3 Saat (3 Hours)

“3 Hours” is a feature length documentary about the University Student Selection Exam in Turkey. Once a year over 1.5 million applicants sweat over a multiple-choice test for an uninterrupted duration of 180 minutes or 3 hours with hopes to obtain the right to higher education. Many consider this exam a “life-and-death matter,” as both the applicants and their families endure an overwhelming amount of pressure during this process. “3 Hours” focuses on the personal dimension of this experience, by following the lives of six high school seniors from different socio-economic backgrounds for more than a year. We witness the thoughts, emotions, and aspirations of these six young people and those around them, before, during, and after the exam, while the filmmakers are the observers, witnesses, intruders, and guests in the lives of these young women and men.