AV The Hunt

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AV: The Hunt
Directed byEmre Akay
Written byEmre Akay
Deniz Cuylan
Produced byEmre Akay
Diloy Gülün
Natasha Markou
Tolga Topcu
StarringBillur Melis Koç
Ahmet Rifat Sungar
Yagiz Can Konyali
Adam Bay
Kenan Acar
Baki Ridvan Kaymaz
Music byBrian Bender
Deniz Cuylan
Release date
Running time
86 minutes
CountryTurkey
LanguageTurkish

AV: The Hunt, also known as AV and also stylized as Av The Hunt, is a 2020 thriller film that was directed by Emre Akay.

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Plot

Ayse is a married woman who has been conducting an affair behind her husband's back. When this infidelity is discovered, the men in her family react violently. Her lover ends up dead in the process and Ayse must find a way to flee to Istanbul, where she will be safe. She is given no help from her family, as they have disowned her, and even the people around her seem ambivalent at best to her obvious plight.

Cast

Development

During the creation process Akay received an award for AV: The Hunt from the Antalya Film Forum. [2]

Release

AV: The Hunt had its world premiere in Switzerland at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in July 2020, after which it screened at several other film festivals throughout the world such as FrightFest. [3] [4] [5]

Reception

AV: The Hunt holds a rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on nine reviews. [6] Multiple reviews praised the acting of Billur Melis Koç, [7] with Screen Anarchy noting that she "does the vast majority of the heavy lifting" and comparing her favorably to Matilda Lutz in Revenge . [8] Kim Newman also praised the acting and wrote that "It’s relentless and exciting, but also grim – with a sense of the monotonousness of entrenched male evil that’s hard to argue with but dramatically a little flat." [9]

Awards

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  8. "Neuchâtel 2020 Review: AV: THE HUNT Is Thrilling, Prescient, Thought-Provoking Genre Cinema". ScreenAnarchy. 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
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