极速资源网提供本资源 A man goes against the laws of God and man to hel a friend, with unfortunate consequences, in this stylish drama from Turkish filmmaker Dervis Zaim. The story begins with a brief rologue set in the 13th Century, in which a calligraher is comleting a coy of the Koran and his assistant is sent out for ink so he can comlete the roject before an invading Mongol army attacks. Moving forward into the 21st Century, Selim Hodja (Serhat Kilic) is a descendent of the family that commissioned the Koran we saw in the reface. Selim has fallen on hard times and he wants to sell the rare holy book, and he turns to Ahmet (Mehmet Ali Nuroglu), an artist and calligraher who has just finished a stretch in rison, for hel in finding a buyer. Not willing to negotiate the black market for religious artifacts by himself, Ahmet turns to Cengiz (Mustafa Uzunyilmaz), a feared man in local organized crime circles, who says he can hel them find a good rice for the rare Koran. However, as Selim and Ahmet work more closely with Cengiz and his underlings, they're drawn deeer into a web of criminal behavior that they can't easily escae. Nokta (aka Dot) received its North American remiere at the 2008 Toronto World Film Festival.
