feature films feature films notes 1 2 feature films feature films 3 4 feature films mustang france, turkey, germany 2015, 97’, colour director Deniz Gamze Ergüven script Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour cinematography David Chizallet, Ersin Gök editing Mathilde Van de Moortel music Warren Ellis cast Güneş Nezihe Şensoy, Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit İşcan, İlayda Akdoğan, Nihal Koldaş, Ayberk Pekcan production CG Cinema (Charles Gillibert), Bam Film (Mine Vargı), Vistamar Filmproduktion (Frank Henschke), Uhlandfilm (Anja Uhland) T +33 6 7193 7790
[email protected] It’s the beginning of the summer. Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Ankara, 1978) studied In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four Filmmaking at La Fémis sisters come home from school, innocently playing in Paris afer earning with boys.The supposed debauchery of their games degrees in Literature causes a scandal with unintended consequences. and African History in The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes Johannesburg. Her graduation film, Bir Damla Su (A on housework and cooking replace school, and mar- Drop of Water, 2006), was selected for the Festi- riages begin to be arranged. The five sisters, driven val de Cannes Cinéfondation, and won an award in by the same desire for freedom, fight back against the Leopards of Tomorrow section at Locarno. Afer the limits imposed on them. graduating from La Fémis, she developed her first feature film project called Kings, which won the 2011 session of Emergence, the filmmaking school founded by Elisabeth Depardieu, and was selected for the 2011 Cinéfondation Workshop and 2012 Sundance Screenwriters Lab.