The Institute for Hispanic and International Communication,
The TTU Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center,
and LHUCA/Flatland Film present...Global Lens 2012: Toll Booth
A taciturn tollbooth attendant shuffles between a suffocating home life with his ailing father and the monotony of the box where he works. Desperate to resist his father’s attempt to marry him off while determined to prove his worth by fixing his family’s broken-down car, he drives himself toward a nervous breakdown. After a reassignment to a desolate country road, he begins a flirtatious relationship with a woman who drives by each day. But is this salvation for the aging bachelor, or the further unraveling of his mind? An expert cast and keen art direction contribute to this wry, heartbreaking ode to lost dreams in a sleepwalking world.
Director: Tolga Karaçelik
Turkey | 2010 | 96 minutes
Turkish, with subtitles in English
Panelists:
Dr. James Dembowski, Assistant Professor, School of Allied Health Sciences, TTUHSC
Lahib Jaddo, MFA, Associate Professor, College of Architecture, TTU
Rob Weiner, Associate Humanities Librarian, TTU Libraries
Global Lens 2012 is a project of the Global Film Initiative
www.globalfilm.org
