A ★★★½ review of My Name Is Happy (2022)

Part of HRFFB 2023 (Human Rights Film Festival Berlin). [english] Mutlu Kaya has big plans to make it big as a singer and is about to enter the finals of Turkey's Got Talent. A man shoots Mutlu in the head in revenge for her rejection. She survives and has to relearn everything with the bullet in her head. Her sister Dilek accompanies her, but then she too is shot by an admirer. A film about still widespread femicides and the struggle of women and men for social and legal acceptance as murder. It is, of course, mostly about the story