Moscow Winner | The Particle (Zerre) by Erdem Tepegöz

ERDEM TEPEGÖZ Golden George winner Erdem Tepegöz[1] for the social drama The Particle (Zerre) Mavi Boncuk |

Turkish director Erdem Tepegöz’s social drama The Particle (Zerre) has won the Golden George for Best Film at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF). The film’s lead actress, Jale Arikan, also picked up the Best Actress Silver George for her performance as Zeynep, trying to make ends meet in the dusty and dim atmosphere of abandoned apartments evacuated for clearance.

 The International Jury under the presidency of Iranian film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf awarded the Silver George for Best Director to South Korea’s Jung Young-Heon for Lebanon Emotion (Le-Ba-Non Kam-Jeong).

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Universe including past and future at the same time contains countless dust particles inside. Dust oscillating in the air like small, ordinary and temporary things, takes a huge part in our lives while taking a very tiny place in the universe as if it’s worthless. Only one of these crowded particles; what is its source, where does it come from, where shall it disappear, does it know about other particles, what is its aim?


Production KULE FILM; Producer Kağan DALDAL ;Screenplay & Director Erdem TEPEGÖZ ;Director of Photography Marton MIKLAUZIC; Art Director Tora AGHABAYOVA; Sound Murat ŞENÜRKMEZ; Editing Mesut ULUTAŞ; Editing Supervisor Arzu VOLKAN ;Music Emrah AĞDAN 

CAST: Jale ARIKAN; Rüçhan ÇALIŞKUR; Özay FECHT; Dilay DEMİROK; Remzi PAMUKÇU; Ergün KUYUCU; Mesude TÜRKMEN; Sencar SAĞDIÇ; Cemal BAYKAL; Suat Oktay ŞENOCAK; Tevfik Erman KUTLU; Ali BEYAT 

[1] BIOGRAPHY OF ERDEM TEPEGOZ He was born in 1982. Graduating from Dokuz Eylül University, he received cinema education as director in the Prague Film School in Czech Republic. He worked as a special assistant for the Spanish Director Diago Fandos and Ali Özgentürk. He holds numerous national and international awards as well as festival experience. In addition to several international movie projects, he served as co-director in important motion pictures. He directed commercial films as well as 3 award-winning short films. He currently resides in Istanbul. Zerre is his first feature-length movie … Fimography Kukla Adam (Short Film-2008) Kafes (Short Film-2008) Değneksiz Sahne Işıkları (Documantery-2007)