FEATURE FILMS
FEATURE FILMS TURKISH CINEMA
BROTHER’S KEEPER OKUL TIRAŞI
Turkey, Romania, 2021, 85’, colour
Director: Ferit Karahan Producer: Kanat Doğramacı Script: Gülistan Acet, Ferit Karahan DoP: Türksoy Gölebeyi Editing: Sercan Sezgin, Hayedeh Safiyari, Ferit Karahan Ferit Karahan’s short films Before Cast: Samet Yıldız, Ekin Koç, Mahir İpek, Melih Selçuk, Cansu Fırıncı The Flood and Yusiv’s Dream have been screened at numerous festivals and have won awards and Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding honorable mentions. His feature debut The Fall From Heaven school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of premiered at the Antalya FF and Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf won Best Film. Also won Best First is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles Film Prize at the Ankara FF, and put up by the school’s repressive authorities to try to was later screened at more than help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally 15 festivals and won more than 10 awards. Ferit’s second feature film understand the seriousness of Memo’s condition and try to Brother’s Keeper will be premiered get him to the hospital, the school has been buried under a in Berlinale Panorama. sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game Filmography where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, The Fall From Heaven, 2013 as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens to run out. Yusiv’s Dream, 2011 (short) Before the Flood, 2010 (short)
Contact Asteros Film - Kanat Doğramacı [email protected]
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DIALOGUE DİYALOG
Turkey, 2021, 92’, colour
Director: Ali Tansu Turhan Producer: Burcu Uğuz, Ali Tansu Turhan Script: Burcu Uğuz, Ali Tansu Turhan DoP: Bertan Özer Editing: Osman Sarp Altay, Burcu Uğuz, Ali Tansu Turhan Ali Tansu Turhan was born in 1991, Music: Michelle Gurevich, Tuğçe Şenoğul Ankara. Graduated from Film and Cast: Hare Sürel, Ushan Çakır, Funda Eryiğit Television Department of Bahçeşe- hir University, he worked in PTOT Production Company. His first short A director on the pre-production of a film, Dialogue, Portrait selected for the Cannes chooses Ushan and Hare to play the characters Günseli Short Film Corner. Some Maniac and Veysel. Hare and Ushan meet at the table read. As and The Local Coffee House partic- rehearsals progress, they want to know more about each ipated in international film festivals. other. When their reality intertwines with that of the film He was the cinematographer of couple, the director’s film begins: Günseli and Veysel argue. Derviş Zaim’s feature film Cycle. Years of accumulated resentment turn into a noisy fight. The director’s film ends. Setting turns out to be a studio. Prop Filmography house is deconstructed. Hare and Ushan notice the camera, The Second Night, 2019 (short) still on record, turn to each other and smile. Don’t Get Me Wrong But, 2019 (short) The Local Coffee House, 2014 (short) Mitosis, 2013 (short) Some Maniac, 2012 (short) Portrait, 2011 (short)
Contact Burcu Uğuz [email protected]
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FLASHDRIVE FLAŞBELLEK
Turkey, 2020, 125’, colour
Director: Derviş Zaim Producer: Derviş Zaim Script: Derviş Zaim DoP: Andreas Sinanos Editing: Aylin Zoi Tinel Derviş Zaim graduated from Music: Marios Takoushis Boğaziçi University with an Cast: Salah Bakri, Sara El Debuch, Ali Suleiman, Husam Chadat Economics degree and then from Warwick University with an MA in Cultural Studies. His debut feature Based on the tragedy of events in Syria, the story of the film Somersault In A Coffin won him international recognition and nu- portrays a Syrian wounded war veteran who risks his life to merous awards at leading festivals stop the bloodshed in his country. He has to decide between worldwide. This was followed in protecting his life and paying his debt to humanity. His 2000 by the films Elephants and choice will be on a path to protection of human dignity. Grass, Mud, Waiting for Heaven, Dot, Shadows and Faces, Cycle, Fish which achieved success at national and international festivals.
