TIFF 2013: Jin by Reha Erdem (trailer)

Jin is something of a Little Red Riding Hood, a teenaged girl aiming to cling to life and discover the world while stuck in the turmoil and conflict between two nations. She flees an armed organization in the mountains for an unknown reason. She spends solitary days in the mountains and forests hiding both from organization members and from security forces. Her aim is to get to the big city, to achieve her dreams of new and wider worlds unknown to her until now. Armed with a small but robust body and a fresh but powerful sense of resolve, she manages to create a space for herself in the dark and forbidding wilderness. But for Jin, the plains are more dangerous than the mountains, more threatening and more hurtful. She returns, deeply disillusioned, to her solitary existence in the mountains and reaches out mournfully to the natural world. By now her sense of rebellion has turned to despair. Stuck in an impasse, Jin has no one but the trees and animals to nurse her wounded body and soul.