkey on at number fourteen in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of US$12,554.