Filmography Dream, 2016 Fish, 2014 Cycle, 2013 Shadows and Faces, 2010 Dot, 2006 Waiting For Heaven, 2004 Parallel Trips, 2004 (documentary) Mud, 2003 Elephant and Grass, 2000 Somersault in a Coffin, 1996
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FORGIVENESS AF
Turkey, 2020, 95’, colour
Director: Cem Özay Producer: Ömür Güner Script: Cem Özay, Selime Tuğçe Öztabak DoP: Sebastian Weber Editing: Cem Özay, Ali Sait Demir Cem Özay was born in 1983 in Cast: Timur Acar, Emine Meyrem, Hakan Aslan, Yusuf Bayraktar, Macit Koper the south-eastern province of Gaziantep in Turkey. He worked as an editor for various news Struggles within the family deepen due to the authoritarian agencies before moving into the and unjust attitudes of the father, who lives in a forest film industry in 2003. Starting off village and works in lumber trade. Forgiving each other is as a line producer, he later began the only way out of the psychological crisis for members of writing and directing. He made his this family. first film, a short titled Passenger, in 2017. Passenger screened and won awards at numerous national and international festivals.
Filmography Passenger, 2017 (short)
Contact ABC FILM - Cem Özay [email protected]
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FRACTURED ÇATLAK
Turkey, 2020, 82’, colour
Director: Fikret Reyhan Producer: Nizam Reyhan Script: Fikret Reyhan DoP: Marton Miklauzic Editing: Fikret Reyhan Fikret Reyhan was born in Hatay. Cast: Hakan Salınmış, Hakan Emre Ünal, Süreyya Kilimci, Görkem Mertsöz He is a Physics Engineer. His first feature film Yellow Heat attended many festivals all around the world Fatih, a migrant worker based in Britain, once borrowed a and had lots of awards like The Best Director at the 39th Moscow lot of money to send to his family in Turkey from Ayhan, a Film Festival, The Best Film at the fellow Turk in the UK. The debt remains unpaid even after 36th Istanbul Film Festival. Frac- Fatih’s return to Turkey. But on a trip back home, Ayhan tured is his second feature film. visits the family with his brother to ask for his money back. The family, who live in the same building on the income from Filmography overlapping business ventures, are caught between their Yellow Heat, 2017 consciences and economic interests. As they seek out ways Contact to repay the debt in full or at least in part, all the family’s FNR Film - Seda Turan buried conflicts slowly bubble to the surface. [email protected]
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FRAGRANCE KOKU
Turkey, 2020, 92’, colour
Director: Barış Gördağ, Yasin Çetin Producer: Hayati Yılmaz, Barış Gördağ, Yasin Çetin Script: Hazel Sevim Ünsal, Özlem Çakan, Barış Gördağ, Yasin Çetin DoP: Kaan Çalışkan Editing: Buğra Dedeoğlu Yasin Çetin was born in Kale, Music: Tamer Çıray Malatya in 1987, Çetin began his Cast: Nergis Öztürk, Yunus Emre Yıldırımer, Güliz Şirinyan, Buğlem Kılıç career as an intern on the TV series, Betrothed In The Cradle. He has worked as an assistant director on Philosophy professor Ilhan thinks that she should have a several series including Forbidden child immediately as she is about to be in menopause. She Love. Fragrance is his debut feature. wants to make a deal with Mustafa, a psychology graduate student for money, and becomes pregnant. She had to Barış Gördağ was born in Adıya- overcome the troubled pregnancy period in a village in man in 1994, Gördağ graduated Malatya, at Mustafa’s family. Ilhan comes across a deaf and from the Department of Radio, TV dumb girl, who has just lost her grandma, in the village. Her and Film at Istanbul University in perfume reminds Zel of her grandma’s daffodil scent that 2018. He then began working in the the little girl attaches Ilhan immediately. Ilhan will learn from film industry. Fragrance is his debut Zel what true and unconditional love means. feature.
