Anatolian Leopard

Fikret, director of the Ankara Zoo for 22 years, fears that investors will turn his zoo into an amusement park. The possible solution: the zoo is home to an anatolian leopard, an endangered species. With a ruse, the lonely director of Turkey's oldest zoo wants to prevent the sale. Fikret sets in motion an absurd charade that spirals out of control. The police, media, investors and the mayor soon suspect a grand conspiracy. ANATOLIAN LEOPARD is a reckoning with a generation and its politicians that like to criticize but don't want change. "Somewhere between satire, parabolic drama and melancholic comedy, gentle but not without venom, the film paints a picture of a society torn between a longing for tradition and neoliberal clear-cutting." (epd-Film)