NATIONAL GOLDEN TULIP COMPETITION This section showcases recent film productions from Turkey in the Golden Tulip National Competition[1], New Turkish Cinema, National Documentary Competition, Special Screenings, National Short Film Competition subsections. The National Competition jury will evaluate films vying for the Golden Tulip Best Film, Golden Tulip Best Director, Special Prize of the Jury in memory of Onat Kutlar, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Music awards. The Best Debut Film award will be given in memory of Seyfi Teoman. The festival awards Documentaries and Short Films as well.
Films
ALL FELICITIES ARE POSSIBLE | BÜTÜN SAADETLER MÜMKÜNDÜR | Director: Selman Kılıçaslan / Screenplay: Selman Kılıçaslan / DOP: İlker Berke / Editing: Ayhan Ergürsel, Abdulgafur Şahin / Original Music: Ömer Sinan Kılıçaslan, Ali Moğul / Cast: Kemal Uçar, Arif Erkin, Ruhi Sarı, Nilay Erdönmez / Producer: Selman Kılıçaslan, Zülfikar Kürüm / Production Co.: Aşina Sanat Ltd. Şti. / World Sales: Aşina Sanat Ltd. Şti. / Turkey / 2016 / DCP / Colour / 120´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Studying engineering and dreaming to go abroad with the Erasmus project to leave behind his small town, Ali is going through a period of self-exploration, asking questions about life. His quiet life is stirred up upon his crush to Gülce, a singer at a folk music cafe. Gülce is a nursing student and to get by, she works as a caregiver to a lonely, elder man in one of the older neighbourhoods of the town. As Ali gets to know Gülce, he becomes involved in the old man’s story too. Ali goes on his search on the threshold of this encounter, asking a question to which he wouldn’t find an answer to: is any happiness possible?
SOMETHING USEFUL | İŞE YARAR BİR ŞEY | Director: Pelin Esmer / Screenplay: Pelin Esmer, Barış Bıçakçı / DOP: Gökhan Tiryaki / Editing: Pelin Esmer, Evren Luş / Cast: Başak Köklükaya, Öykü Karayel, Yiğit Özşener / Producer: Pelin Esmer, Marsel Kalvo / Co-Producers: François D’Artemare, Frans Van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld, Mehmet Aktaş / Production Co.: Sinefilm, Mars Prodüksiyon / World Sales: Sinefilm / Turkey / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 104´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Why would someone like Leyla go to a high school reunion dinner? And take an overnight train to get there. After all, she hasn’t been to a single one for the last 25 years... What is Canan, a student nurse, doing on the train? Reluctantly going to an interview for a nursing job when she would like to be an actress instead. And Yavuz? He spends all day lying by the window watching the passing hawkers, horse carriages, and people. He is waiting for Canan, or maybe Leyla, or maybe a murderer and a poet who meet on a train one night.
INFLAME | KAYGI | Director: Ceylan Özgün Özçelik / Screenplay: Ceylan Özgün Özçelik / DOP: Radek Ladczuk / Editing: Ahmet Can Çakırca / Original Music: Ekin Fil / Cast: Algı Eke, Özgür Çevik / Producer: Adnan M. Şapçı, Emre Oskay, Sadık Ekinci / Co-Producers: Armağan Lale, Ceylan Özgün Özçelik / Production Co.: Istanbul Film Production (IFP) / World Sales: m-appeal / Turkey / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 94´ / Turkish; English s.t.
2017 SXSW LUNA Gamechanger Award
A news channel employee, Hasret, has been seeing the same nightmare for quite some time. Through recurring nightmares, a question creeps into her mind: Is it possible that her parents were not killed in a traffic accident twenty years ago, but died in some other, horrific way. Inflame is a psychological thriller, based on collective memory and its sphere of influence, telling its tale through a nightmare. Inflame tracks a woman who lives in an uncanny country, where reality and hallucinations bounce off of each other, a woman who seeks her past in her own memory.
THE BANK OF BROKEN HEARTS | KIRIK KALPLER BANKASI | Director: Onur Ünlü / Screenplay: Onur Ünlü / Original Music: Korhan Futacı, Yasemin Mori / DOP: Vedat Özdemir / Editing: Ahmet Can Çakırca / Original Music: Korhan Futacı / Cast: Haluk Bilginer, Serkan Keskin, Hazal Kaya, Taner Ölmez, Tansu Biçer, Osman Sonant, Fatih Artman, Öner Erkan, Kadir Çermik, Metin Akdülger, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Şenay Gürler, Nazan Kesal / Producer: Kerem Çatay / Production Co.: Ay Yapım / World Sales: Ay Yapım / Turkey / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 120´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Osman and Enis are two young men who play in an amateur football team in Galata, one of Istanbul’s oldest districts. Their actual aim is both to rob a bank in their neighbourhood, and to prevent the team from being dropped from the league by winning the last game. The game is played, but remains unfinished because of a huge fight that takes place. During this fight, Osman falls in love with Aslım, who is being kept by Rüstem Tor, the head of the opposing team, known for his involvement in the organ trade. Based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, The Bank of Broken Hearts is the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.
