AMP Interviews: Reha Erdem at Thessaloniki Film Festival
Cast & Crew
Screenwriter: Reha Erden
Producer: Ali Ömer Atay, Kaan Mestut, Serra Ciliv
Editor: Reha Erdem
DOP: Florent Herry
Music: Alican Çamcı
Cast: Deniz İlhan, Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Bülent Emin Yarar, Izzy, Incinur Daşdemir, Nihal Yalçın, Serkan Keskin, Nur Fettahoğlu, Gizem Katmer, Ayşegül Kopartan
Contact:
Atlantik Film (Production Company)
info@atlantikfilm.com
Suna is a teenage athlete who lives with her mother in a mountain village much like the world at large: here, things are run by older men who know it all, environmental destruction looms, and greed beats in most hearts. Suna’s uncle, the village headman, is on the lookout for ways to close his debt. His wife, whom he married by force, keeps eloping only to be found on the outskirts of the village each time. Twelve-year-old Filiz shoots YouTube videos, and feels that “nothing happens in this village!”. But things happen. An imam arrives and he is strange: he forgets the calls to prayer and spends his nights on the mountain. A dead girl is found in the river; conflict around the stone quarry escalates; treasure hunters arrive, and soon there is a dead body with his mouth filled with stones. Suna is the only one with the innocence and the courage to ask: “Who is to tell you what is good? Who is to tell you your path?”.
Director: Reha Erdem
Director, screenwriter and editor born in Turkey in 1960. He has been called one of the most characteristic filmmakers of our time by Variety magazine. After studying history, he left in 1983 to study film studies at the University of Paris. His directorial debut, in 1989, was “Oh Moon”. All of his films have won critical acclaim and many awards at festivals including Locarno, Toronto and Berlin. His “Big Big World” received the Orizzonti Special Jury Prize in Venice in 2017. “Neandria” is his latest film.
Director's filmography
2023 Neandria
2021 Seni Buldum Ya
2016 Koca Dünya / Big Big World
2013 Şarkı Söyleyen Kadınlar / Singing Woman
2013 Deniz Hasgüler in Jîn / Jîn
2010 Kosmos / Cosmos
2008 Hayat Var / My Only Sunshine
2006 Ekimde hiçbir kere / Anytime in October (kr.m./short)
2006 Bes Vakit / Times and Winds
2004 Korkuyorum Anne / Mommy, I’m Scared
1999 Kaç Para Kaç / Run for Money
1995 Deniz türküsü / Song of the Sea (kr.m./short)
1989 A Ay / Oh Moon
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