Contact Yasin Çetin [email protected]
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GERANIUM SARDUNYA
Turkey, Germany, 2021, 83’, colour
Director: Çağıl Bocut Producer: Aslı Erdem, Çağlar Bocut Script: Çağıl Bocut DoP: Orçun Özkılınç Editing: Mesut Ulutaş Cagil Bocutoglu completed his Music: Ozan Türkyılmaz MA studies on Film Production at Cast: İlayda Elif Elhih, Ali Seçkiner Alıcı, Evren Duyal, Zeyno Eracar, Tansu Biçer London Kingston University after his graduation from Boğaziçi Uni- versity in 2007. While his short film Just before her final exams, 19 years old Defne, has to Arada was selected for Nauossa and various short film festivals. His return to her hometown after her father’s stroke. His experimental work, Yakın Geçmiş, rehabilitation sessions will give the pair a chance to heal made it to numerous new media their fragile relationship. Slowly drawn into a family drama festivals such as Magmart (Italy), in this Mediterranean town, she witnesses her aunt’s suicide Videoart (Greece) and AllArtNow. by unprescribed pills she has provided. After the suicide, a His first documentary focusing on a British musician, Terry St.Clair, was jurisdiction process starts about the pills. Defne’s decisions broadcasted on Britain’s Channel 4. cause a series of problems where the house caregiver Mari becomes the victim. Buried under her guilty conscience, she Filmography slowly finds herself losing her innocence and questioning Brigitte Bardot, 2021 (short) her own notion of justice. Contact Uğur Şahin [email protected]
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IT’S ALL ABOUT PEACE AND HARMONY DİRLİK DÜZENLİK Turkey, 2020, 95’, colour
Director: Nesimi Yetik Producer: Betül Esener Script: Nesimi Yetik DoP: Vedat Özdemir Editing: Betül Esener Nesimi Yetik was born in 1981. In Cast: Dudu Yetik, Asiye Dinçsoy, Betül Esener 2006, he made his short film My Mother Learns Cinema. My Mother Learns Cinema won the DAAD Prize Hicran, Vildan and their mother, Dudu, lead totally different at Berlinale and Best Film Prize in lives under the same roof. Dudu is a diabetic for whom Trieste Film Festival in 2007. The time is necessarily measured out in hours. The disease has film has been shown in many pres- taught her patience. Vildan manages a real estate agency, tigious film festivals such as Karlovy but dreams of being a singer and does, in fact, appear Vary, Sydney. He has completed his on stage. Lack of education has given her an inferiority first feature film Spirit of Dust in complex which she tries to overcome with a bizarre sense of 2014. Spirit of Dust was selected at superiority. And Hicran is a disabled history teacher who just the 21. Golden Boll Film Festival and can’t keep up with the world. She longs to be like, and to won Best Film, Best Actor and Best dress like her older sister. Vildan and Hicran are against their Art Director prizes. mother’s intentions to get married and her various affairs. Filmography The three women’s relationship swings back and forth Spirit of Dust, 2014 between love and loathing. As they go about their lives, My Mother Learns Cinema, 2006 each wants to be the heroine of their own story, Dudu fields (short) a marriage proposal which throws the household upside down. With the prospect of Dudu moving away, everything Contact that has been unspoken until now comes tumbling out. Betül Esener [email protected]
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PENNY BANK KUMBARA
Turkey, 2020, 92’, colour
Director: Ferit Karol Producer: Nefes Polat Script: Ferit Karol DoP: Barış Aygen Editing: Ayris Alptekin Ferit Karol was born in 1988 in Music: Erdem Helvacıoğlu Istanbul. While he was working as Cast: Murat Kılıç, Gülçin Kültür Şahin a director and assistant editor for TV series, commercial and cinema films, Karol has shot several short Orhan is an ordinary family man taking care of his mother films which are screened and competed in many domestic and who went into a coma due to a home accident. He also tries foreign film festivals. He is the to pay off a remaining debt from his friend who has just co-writer of Penny Bank which disappeared. While he is falling into tragicomic situations won the 28. International Ankara during his side jobs as a pollster and taxi driver, he falls out Film Festival Project Development with his family. Ruined his figure also as a father, he turns Award and Antalya Film Forum Feature Film Pitching Award. into a completely different man.
Contact Nefes’ Films - Nefes Polat [email protected]
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RESTLESS FOREVER EBEDİ UYKUSUZ
Turkey, Romania, 2021, 93’, colour
Director: İlke Yeşilay Producer: Zafer Yeşilay, Andu Radu, Cem Celal Bilge Script: İlke Yeşilay DoP: Maxence Lemonnier Editing: Doruk Kaya İlke Yeşilay was born in Istanbul, Cast: İlke Yeşilay, Lila Gürmen, Ali İpin, Can Şıkyıldız, Kübra Yılmaz Ilke Yesilay studied Philosophy, German Language and Cinema-TV at Istanbul University. In 2008, she A mentally troubled young woman, accidentally finds an undertook screenwriting classes old lady dead at home. She envisions the dead body as her at NYU Tisch School of Arts and deceased sister and celebrates reuniting with her. Shortly studied drama and method acting she finds out that her sister has gone to hell, because of at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film committing suicide. She gets devastated and starts making Institute for two years. Her feature good deeds in the name of her sister, to move her to heaven. film project Restless Forever was She visits old people in nursery home, gives presents to sick honored with a Special Mention by children, makes a donation to mosque etc. Meanwhile her the jury at Meetings on The Bridge, hatred towards her father increases and her mother finds received Turkish Ministry of Culture about the dead body. A confrontation takes place in the Development Fund and won the Balkan Fund at the Thessaloniki family and they decide to leave to start a new life with her Film Festival. In 2011 she attended mother. However one thing her father says stops her. to Torino Film Lab.