INSIDE | MAHALLE | Director: Buğra Gülsoy, Serhat Teoman / Screenplay: Buğra Gülsoy, Serhat Teoman, Emre Erkan / DOP: Serkan Güler / Editing: Ahmet Can Çakırca / Original Music: Toygar Işıklı / Cast: Buğra Gülsoy, Serhat Teoman, Emre Erkan, Selahattin Töz, Hazar Ergüçlü, Selen Öztürk, Gökşen Ateş, Gökhan Soylu / Producer: Emre Erkan, Mert Öner / Production Co.: Get Yapım / World Sales: Get Yapım / Turkey / 2016 / DCP / Colour / 81´ / Turkish; English s.t.
A neighbourhood in Istanbul where the lower middle-class is confined, making its own laws... All married with children, Ömer, Sabri and Kenan are three close friends born and raised here... And then, there is Tahsin, the respected big brother of them all, self-proclaimed lawmaker and enforcer of the neighbourhood... Their peace is shattered when a fact is unearthed.
THE SEAGULL | MARTI | Director: Erkan Tunç / Screenplay: Erkan Tunç / DOP: Deniz Eyüboğlu Aydın / Editing: Adil Yanık / Original Music: Ekin Fil / Cast: Onur Buldu, Sahra Şaş, Öner Erkan, İrem Sak / Producer: Birol Güven / Production Co.: Mint Prodüksiyon / World Sales: Mint Prodüksiyon / Turkey / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 137´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Our story takes place at a small chicken farm in İzmir, Torbalı, enfolded between mountains. The boring lives of the farm’s caretaker Yakup and his younger wife Mediha will intersect with the seemingly fun lives of the new farmhand Rıza and his wife Nurgül in this small and claustrophobic setting, and will allow us to see the characters’ inner worlds and cause them to face themselves.
BLUE SILENCE | MAVİ SESSİZLİK | Director: Bülent Öztürk / Screenplay: Bülent Öztürk / DOP: A.Emre Tanyıldız / Editing: David Verdurme / Original Music: Michelino Bisceglia / Cast: Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı, Roda Canıoğlu, Korkmaz Arslan / Producer: Tomas Leyers / Co-Producer: Michael Goldberg, Boris Van Gils, Bülent Öztürk / Production Co.: Minds Meet, Bantof Film / World Sales: Minds Meet / Turkey, Belgium / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 93´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Hakan is a former member of the armed forces. Through the attentive care of nurse Ayla at the military hospital he is treated, he makes progress in exorcising his demons. After a long stay, he is discharged, rewarded by a medal of honour and some cash. Upon his return home, he finds out that his wife and daughter have abandoned him. A meeting with his daughter, Melis, forces Hakan to confront his past. Lonely, he beats the pavements of Istanbul. The people he sees on the streets and an unexpected visit from Ayla will drive Hakan to question his past deeds over and over again.
MURTAZA | MURTAZA | Director: Özgür Sevimli / Screenplay: Özgür Sevimli / DOP: Ahmet Bayer / Editing: Doruk Kaya / Original Music: Okan Kaya / Cast: Cezmi Baskın, Meral Çetinkaya, Mine Teber, İncinur Daşdemir, Bülent Düzgünoğlu, Kadir Çermik / Producer: Sevil Demirci / Production Co.: Yeni Sinemacılık / World Sales: Yeni Sinemacılık / Turkey / 2016 / DCP / Colour / 93´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Sabure and Murtaza live in a village up in the mountains of Malatya. Sabure has lost her vision years ago, Murtaza takes care of her. Their children live in Istanbul. One day Murtaza calls home from the grocer in town and hears that his daughter is ill. He leaves for Istanbul on his own but does not inform Sabure. Their daughter dies that day. Murtaza maintains the lies and keeps the death from her too. Sabure becomes increasingly withdrawn, and gradually, her agony becomes tangible. "Who finds himself in more difficult situation: the liar or the one who is lied to? Does telling lies always make our life easier? Our conception of truth can always be manipulated. But how determined and willing are we to reach the truth? In fact, each one of us is a Pinocchio."
