Oğlak Yayınları II honey bal turkey, germany 2010, 35mm, 103’, colour director Semih Kaplanoğlu script Semih Kaplanoğlu, Orçun Koksal cinematography Barış Özbiçer editing Ayhan Ergürsel, Semih Kaplanoğlu, S. Hande Güneri cast Bora Altaş, Erdal Beşikçioğlu, Tülin Özen production Semih Kaplanoğlu (Kaplan Film Production), Johannes Rexin, Bettina Brokemper (Heimatfilm) distribution Michael Weber, The Match Factory, Balthasarstr. 79-81 50670 Cologne Germany T +49 221 539 709-0 [email protected] www.the-match-factory.com Yusuf has started primary school and is learning how to read and write. His father, Yakup, works far in the depths of a frightening forest. He is a honey-gatherer who hangs his hand-made beehives in the upper branches of tall trees. The forest is a place of mystery for Yusuf. One morning Yusuf describes the dream he had that night to his father. This dream is to be an ever-lasting secret between the father and the son. On that same day, as Yusuf struggles to read before his entire classmates the text the teacher has given him, he begins suddenly to stutter and is ridiculed by his classmates. Yakup goes to a distant forest, looking for the Caucasian bees which seem to be mysteriously disappearing. His father gone, Yusuf slips into silence. Yusuf’s mother Zehra, who works in the tea fields, is saddened to see her son in this state. No matter how hard she tries, she cannot get her son to speak. Semih Kaplanoğlu (1963) graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, with a degree in film and television in 1984. After his graduation he worked as an assistant cameraman for several award-winning films. He wrote and directed the TV series Şehnaz Tango, which ran for 52 episodes on two national channels. As well as directing, Kaplanoğlu has published numerous articles on contemporary art and cinema. Between 1996-2000 he wrote a column entitled ‘Encounters’ for the national daily Radikal. filmography 2000 Herkes Kendi Evinde Away From Home 2004 Meleğin Düşüşü Angel’s Fall 2007 Yumurta Egg 2008 Süt Milk 2010 Bal Honey 1 kosmos turkey 2009, 35mm, 122’, colour director Reha Erdem script Reha Erdem cinematography Florent Herry editing Reha Erdem cast Sermet Yeşil, Türkü Turan, Hakan Altuntaş, Sabahat Doğanyılmaz, Korel Kubilay, Akın Anlı production-distribution Atlantik Film, Üst Zeren Sok. No:2, Levent 34330 Istanbul T +90 212 278 3611 [email protected] www.atlantikfilm.com awards Best Film, Best Director, Best Photography, Special Jury Prize Antalya Kosmos is a thief who works miracles. He arrives from the wilds in a timeless border town as though a fugitive, weeping. No sooner is he there, he rescues a small boy from drowning in the river, and is recognised as a man of miracles. Kosmos proves to be a rather extraordinary person. He never seems to eat or sleep. His single form of nourishment is sugar, which he consumes by the fistful. One of his more striking skills is the ability to scale the tallest trees with uncommon agility. He also declares his wish in life with disarming honesty, which startles the townspeople: he is looking for love. Soon Kosmos and Neptün, the teenaged sister of the rescued boy, grow closer in the weirdest of ways: by imitating the screech of birds in trees and on rooftops. Reha Erdem (Istanbul, 1960) graduated in film studies from Paris 8 University. He earned an MA in plastic arts at the same university. He shot his first feature-length film Oh Moon in 1989 as a French-Turkish co-production. To date, he has written all of his films except for Mommy I’m Scared, where he was one of the co-writers. He also has directed short films and the stage play, Maids (Les Bonnes) by Jean Genet. filmography 1989 A Ay Oh Moon 1995 Deniz Türküsü Song of the Sea (short) 1999 Kaç Para Kaç Run for Money 2004 Korkuyorum Anne Mommy, I’m Scared 2006 Ekim’de Hiçbir Kere Anytime in October (short) 2006 Beş Vakit Times and Winds 2008 Hayat Var My Only Sunshine 2009 Kosmos 2 haze pus turkey, greece 2009, 35mm, 109’, colour director Tayfun Pirselimoğlu script Tayfun Pirselimoğlu cinematography Ercan Özkan editing Erdinç Özyurt cast Ruhi Sarı, Nurcan Ülger, Mehmet Avcı production Zuzi Film (Turkey) Graal S.A. (Greece) distribution Zuzi Film, Cihannüma Mah. Abbasağa Sok. No: 9 D:1 Beşiktaş Istanbul T +90 212 260 9232 F +90 212 260 9233 [email protected] | www.zuzifilm.com Reşat a young man working in illegal dvd business has an antisocial personality causing problems in his relations. He lives in a miserable apartment with his mother at the outskirts of the town and has an obsessive interest for a young girl living at the same building he encounters at the stairs occasionally. One of his hidden obsessions is to have a motorbike. He also steals some small objects as an habit in his dull life. One day he steals a package left by Celal, a friend of his