Contact Greenmoon Film - İlke Yeşilay [email protected]
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THE HERO IN ME İÇİMDEKİ KAHRAMAN
Turkey, 2021, 83’, colour
Director: Sinan Sertel Producer: Halil Kardaş, Turgay Şahin, Muhammet Garip Script: Ümit Cihan Canpolat, Mustafa Çiftci DoP: Mehmet Başbaran Editing: Naim Kanat Sinan Sertel was born in 1981. He Music: Ali Saran graduated from Istanbul Technical Cast: Ahmet Melih Yılmaz, Ulvi Kahyaoğlu, Öykü Naz Altay, Benian Dönmez, University. He worked in various advertising agencies and post-pro- Cüneyt Yalaz duction companies. He worked as a commercial director. He made a TV movie in 2016 after four short films His father convinces his son Kahraman that he is a which were screened at various superhero. Kahraman holds himself responsible for the world festivals. sudden death of his father after an unfortunate accident. He swears he will discover his super powers and bring his father Filmography back. Although many years have passed, Kahraman has not The Story of Adam, 2013 (short) Shadow Play, 2012 (short anima- found his super powers. Thanks to The Mysterious Man he tion) met while he was searching for his superpower, he embarks Private 2011 (short) on a journey as in the Eastern Tales. He pays the price to No Signal, 2010 (short doc) find. He makes sacrifices. While in search, he comes across The Fate, an enemy that no superhero has ever been against Contact before. Sinan Sertel [email protected]
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THE HOOP POTA
Turkey, 2021, 95’, colour
Director: Ahmet Toklu Producer: Halil Kardaş Script: Ahmet Toklu DoP: Ender Ercan Editing: Özgür Kılıç Ahmet Toklu was born in Istanbul in Music: Kenan İşan 1987. He graduated from Çanakkale Cast: Alp Akar, Bahar Hacıbektaşoğlu, Mert Erdoğdu, Egemen Almacı Onsekiz Mart University Cinema-TV department in 2011. Since 2009 he has been working as a director In 1950s, many poor people started to build suburbs and assistant in various television series moved in industrial cities such as Istanbul. Nation, religion and feature films. He directed two and community did not matter. Suburb districts are being short films, Confrontation and destroyed nowadays and new luxury sites are being built Nursery Home, which were awarded instead. People become more individual and do not help and screened in several festivals. each other and solidate. The story of the film is based on He is one of the founders of Film feelings and life style of suburbs. Main character Ahmet is Arası, one of the leading cinema one of the boys, who falls in love with his classmate Kezban magazines of Turkey. and wants to impress her by playing basketball. But there is no basketball hoop in the neighbourhood. He and his Filmography Nursery Home, 2015 (short) friends try to find a way to overcome this barrier. Struggling Confrontation, 2008 (short) together and fighting against problems are the main topic of the film. Contact Film Code - Halil Kardaş [email protected]
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WEASEL GELİNCİK
Turkey, 2020, 78’, colour
Director: Orçun Benli Producer: Orçun Benli, Şükrü Üçpınar, Yusuf Ziya Benli, Bulut Reyhanoğlu, Kaan Yıldırım Script: Orçun Benli, Şükrü Üçpınar DoP: Tufan Kılınç Orçun Benli was born in Istanbul Editing: Fırat Terzioğlu in 1980. He started his career as Music: Sertaç Özgümüş assistant film director in 2002. He has been a director, screenwriter Cast: Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Kaan Yıldırım, Hande Doğandemir, İnan Ulaş Torun and producer since 2011. He took private lessons from Paul Brown, the screenwriter of X files & Star Ayhan is a policeman who has recently left his job. He tries Trek, in New York in 2015, and also to adapt his own life in a forest house while waiting for his production lessons and workshops daughter to come. One day, he shoots a weasel in the forest from Ashley Bank, one of the by mistake. He comes across with a strange man at that executive producers of Spielberg. time. That man goes out hunting close to Ayhan’s house. He has graduated from Academy İstanbul, Radio, TV and Cinema. The incidents meanwhile exceed the logic limits and he becomes absolutely indecisive whether the situation is real Contact or just an imagination, as likely a hallucination. Bulut Reyhanoğlu [email protected]
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WHEN I’M DONE DYING BİR NEFES DAHA