YELLOW HEAT | SARI SICAK | Director: Fikret Reyhan / Screenplay: Fikret Reyhan / DOP: Marton Miklauzic / Editing: Ömer Günüvar, Fikret Reyhan / Cast: Aytaç Uşun, Mehmet Özgür, Gökhan Şimşek, Cem Zeynel Kılıç, Tarık Köksal, Akan Atakan, Seher Çuhadar / Producer: Nizamettin Reyhan, Nuriye Bilici / Production Co.: FNR Film, Verba Film / World Sales: FNR Film / Turkey / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 85´ / Turkish; English s.t.
In a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through traditional farming. Their son, Ibrahim, determined to find his own way, dreams of a different future for himself. Ibrahim is surrounded by not only his family’s feudal circumstances but also the merciless system of the region. However, he finds that it is not so easy to turn a dream into reality. His actions will have many unexpected consequences for both himself and for his family. Yellow Heat aims to tell the story of people who are affected by the change of production relations and in parallel by the change of the capital.
THE STONE | TAŞ | Director: Orhan Eskiköy / Screenplay: Orhan Eskiköy / DOP: Türksoy Gölebeyi / Editing: Selda Taşkın / Cast: Muhammet Uzuner, Jale Arıkan, Ahmet Varlı, Beste Kökdemir / Producer: Orhan Eskiköy / Production Co.: Perişan Film / World Sales: Perişan Film / Turkey / 2017 / DCP / B&W / 90´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Having lost certain mental abilities due to a childhood accident, Selim is running away from a man called Officer, who is trying to take him back to the state dorm that he is staying at. However, he collapses at someone’s doorstep. Believing that Selim is their long-lost son Hasan, Emete takes him in and succeeds to convince her husband and daughter likewise. Selim introduces himself as Selim, but Emete is certain that he is her son, citing the speech disorder and the scars on his back as proof. Selim wants to leave the village, but Officer is still following him and trying to incite the villagers against him.
CLAIR OBSCUR | TEREDDÜT | Director: Yeşim Ustaoğlu / Screenplay: Yeşim Ustaoğlu / DOP: Michael Hammon / Editing: Agniezcka Glinska / Original Music: Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewic / Cast: Ecem Uzun, Funda Eryiğit, Mehmet Kurtuluş, Okan Yalabık / Producer: Yeşim Ustaoğlu / Co-Producers: Titus Kreyenberg, Marianne Slot, Klaudia Smieja / Production Co.: Ustaoğlu Film Yapım / World Sales: Beta Cinema / Turkey, Germany, France, Poland / 2016 / DCP / Colour / 104´ / Turkish; English s.t.
2017 Sofia Jury Special Mention
2016 Antalya (International) Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (E. Uzun)
Clair-obscur follows the interchange between two young women from very different socio-economic backgrounds yet who share very similar problems as their fates intersect. Şehnaz is a psychiatrist in her early 30s, who has been assigned to a public hospital in a small, remote seaside town to complete her mandatory 2-year duty. Married off to a distant relative when she was 16 and brought to this town, Elmas’ life is wrought with overwhelming chores. On the morning of a stormy night, their lives intersect. Their encounter will lead both women to undertake an intense process of self-questioning and come to terms with their hidden problems. Though they have very different experiences, there is a striking similarity between their respective nightmares which determine the course of their lives.
ZER | ZER | Director: Kazım Öz / Screenplay: Kazım Öz / DOP: Feza Çaldıran, Eyüp Boz, Orçun Kılınç / Original Music: Mustafa Biber / Editing: Kazım Öz, Thomas Balkenhol / Cast: Nik Xhelilaj, Güler Ökten, Levent Özdilek, Füsun Demirel, Tomris İncer, Haleigh Ciel, Teresa Anne Volgenau, Ahmet Aslan / Producers: Kazım Öz, Meral Balık, Turan Tokel / Co-Producers: Zülfiye Akkulak, Adnan Hilton Pehlivan, İsmail Öz / Production Co.: Köz Film – Newa Film / World Sales: Köz Film / Turkey, Germany / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 110' / Turkish, English, Kurdish; English s.t.
Zer tells the story of Jan who is pursuing the song sung to him by his grandmother Zarife–a woman who had gone through the agonies in Dersim in 1938. Zarife had concealed neither her identity, her past, nor herself in this song. When she is brought to New York for her cancer treatment, Jan and his grandmother get closer together which instigates a transformation in Jan’s life. Jan decides to trace the song that his grandmother had sung to him and sets out to Dersim from New York, but will he ever reach himself there?
