Documentary | 2m² 

TURKEY/BELGIUM — In 2m² (2026), the Belgium based director Volkan Üce follows Tayfun, a Turkish-Belgian funeral entrepreneur who navigates the bureaucracy of death with a professional detachment that never veers into coldness. There is a beautiful linguistic irony at play: in Turkish, the words Mezar (grave) and Ziyaret (visit) share the same root. This etymological link highlights the film’s central conflict: if a Turkish migrant dies in Belgium, where and how should their loved ones visit them?

This feature-length documentary takes on a deeper, almost haunting dimension when you view it through the lens of Turkish scholar Zeynep Sayın’s monumental book, Ölüm Terbiyesi (« The Discipline of Death », 2018). Sayın suggests that at the moment of death, the corpse and our image of the dead person diverge. Death is the ultimate human boundary; the image we carry of the dead depends on this separation from the physical body.

In 2m², we see this transition in real-time. As a funeral director, Tayfun isn’t merely transporting a body; he is managing a dead person’s final image. Whether through a tombstone or a photograph, Tayfun’s work is to curate that representation for those left behind.

Despite the grim subject matter, the film excels as a comedy of intercultural manners. Ultimately, 2m² is that rare documentary: a piece of gallows humor that is also a profound existential meditation.