Turkey, Germany, USA, 2020, 91’, colour
Director: Nisan Dağ Producer: Müge Özen, Jessica Caldwell, Jim Wareck, Yağmur Ünal, Kanat Doğramacı, Dorothe Beinemeier Script: Nisan Dağ DoP: John Wakayama Carey Nisan Dag graduated from Colum- Editing: Kristen Swanbeck, Özcan VArdar bia University’s MFA Directing pro- Music: Angus MacRae Cast: Oktay Çubuk, Hayal Köseoğlu, Ushan Çakır, Eren Çiğdem, Müfit Kayacan gram with Fulbright Scholarship in 2013. Dag rose to prominence five years ago with her debut feature Fehmi, a 19-year-old aspiring rapper from a rough Across The Sea, which competed at Warsaw Film Festival and awarded neighborhood of Istanbul is addicted to bonzai, a cheap at multiple festivals, including Jury and deadly drug, jeopardizing his dreams of becoming a and Audience Awards at Slamdance successful rapper. When Fehmi crosses paths with Devin, Film Festival and Best Director a 25-year-old affluent DJ, they fall hard for each other and Award at Milano International Film find the inspiration they were lacking. But the flaming and Festival. After its Turkish theatrical troubled love of this unlikely duo soon becomes toxic. When release, Across The Sea was I’m Done Dying is an emotional roller coaster into Istanbul acquired by Amazon Prime in the youth, steeping into edgy rap composed by one of the most USA. Her second feature When I’m acclaimed beatmakers and rappers in Turkey, Da Poet. Done Dying brought her the award for Best Director at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Filmography Marvellous Fishman, 2014 (short) Across The Sea, 2014
Contact Solis Film - Müge Özen [email protected]
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UPCOMING FILMS TURKISH CINEMA in development
A FEW DAYS BEFORE SUNSET GÜN BATIMINA BİRKAÇ GÜN KALA
Turkey, 2022, colour
Director: Yiğit KÜÇÜKKİBAR Producer: Yeşim KOCAMAN Script: Yiğit KÜÇÜKKİBAR
Yiğit Küçükkibar was born in 1984 Ali is someone who suffered great destructions in his life in Ankara. He began to work pro- when he was only seven years old. His mother’s death fessionally in media sector in 2008, by falling into well and murder of his father by Ihsan had and he worked in many TV pro- inflicted deep wounds on him. Ali goes to kill Ihsan and grams and series. He also directed many music videos. Besides these, Ihsan makes an unusual offer to this unexpected guest. He he designs and directs arthouse asks for seven days. Life, conscience, pressures, friendship, and experimental films. masculinity, and regrets are questioned in these seven days they spend together. Filmography Kaotika, 2015 (short) Silence of Art, 2017 (short) The Day When Heaven Does Not Exist, 2019 (short) Experima, 2020 (short)
Contact Q Media - Yiğit KÜÇÜKKİBAR [email protected]
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A HOPE BİR UMUT
Turkey, Germany, Slovenia, 2021, 92’, colour
Director: Ümit Köreken Producer: Nursen Çetin Köreken, Ümit Köreken Script: Ümit Köreken, Nursen Çetin Köreken
Ümit Köreken was born in Akşehir in 1978. He studied Business Admin- Umut is an actor who wants to act in movies. Asiye, is istration in college. He has been a director at their private theater company. Following writing radio plays, short plays, Umut’s father’s death, his mother marries a man with three stage plays, short stories, memoirs children, and he is sent to live with his uncle in Bursa. He and scenarios. His plays and stories has not had any contact with his mother for twenty years. are published in many different He receives a phone call from his truck driver uncle, who is outlets. His first book is published not able to return to Bursa due to a problem at the border. in 2011. He received Film Production His mother has come to Bursa for her illness, MS. Forced education in 2011. He wrote and to take care of his mother’s treatment, Umut accidentally directed the Turkish German learns about Asiye’s pregnancy. The news causes a massive co-production feature film Blue crisis because Umut does not want to have children. Asiye Bicycle. The film participated in disappears without taking her hand-bag that her phone is more than thirty national and inside. Because of all the feelings Umut accumulated over international film festivals including Berlin Film Festival, and won many the years, he lives a great showdown with his mother. awards including the Best Film and Best Director.
