2m²

Tayfun, a funeral director for the Belgian-Turkish community, must help families decide where their loved ones should be buried. With his dry humor and daily negotiations, 2m² reveals the mix of connectedness, bureaucracy, and small absurdities that shape life between two homelands.How Much Land Does a Man Require? is the English title of an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoj. In contemporary terms, the answer might be: 2 m² – the size of a grave. That is the sector in which Genk-based Tayfun Veli Arslan’o has found success: the burial of the deceased.Yet, at almost every funeral, one specific question accompanies him: where exactly must the final resting place be? Most people who need his services are immigrants or their descendants, and many families prefer not to bury their loved ones in Belgian soil, but in their country of origin.That choice brings complications, sometimes serious, sometimes absurd, and Arslan’o has learned to deal with them with a straight face and a remarkable dose of dry humor.His approach turns 2 m² into something few would expect: a documentary about a funeral director who is enthusiastic about his work, aware of the ethical weight of it, and not deterred by the import-export complications of international funerals — ultimately resulting in an accessible and often lighthearted look at intercultural differences.in collaboration with D'Oranje Giraffen