until i lose my breath nefesim kesilene kadar turkey, germany 2015, 94’, colour director Emine Emel Balcı script Emine Emel Balcı cinematography Murat Tuncel editing Dora Vajda, Emine Emel Balcı cast Esme Madra, Rıza Akın, Sema Keçik, Gizem Denizci, Ece Yüksel, Uğur Uzunel, Yavuz Pekman, Pınar Gök, Yavuz Özata production Prolog Film, Unafilm Gmbh contact Prolog Film, Nadir Öperli T +90 536 845 5421
[email protected] Serap is a quiet but hotheaded adolescent girl, who Emine Emel Balcı (1984) works long hours in a cramped clothing workshop graduated from the Mi- as a runner. mar Sinan Fine Arts Uni- versity Department of Fed up with her abusive brother-in-law and distant Film and TV. Her short sister, Serap keeps herself going with the hope that films and documentaries she can move into an apartment with her father, a have screened at numerous national and international long-distance truck driver. film festivals and won several awards. Until I Lose My Breath is Balcı’s first feature film. Since her father is quite indifferent to Serap’s wish- es, however, she decides to take matters into her filmography own hands. 2007 Gölün Kadınları Woman of the Lake (short documentary) 2008 Bekleyiş The Waiting (short) 2012 Ich Liebe Dich (documentary) 4 snow pirates kar korsanları turkey 2015, 83’, colour director Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu script Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu cinematography Türksoy Gölebeyi editing Orhan Örsman, Ayhan Ergürsel music Mehmet Ünal cast Taha Tegin Özdemir, Yakup Özgür Kurtaal, Ömer Uluç, İsa Mastar, İlker Sır, Yücel Can production-distribution Kars Film, Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu T +90 536 899 0747
[email protected] www.snowpiratesmovie.com 1981… Turkey is on the brink of one of the most Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu (Kars, brutal coup d’état in its history, but also facing one 1965) earned a BSc de- of the harshest winters of recent years… In Kars, a gree in Agricultural En- city with a rich historical heritage in the farthest gineering from Akdeniz northeast corner, people’s need for coal is as acute University and a BA de- as their need for freedom.