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Phases of Matter (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Phases of Matter' is a 2020 documentary directed by Deniz Tortum about the Cerrahpaa Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. It premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020, and won the Best Documentary Award in Both Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and Istanbul International Film Festival.
Plot
Phases of Matter follows the day-to-day lives of various workers, such as surgeons, trainees, nurses, and imams at Istanbul's Cerrahpaa Hospital.
Awards and nominations
Reception
On the film aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100%.
Peter Keough of Boston Globe wrote "Had Frederick Wisemans Hospital wandered into Lars von Trier's The Kingdom the unlikely result might have resembled Deniz Tortum's haunting and hypnotic Phases of Matter," while in his critique on Reverse Shot, James Wham wrote "We feel the hospitals heartbeat; we hear this organism breathe."
References
Category:2020 films
Category:2020 documentary films
Category:Turkish documentary films
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