Filmography Muhammed Ali, 2019 (docu drama) Blue Bicycle, Mavi Bisiklet, 2016
Contact Nursen Çetin Köreken [email protected]
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ANONYMOUS LETTER “M.M.” İSİMSİZ MEKTUPLAR “M.M.”
Turkey, 2022, colour
Director: Doğacan Aktaş Producer: Doğacan Aktaş, Bahadır Alptekin Script: Canan Demir Ceylan, Doğacan Aktaş
Doğacan Aktaş was graduated Şahin is the only child of a fragmented family. In a village from Erciyes University, Commu- where they earn their lives by drying hand-knotted carpet, nication Faculty, Radio TV and he lives with his mother Fazilet. In the village they lived, Cinema department. He has been there are no terms such as “time” and “place”. Time loop working as producer, supervisor and director in the projects imple- becomes clear when natural events are qualified. mented as part of this teamwork. He participated in national and international film festivals and until today he has won more than 70 awards and achieved 300 final de- grees for his projects for enhancing the industry of cinema in the bor- ders of Antalya city. Besides, he has been working as a line producer, and directing advertising and music video projects. His book named Your Cinema was published in 2019, which is about the alternative cinema techniques.
Filmography Parmenides Hidden Room, 2020 (short)
Contact AFE - Doğacan Aktaş [email protected]
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BETWEEN TWO DAWNS İKİ ŞAFAK ARASINDA
Turkey, France, Romania, Spain, 2021, 91’, colour
Director: Selman Nacar Producer: Burak Çevik, Diloy Gülün Script: Selman Nacar
Selman Nacar is a filmmaker, with an MFA Film in Directing from After a worker is severely injured in their family business, Columbia University in New York Kadir is forced into making a moral decision, which will City. He gave lectures on fictional have an impact on his dreams, his family and the life of the filmmaking at the same university. injured worker’s wife. He graduated from İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law in 2015, and from Faculty of Film in 2016. He is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent 2019, and the First Films First 2020. Selman is the founder of Kuyu Film, a production company that produced the films The Pillar of Salt and Belonging, both of which have premiered at the Berlin Film Festival Forum section.
Contact Lux Box Films - Hédi Zardi [email protected]
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COLORED PENCILS OF THE HEDGEHOG KİRPİNİN BOYA KALEMLERİ Turkey, 2022, 100’, colour
Director: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu Producer: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu Script: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu
Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu graduated Münasır is an extremely diligent ex-copyreader spending from Akdeniz University Agricul- his retirement years proofreading already published tural Engineering department in newspapers. For his wealthy neighbours, Münasır’s house 1990. After completing his master’s stands as a garbage house. However in the eyes of this degree of Photojournalism in London College of Communication romantic man, it is the archive of his proof-read newspapers in 1998, he studied Contemporary and his magnum opus, the Copyreader’s Manual: Media Practices at University of Encyclopedia of Proofreading. The wealthy residents Westminster in 2002. He worked as are going to redesign their common land lot to be more a newspaper reporter, photogra- beautiful and secure and be accepted for an international pher, director and producer. Snow Pirates is his first feature film. prestige certificate. However, Münasır’s ramshackle house and garden seem like the definite hindrance for fulfilling Filmography their dreams. During this battle for his property, Münasır’s Snow Pirates, 2015 life takes an unexpected turn when Derviş and Lulü take Hackney-London, Peace Week, shelter in his house and complicate things even more. 2005 (documentary)
Contact Kars Film - Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu [email protected]
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EFLATUN
Turkey, 2021, 100’, colour
Director: Cüneyt Karakuş Producer: Cüneyt Karakuş Script: Cüneyt Karakuş
Cüneyt Karakuş studied Cinema at Gazi University. Subsequently, he A blind woman who is a clock repairer that grew up with studied Photography. He started his shadow shows falls in love with the voice of a photographer career in the film sector as an assis- who collects faces and unaware of her own face, she starts tant director. He worked on nearly waiting for the owner of that voice. ten cinema films and dozens of series during his career of 15 years. He worked as an editor in more than ten projects including his own projects. He opened photography exhibitions. He shot his fictional short film The Face in 2014. He won nine national and international awards with the film. He shot the documentary named Doctoral Dissertations in Communication Sci- ence in Turkey with the Witness Eye of Oya Tokgoz, in 2015. He received film production support from the Directorate General of Cinema, Ministry of Culture and Tourism with his last project Eflatun.
