Salvation: Emin Alper’s excellent film is set in a small Turkish village high in the mountains, where a conflict is brewing between two clans. The film portrays the slow growth of the conflict and the role of the local religious leaders (and, therefore, religion) in it. The film is essentially a procedural, without any sympathetic characters, but the relentless way they move towards something terrible is quite powerful. Feyyaz Duman plays the current sheikh, a well-meaning and conciliative figure in a world where violence is natural and desired; the protagonist, however, is played by Caner Cindoruk, as his brother, a superstitious and brutal man. Cindoruk wonderfully plays, with great range, the worst type of fanatic: one who fully believes all the absurd things he says and does. The cinematographers, Ahmet Sesigürgil and Barış Aygen, effectively portray both the cold reality as well as the dreams and visions that inspire the protagonist. The dry musical score, by composer Christiaan Verbeek, proves to be quite a good fit.