boss. At the same day Celal, an outlaw, is killed by his enemies. Reşat is totally amazed when he opens the package and finds a photo of a woman with an address and a pistol. Tayfun Pirselimoğlu (Trabzon, 1959) studied painting and engraving at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna after graduating from Middle East Technical University. He has held exhibitions in various cities around the world. He taught painting, scriptwriting and directing at Akademie Genius, an independent art initiative. As a writer, he has written for numerous art magazines and published four novels and a book of short stories. He has written short and long feature film scripts and shot his first short film My Uncle in 1999. He won several national and international awards with his features Innowhereland, and Rıza. filmography 1999 Dayım My Uncle (short) 2002 Il Silenzio è d’Oro Silent is Golden (short) 2002 Hiçbiryerde Innowhereland 2007 Rıza 2009 Pus Haze 3 7 courtyards 7 avlu turkey 2009, 35mm, 101’, colour director Semir Aslanyürek script Semir Aslanyürek cinematography Yusuf Aslanyürek editing Ramazan Yüksel music Samir Kwefati cast Evmorfia Anastasiou, Labina Mitevska, Varlam Nikoladze, Muhammed Cangören, Nursel Köse, Serra Yılmaz production-distribution Yusuf Aslanyürek, Aslanyürek Film, Nüzhet Efendi Sok. 47/5 Rasimpaşa Mah. Kadıköy Istanbul T +90 532 570 1721 [email protected] | www.aslanyurek.net In Antioch, courtyards are separated from the streets by high walls and their doors are always closed. In Antioch, every courtyard is a world in and of its own. Among its inhabitants are Turks, Arabs, Christians, Jews, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Alawites, Sunni Muslims... And a different language is spoken in every courtyard. Eleni is a beautiful yet rather unkempt 27 year-old woman of Greek origin. She has three daughters aged nine, seven and five. Since her husband’s death she has been alienated by her neighbours. Men have stopped speaking to her to avoid gossip, while women do the same to keep her away from their husbands. Imprisoned in her courtyard with her daughters, Eleni contrives excuses to go to her neighbours every evening for some conversation… Semir Aslanyürek (Antakya, 1956) studied medicine at Damascus University until 1978. He then transferred to the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) Faculty of Film Directing, where he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the department of acting, cinema and TV film between 1980-1986. In 1990, he started his academic career as a lecturer at the Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts at the Department of Cinema & TV. He began shooting his debut feature Wagon in 1993, but the film’s post-production remained incomplete. He has written ten feature film screenplays, two of which are literary adaptations. filmography 1993 Vagon Wagon 2001 Şellale The Waterfall 2006 Eve Giden Yol The Road Home 2009 7 Avlu 7 Courtyards 4 7 husbands for hurmuz 7 kocalı hürmüz turkey 2009, 35mm, 122’, colour director Ezel Akay script Gürsel Korat cinematography Hayk Kirakosyan editing Mustafa Preşeva music Ender Akay, Sunay Özgür cast Nurgül Yeşilçay, Gülse Birsel, Haluk Bilginer, Mehmet Ali Alabora, Erkan Can, Öner Erkan production 5. Boyut Stüdyoları, Muhteşem Film distribution Sami Dündar, 5. Boyut Stüdyoları, Maslak Mah. AOS 52. Sok. No:12/C Istanbul T +90 212 346 4343 [email protected] | www.5boyut.com A Brechtian look at an Ottoman Burlesque with songs and music, 7 Husbands for Hurmuz tells the story of an alluring woman, Hurmuz who lives in Taşkasap, Istanbul in 1900. She is unofficially married to six guys of different occupations, each of whom she hosts on different days of the week. While refusing them nuptial bliss in her bed, she lures them into giving her expensive presents in order to live on easy terms. One day, Hurmuz happens to see the local doctor Hüsrev while at the barbershop of one of her husbands. She then feigns illness and asks for the doctor. When the doctor falls in love with her too, he requisitions her best friend and matchmaker Safinaz to ask for Hurmuz’s hand. On a night when all the husbands will get together by chance, Hurmuz and her confidante Safinaz find themselves in trouble. Ezel Akay (1961) studied engineering at Bosphorus University and theatre arts at Villanova University, Philadelphia. He was part of many theatre productions as an actor and director before entering the film production business. As a founding partner of IFR-Istisnai Films (1990), he directed more than 500 commercials. With IFR, he produced Derviş Zaim’s feature film debut Somersault in a Coffin and Yeşim Ustaoğlu’s Journey to the Sun, both of which won many awards at international festivals. He is currently preparing for his next feature as director / producer.