Contact Karakuş Film - Cüneyt Karakuş [email protected]
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ELA AND HILMI & ALI ELA İLE HİLMİ VE ALİ
Turkey, 2020, colour
Director: Ziya Demirel Producer: Anna Maria Aslanoğlu, Tanay Abbasoğlu, Öykü Canlı Script: Ziya Demirel, Nazlı Elif Durlu
Ziya Demirel directed his first short Ela and Hilmi & Ali tells the story of different days in the first film while studying Industrial Engi- month of a constantly form changing relationship of a newly neering in Galatasaray University. wed couple: a maths teacher Hilmi, an earthquake survivor He continued his studies for film Ela and a secret rapper, son of the building custodian, Ali . directing and scriptwriting at the Prague Film School. There he shot his well received short film Evicko. The last short film he directed, Tuesday, premiered in the Official Selection of Cannes FF in 2015, and was selected in festivals such as Toronto, Sarajevo, Sundance and Rotterdam. Tuesday was awarded as Best Short Film in festivals such as Les Arcs, Istanbul, Grenoble and with Special Jury Mention in Sarajevo FF. Ela and Hilmi & Ali is his debut feature.
Filmography Tuesday, 2015 (short) Evicko, 2013 (short) Pişmaniye, 2012 (short) The Title of the Film, 2010 (short)
Contact Istos Film - Anna Maria Aslanoğlu [email protected]
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KLONDIKE
Ukraine, Turkey, 2021, 100’, colour
Director: Maryna Er Gorbach Producer: Svyatoslav Bulakovskiy, Mehmet Bahadır Er, Maryna Er Gorbach Script: Maryna Er Gorbach
Maryna ER Gorbach is a Ukrainian film director. After studying in This is the story of a family, which finds itself at the center of Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary an air crash catastrophe MH 17 near the village of Hrabove in Theatre, Cinema and Television the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine on July 17-19, 2014. University in Ukraine, she graduated from Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Poland. Maryna ER Gorbach is a member of Euro- pean Film Academy.
Filmography Omar and Us, 2019 Love Me, 2013 Black Dogs Barking, 2009
Contact Protim V.P / Kedr Film Mehmet Bahadır Er [email protected]
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LIKE CRANES TURNA MİSALİ
Turkey, 2021, 95’, colour
Director: İffet Eren Danışman Boz Producer: Eyüp Boz, İffet Eren Danışman Boz Script: Eyüp Boz, İffet Eren Danışman Boz
İffet Eren Danışman Boz is a grad- Mama Gülsüm, the authoritarian matriarch of the Aksak uate of Cinema-TV Department of Family that belongs to the Sarıkeçili Yoruks has started to Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. prepare for summer migration. However, members of her She has been working in the film family do not share Mama Gülsüm’s ideas about migration. and TV industry as a writer and assistant director. She made four While Gülsüm tries to persuade the people around her, a short films. Since 2011, she has been rumor that the governor’s office will ban migration begins to an active member of various writ- spread. Gülsüm is determined to migrate in spite of all the ing groups for films and TV. Like obstacles she is faced with. Cranes is her first feature film.
Filmography Sunrise, 1997 (short) Devotion, 1996 (short) About Life, 1996 (short) I Love You, 1995 (short)
Contact İffet Eren Danışman Boz [email protected]
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SNOW AND THE BEAR KAR VE AYI
Turkey, Germany, Serbia, 2021, 90’, colour
Director: Selcen Ergun Producer: Nefes Polat, Selcen Ergun Script: Selcen Ergun, Yeşim Aslan
Selcen Ergun is a Berlinale Talents and Nipkow Artist-in-Residence In a small, border town, winter has become seemingly alumna. After studying endless this year. The roads are blocked due to heavy Industrial Design, she obtained her snowfall. The rumour has it that bears have risen early MA in Filmmaking at Istanbul Bilgi from winter-sleep and killed some animals around. Aslı is University. Her short films Confron- a young nurse who has been appointed there recently. A tation and A Sunny Day have been man from the town, Hasan, goes missing the night Aslı has selected by several international an argument with him and she finds herself in the middle of film festivals and awarded prizes. intertwined power relationships, secrets and doubt. Snow And The Bear is her debut feature, a Turkish, German, Serbian co-production supported by Eurimages, developed at Berlinale Talents Script Station, Nipkow Artist-in-Residence and First Films First.
