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FEATURE FILM Contact Dijital Sanatlar Mustafa Uslu mustafa@dijitalsanatlar.com + AF Media Ali Fidan ali@alifidan.com ( ) Director Can Ulkay TURKISH CINEMA 2018 Can Ulkay was born in in İstanbul. He graduated from Marmara University Institute of Fine Arts Cinema and Televi- sion Department, and worked in TRT İstanbul Television be- tween and . Since he shot music videos and thousands of commercials for Coca Cola, Turkish Airlines, P&G, Ford, Turkcell, Turk Tele- kom, KIA including hundreds of major brands. Contact Dijital Sanatlar Mustafa Uslu mustafa@dijitalsanatlar.com + AF Media Ali Fidan ali@alifidan.com ( ) Director Can Ulkay Can Ulkay was born in in İstanbul. He graduated from Marmara University Institute of Fine Arts Cinema and Televi- sion Department, and worked in TRT İstanbul Television be- tween and . Since he shot music videos and thousands of commercials for Coca Cola, Turkish Airlines, P&G, Ford, Turkcell, Turk Tele- kom, KIA including hundreds of major brands. FEATURE FILMS Contact Limon Production Hayri Aslan [email protected] + Director Onur Ünlü Onur Ünlü was born in , Turkey and graduated from An- adolu University. He worked as a scriptwriter and as a director in various TV series. He re- ceived numerous awards from prestigious film festivals and his films has been screened worldwide. TURKISH CINEMA 2018 THE WILD PEAR TREE AHLAT AĞACI Turkey, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia, Sweden 2018, 188’Colour Contact Memento Films International, Emilie Georges + sales@memento-films.com Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a filmmak- DIRECTOR Nuri Bilge Ceylan PRODUCER Zeynep Atakan SCRIPT $N¿Q$NVX(EUX er, photographer and actor. His &H\ODQ1XUL%LOJH&H\ODQDOP Gökhan Tiryaki EDITING Nuri Bilge Ceylan CAST first two features films Small $\G¿Q'RǚX'HPLUNRO0XUDW&HPFLU%HQQX<¿OG¿U¿PODU+D]DU(UJ»¦O»6HUNDQ .HVNLQ7DPHU/HYHQW Town and Clouds of May were screened at the Berlin Film Fes- For some, the countryside is a place of exile where all hopes tival. His subsequent films Dis- ultimately merge with solitude. A boundless place of exile tant, Climates, Three Monkeys THE WILD PEAR TREE and Once Upon a Time in Anato- where all hopes and dreams merge with despair like the lia, have won multiple awards in- coinciding destinies of fathers and sons... cluding two Grand Jury Prizes, and the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film Winter Sleep () received the Palme d’Or, the top honour at the Cannes Film Festival. Winter Sleep, .óġ8\NXVX Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, %LU=DPDQODU$QDGROXųGD Three Monkeys, ©0D\PXQ Climates,òNOLPOHU Distant,8]DN Clouds of May, 0D\óV6óNóQWóVó The Small Town, .DVDED WEB SITE: www.nuribilgeceylan.com Cocoon, .R]D 08 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 ADEM’S HAND ADEM’İN ELİ Turkey 2017, 115’ Colour Contact Bilal Bağcı [email protected] + ¡ Director $\GóQ.HWHQDá Aydın Ketenağ has attended to many festivals, such as DIRECTOR $\G¿Q.HWHQDǚ PRODUCER %LODO%DǚF¿ SCRIPT $\G¿Q.HWHQDǚ DOP Ankara, Antalya Altın Portakal, /HYHQW]W»UN$\G¿Q.HWHQDǚ $\G¿Q.HWHQDǚ (UD\(UHQ6HQHP Kıbrıs, Rotterdam, Signes de EDITING CAST ADEM’S HANDADEM’S $NPDQ1XUL.DUDGHQL]7HNLQ(]J»WHNLQ Nuit, Curtas Vila do Conde, where he won awards like Best The film tells the story of the efforts of 10 years old Picture and Cinematography. Director is currently an Ac- Mustafa, trying to draw the picture that his teacher gave as ademic in Kocaeli University a homework. Mustafa aims to draw the picture of the most and he holds Masters and Doc- beautiful ‘’thing’’ he has ever seen, because his teacher torate degrees in Cinema and Philosophy. Adem’s Hand is his wants him to do so. He travels around with his bicycle first motion picture. and looks for the ‘’special’’ picture. Besides, he shares the emptiness of his father’s loss with his family. Teacher Murat, who had left art teaching in the university and started teaching painting for the elementary students in the village, shares Mustafa’s effort like a student. TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/255357244 09 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 ALL FELICITIES ARE POSSIBLE BÜTÜN SAADETLER MÜMKÜNDÜR Turkey, 2017, 97’ Colour Contact Selman Kılıçaslan [email protected] Director 6HOPDQ.óOó©DVODQ Selman Kılıçaslan was born in in Sakarya. He grad- uated from the Department of Cinema and TV at Marma- DIRECTOR 6HOPDQ.¿O¿¦DVODQ PRODUCER 6HOPDQ.¿O¿¦DVODQ=»OILNDU.»U»P ra University in . During SCRIPT 6HOPDQ.