[1] NATIONAL GOLDEN TULIP COMPETITION JURY
DURUL TAYLAN & YAĞMUR TAYLAN (Jury co-heads)
They are Turkish film and TV directors. Having studied Industrial Engineering and Medicine and Psychiatry respectively, the brothers started their work behind the camera with their first TV project Sır Dosyası in 1997. They have directed several TV series including Cinler ve Periler, Baba, hit comedy show Beşik Kertmesi, the police drama, Alacakaranlık, and the multi-awarded hit comedy series Yabancı Damat filmed in Greece and Turkey, which lasted 106 episodes. Muhteşem Yüzyıl / Magnificent Century, the Turkish prime-time historical TV drama, is reported to have an international audience of 200 million. Their first feature film was the horror-teen comedy Okul / The School (2003), followed by Küçük Kıyamet / The Little Apocalypse (2006) an award-winning psychological horror film. Their third feature Vavien (2010) won the Best Picture and FIPRESCI awards at Istanbul Film Festival. They have also directed over 50 commercials. They currently reside in Los Angeles and are developing projects for Turkey-Middle East territories as well as for the United States.
NEJAT İŞLER
Born in 1972 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory Department of Stage Arts in 1995. Following Gurur, the first TV series he took a role in 1994, he played in popular TV series such as Deli Yürek, Şehnaz Tango, Gülbeyaz, Aliye, Keşanlı Ali Destanı. He acted in several feature films starting with Eylül Fırtınası / After the Fall including Mustafa Hakkında Her Şey, Anlat Istanbul. He won Best Actor awards with Egg in 2008 at the 40 SIYAD Turkish Cinema Awards and the 13 th th Turkey-Germany Film Festival. Feature films he acted in include İkimizin Yerine, Kış Uykusu / Winter Sleep, Behzat Ç–Ankara Yanıyor, 11’e 10 Kala / 10 to 11.
SEMA KAYGUSUZ
She is a novelist, writer of short stories and stage plays. She first took interest in radio plays, choreography, and theatre; wrote short literary stories. Her first short story collection received the Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth Award (1995). Her story book, Sandık Lekesi (2000) received the Cevdet Kudret Literature Prize. Praised by critics and readers alike, her first novel Yere Düşen Dualar (2006) brought her several awards in foreign language versions as well as the Balkanika Literary Award. She co-wrote the script of Yeşim Ustaoğlu’s film, Pandora’s Box (2008) with the director. The film received the Best Film Award at San Sebastian International Film Festival. She recieved the DAAD Berlin-Artists-InResidence scholarship and lived in Berlin in 2010. In 2016, her latest novel Barbarın Kahkahası (2015) received the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize, while she received the Coburg-Rückert Prize for her works translated into German.
EMRE ERKMEN
Born in Istanbul. He graduated from the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) Department of Cinematography. He was Director of Photography for films such as Aslı Özge’s Ansızın / All of a Sudden, Hayatboyu / Lifelong, and Köprüdekiler / Men on the Bridge, Hany Abu Assad and Eric Nazarian’s Unutma Beni İstanbul / Do Not Forget Me Istanbul, Zeki Demirkubuz’ Kıskanmak / Envy, and Kutluğ Ataman’s 2 Genç Kız / Two Girls–which premiered at prestigious international festivals and brought him Best Cinematographer awards at Istanbul, Adana and Antalya film festivals. He also worked as director of photography for the TV films directed by Christine Hartmann, Peter Keglevic, and Marc Brummund in Germany, and the video works of artists such as John Malkovich, Dani Gal, and Sophie Tottie which are exhibited at museums, biennials and galleries. He lives in Berlin and Istanbul.
ÇİÇEK KAHRAMAN
She studied Sociology at Boğaziçi University and completed her graduate studies at Boston University on Film and TV. She has been working as a professional film editor for over ten years, and she is teaching film classes at Kadir Has University. She won awards for Best Editing at Ankara, Adana, and Antalya film festivals with The Little Apocalypse, Ara, The Voice, and Blue Wave. Among other features she edited are Wrong Rosary (Best Film, Rotterdam Film Festival, 2009) and Our Grand Despair which was in competition in Berlinale. She also makes video art, and had her first exhibition titles Everbody Hear Me Out at Salt Gallery in 2015. In 2016, she participated in the joint exhibition “The Game Settled into a Cagey Midfield Match” with her video performance called 1stepforward2stepsback. She runs a film company called UKA Film which she co-founded with Can Kılcıoğlu.
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