Av: The Hunt is a 2020 thriller film that was directed by Emre Akay.
Ayà Âe is a married woman who has been conducting an affair behind her husband's back. When this infidelity is discovered, the men in her family react violently. Her lover ends up dead in the process and Ayà Âe must find a way to flee to Istanbul, where she will be safe. She is given no help from her family, as they have disowned her, and even the people around her seem ambivalent at best to her obvious plight.
During the creation process Akay received an award for Av: The Hunt from the Antalya Film Forum.
Av: The Hunt had its world premiere in Switzerland at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in July 2020, after which it screened at several other film festivals throughout the world such as FrightFest.
Av: The Hunt holds a rating of on Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews. Multiple reviews praised the acting of Billur Melis Koç, with Screen Anarchy noting that she "does the vast majority of the heavy lifting" and comparing her favorably to Matilda Lutz in Revenge. Kim Newman also praised the acting and wrote that "ItâÂÂs relentless and exciting, but also grim â with a sense of the monotonousness of entrenched male evil thatâÂÂs hard to argue with but dramatically a little flat."