A New Teenage Survivalist Fairytale: Reha Erdem's Jin

Like the fabled heroine whose plight she shares, Jîn wears a red hood and lives in a land that both harbours and harms her. In this 2013 Turkish film, we watch a powerful young protagonist caught in the crossfire as man battles nature and men war with other men, writes Sarah Ward.

Additional keywords: Asia, Jin, Little Red Riding Hood, Turkey, heroine, Deniz Hasgüler, Hasguler, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault.