Your Honour

By Bircan Birol

Feature Documentary in development with Screen Scotland.

Part of the 2024 IDFA Forum and Eurodoc’s Lab for Creative Documentary Production. Director Bircan Birol has also participated in the Sheffield Doc Fest 2024 Queer Realities Director’s Lab and won the IDA Supported Artist Award after her successful pitch as part of Close up Initiative. Your Honour will also be part of Cannes 2025 Docs-in-Progress.

Law student Efruz lives under constant threat to her safety and well-being for being transgender in today’s authoritarian Turkey. Her friend Bircan films her over the years, from Efruz’s transition to becoming a pioneering trans law student in the country. When Efruz’s dream of becoming a human rights lawyer is challenged more than ever and her future hangs in the balance, the two friends set out on a journey to find strength in the past.

Unearthing both painful and happy memories, they also find hope in their friendship, marked by a unique resilience called “gullüm,” a collective resistance infused with laughter. Their last stop is an imaginary courtroom where Efruz can freely dream and truly be herself—ready to say her final goodbye to the judges of her life.