MK, CH

2024

105 min

Finished

IRON CASTLE - A FILM WORKSHOP

DEMIR HISAR - FILMSKA RABOTILNICA

Directing: Mitko Panov

Synopsis

Iron Castle is a "Making of" of a film workshop set in a Psychiatric Hospital, during and after the pandemic lockdown. The story follows filmmaker/Instructor Kevin Keaton, as he arrives to the town of Demir Hisar, population 2000 ( in Turkish: Iron Castle ) and struggles to keep the workshop afloat against mounting financial difficulties. The poignant enthusiasm and creative mindset of the participant/patients save the workshop from a fiasco, and lead it to its natural conclusion - the Final Ceremnoy - erasing on its way the borderline between documentary and fiction.