¿O¿¦DVODQ DOP ǛONHU%HUNHEDITING $\KDQ(UJ»UVHO0$EG»OJDIXU his education, he made many ǜDKLQ1DLP.DQDW CAST .HPDO8¦DU$ULI(UNLQ5XKL6DU¿1LOD\(UGµQPH] short-length films.He wrote the scripts of multiple TV se- Ali is an engineering student and he dreams to go abroad ries telecasted on Turkish TV channels. After taking a ca- with Erasmus project, leaving behind the town that he lives reer break from TV series, he in. At the same time he goes through a searching period started to write full-length ALL FELICITIES ARE POSSIBLE ARE FELICITIES ALL that he tries to know himself, asking questions about life. scripts and also scripts of His quiet life is stirred up upon his crash to Gülce who is documentary. Bütün Saadetler Mümkündür is his first fea- singing in a folk music cafe. Gülce is a nursing student and ture-length film, made with to get over her economic problems she works as a caregiver the contribution of Turkish to an old and lonely man in one of the old neighborhoods Ministry of Culture and Tour- of Adapazarı. Ali is drawn to Gülce and gets to know her; ism and of TRT. meanwhile he becomes involved in Mevlüt’s story too. Ali goes on his search on the threshold of this encounter, asking a question to which he wouldn’t find an answer to… Is any happiness possible? TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMzQjW_gw4 10 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 ARADA Turkey 2018, 88’ Colour, Black & White Contact Match Point Melis Nersesoğlu Konca + ¡ [email protected] Director Mu Tunç Mu Tunç was born ¡ in Is- DIRECTOR 0X7XQ¦ PRODUCER 5XHGH3HUD+DVDQREDQRǚOX SCRIPT 0X7XQ¦ tanbul. Mu Tunç completed DOP 8WNX6µQPH]HU EDITING $KPHW7HNHMUSIC2UNXQ7XQ¦ CAST %XUDN'HQL] his undergraduate degree in %»ǝUD'HYHOL6HOLP%D\UDNWDU(ULǝ$NPDQ'HQL]&HOLORǚOX Design and his gradute degree ARADA in Cinema. He started using During the 90’s unrest in Turkey, a young punk rocker in camera in a very young age at Istanbul tracks down a cruise ticket to California on the night his brother’s punk concerts to record his live performances. of his birthday gig. Based on the director’s personal family He shoot his first commercial story. at years old and after his university degree he become one of the youngest creative director of Turkey. Worked at many di¤erent ad-agencies, such as; McCann. He direct- ed advertising and marketing campaigns, including Co- ca-Cola, L’oreal, MasterCard, Starbucks and many other international brands. In , the visual diary channel he created under the name “Di- ary of Mu” became one of the leading vlogger projects on the internet. “Arada” his debut feature film. TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B29G_o8zcA 11 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 NEVER LEAVE ME BIRAKMA BENİ Turkey, Bosnia- Herzegovina, 2017, 97’ Colour Contact 6LQDQ<HġLOEDġ VLQDQ\HVLOEDV#EHVLURUJWU Director Aida Begic She was born in Sarajevo. DIRECTOR $LGD%HJLFPRODUCER6H\\LG0XKDPPHG(PLQ(O+»VH\QLSCRIPT She graduated in directing at $LGD%HJLFDOP (URO=XEFHYLFEDITING 5HG]LQDOG6LPHNCAST ǛVD'HPODNKL the Sarajevo Academy of Per- $KPDG+XVURP0RWD])DH]%DVKD&DUROH$EERXG7XND1DØDO0HKPHW8VWD forming Arts. Her graduation film “Prvo Smrtno Iskustvo” (First Death Experience) was After his mother dies, Isa is sent to an orphanage for presented at The Cinéfonda- Syrian refugees in Şanlıurfa, Turkey. There he makes an NEVER LEAVE ME tion O¤icial Selection of the uneasy friendship with Ahmad and Motaz. Ahmad’s father Cannes Film Festival. Aida Be- disappeared in Syria but he never lost hope they will be gić teaches Directing at The Academy of Performing Arts rejoined one day. Motaz’s mother remarried and left him in Sarajevo and she is member of the orphanage. Although the three boys are very different AMPAS, EFA, SACD and UFRBiH. in their temperament and desires and not particularly fond of each other, they find a common interest; they all want to leave the orphans’ home and start a new life. The dangers that threatened to ruin their lives will give them a reason to find love, friendship and hope. TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K43Ou0KK09c 12 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 $5Ǜ)9 Turkey 2018, 125’ Colour and Black & White Contact NuPeople [email protected] + ITV – Inter Medya Can Okan + [email protected] DIRECTOR .¿YDQ¦%DUXµQ» PRODUCER 0X]DIIHU<¿OG¿U¿P&HP<¿OPD] SCRIPT &HP Director <¿OPD] DOP -HDQ3DXO6HUHVLQ MUSIC ǛVNHQGHU3D\GDǝ CAST &HP<¿OPD]2]DQ .óYDQ©%DUX¸Q¾ *»YHQ6HGD%DNDQ]NDQ8ǚXU=DIHU$OJµ] $5ǝ)9 He completed his elementa- Arif had returned to earth after having lots of friends in ry, secondary and high school education in Zonguldak. While thousand light years ahead with his adventure on the planet studying at Ankara Universi- Gora and now he is living quietly. One day, an unexpected ty Faculty of Communication guest, Robot 216 brings a new adventure to Arif. Radio, Television and Cinema Department, he was interest- ed in theatre and photography. This humanoid robot coming to earth from far, far away wants He worked for many years in to live like a real human being, fall in love with some like a real one of Turkey’s first private human being and wants to laugh and cry like a real human radio stations as programmer and chief editor.