Filmography A Sunny Day, 2012 (short) Confrontation, 2008 (short)
Contact Nefes’ Films - Nefes Polat [email protected]
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THE SNAILS SALYANGOZLAR
Turkey, 2022, 120’, colour
Director: Gülten Taranç Producer: Serpil Altın Script: Gülten Taranç
Gülten Taranç was born in Izmir Narin who has been associating herself with the snails and in 1990. She went to Mexico as an who can not say no to the society’s beauty norms, other’s exchange student with the Rotary expectations of sexual identity and the norms of femininity Exchange Program. She has been wishes to end her life in the midst of demp toughts with her concerning with women’s issues so far in 2010 and has been producing overweight body on her 30th birthday. But she has no idea films about women’s problems that she is on the edge of a night that will motivate her to experienced in Turkey. She gradu- hold onto the life stronger than ever. ated from Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Fine Arts and Marmara University Institute of Fine Arts. She is the director of the Women Directors Festival, which started as a film week in 2018.
Filmography Wish To Wash With Rain, 2016 Solstice, 2013 (short) Aegean Wedding 9/8, 2013 (short doc) Obezons, 2011 (short)
Contact Serpil Altın [email protected]
30 in post-production TURKISH CINEMA
THE TERRITORY BÖLGE
Turkey, 2021, 80’, colour
Director: Mesut Keklik Producer: Burak Yavuz, Mesut Keklik Script: Mesut Keklik DoP: Mesut Keklik Editing: Burak Yavuz, Mesut Keklik Mesut Keklik was born in Istanbul in Cast: Baran Yağmur, Ahmet Yağmur, Hacer Çimen 1991. He completed his undergradu- ate education at Akdeniz University Radio TV and Cinema department. The film is handling a group of young people whose socio- With the end of his school life in economic conditions are quite insufficient and their lives 2014, he returned to Istanbul and which are stuck between drugs, family, gang and the state in worked in national and international an outskirts of Istanbul, through the character of Ali. film projects.
Contact Burak Yavuz [email protected]
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ZUHAL
Turkey, Germany, 2020, colour
Director: Nazlı Elif Durlu Producer: Anna Maria Aslanoğlu, Tanay Abbasoğlu, Jamila Wenske, Tolga Karaçelik, Öykü Canlı Script: Nazlı Elif Durlu, Ziya Demirel Nazlı Elif Durlu studied Film and TV in the Netherlands. She has Zuhal’s workaholic daily routine is disturbed by a cat’s written and directed three short meow she keeps hearing in her flat. In order to find the cat films that were screened at interna- tional film festivals such as Uppsala, she starts an investigation in the building, but soon she Hamptons and Sao Paolo. She realizes that nobody else seems to hear this sound. As she worked as one of the screenwrit- keeps searching, people around her, and even herself, start ers of the omnibus called Do Not doubting her mental health. Forget Me Istanbul, in which Hany Abu-Assad directed the story she wrote. She has been working as a screenwriter for TV series and feature films for productions.
Contact Istos Film - Anna Maria Aslanoğlu [email protected]
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FEATURE FILMS
4 BROTHER’S KEEPER, Ferit Karahan
5 DIALOGUE, Ali Tansu Turhan
6 FLASHDRIVE, Derviş Zaim INDEX 7 FORGIVENESS, Cem Özay
8 FRACTURED, Fikret Reyhan
9 FRAGRANCE, Barış Gördağ, Yasin Çetin
10 GERANIUM, Çağıl Bocut
11 IT’S ALL ABOUT PEACE AND HARMONY, Nesimi Yetik
12 PENNY BANK, Ferit Karol
13 RESTLESS FOREVER, İlke Yeşilay
14 THE HERO IN ME, Sinan Sertel
15 THE HOOP, Ahmet Toklu
16 WEASEL, Orçun Benli
17 WHEN I’M DONE DYING, Nisan Dağ
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UPCOMING FILMS
20 A FEW DAYS BEFORE SUNSET, Yiğit Küçükkibar
21 A HOPE, Ümit Köreken INDEX 22 ANONYMOUS LETTER “M.M.”, Doğacan Aktaş
23 BETWEEN TWO DAWNS, Selman Nacar
24 COLORED PENCILS OF THE HEDGEHOG, Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu
25 EFLATUN, Cüneyt Karakuş
26 ELA AND HILMI & ALI, Ziya Demirel
27 KLONDIKE, Maryna Er Gorbach
28 LIKE CRANES, İffet Eren Danışman Boz
29 SNOW AND THE BEAR, Selcen Ergun
30 THE SNAILS, Gülten Taranç
31 THE TERRITORY, Mesut Keklik
32 ZUHAL, Nazlı Elif Durlu
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