Boys may very well be boys, but it’s the adults of director Ferit Karahan’s thrillingly subversive Brother’s Keeper that might need some schoolyard discipline. Set against the backdrop of eastern Turkey during the cruelest of winter months, the simmering Yusuf (Samet Yildiz) seeks medical help after discovering the nearly incapacitated body of his bedwetting bunkmate Memo (Nurullah Alaca). As his clamoring for help continues to fall on deaf ears, Yusuf takes matters into his own hands, revealing the ineptitude of authority and intelligence around him. As the adults squabble over who is at fault for Memo’s ailment, Karahan slyly reveals a corrupt system at work in which pride and rank reign supreme in a school system where education is an afterthought. Inspired by the filmmaker's own harrowing experience as a young Kurdish student at an all-boys boarding school, Brother’s Keeper is startling with its darkly humorous disdain for order and responsibility.