Screening Dates: Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 8:00 p.m. / Saturday, November 22, 2025, 6:30 p.m. / Sunday, December 28, 2025, 6:30 p.m. 

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Screenplay: Evan Jones, Kenneth Cook (story)
Cast: Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Cips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle

Australia / 1971 / 108 min. / Color / English / Turkish Subtitles 

Wake in Fright, which Martin Scorsese has repeatedly expressed his admiration for since its screening at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of a primary school teacher working in a remote corner of Australia who is unable to leave a town he is forced to stop at while traveling to Sydney for vacation.

The young teacher is exposed to the townspeople’s threatening hospitality and exaggerated displays of masculinity in the triangle of alcohol, gambling, and hunting. Together with a doctor who is also a stranger to the town and who arrived a few years ago and has been unable to leave, he faces moral collapse. The townspeople, who take great pride in the order they have established, will try to trap the teacher in their own nightmare.

Wake in Fright draws its high dose of tension, successfully created, from exceedingly cheerful and enthusiastic scenes that carry the potential to turn violent at any moment.

* The film contains triggering elements. 
** The film will be screened in a 4K restored copy.
*** We thank our main program sponsor, Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi, for their support.