Mavi Boncuk | Berlinale 2019 | Aidiyet / Belonging |World premiere
by Burak Çevik with Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Eylül Su Sapan Turkey / Canada / France 2019 Turkish, Subtitles: English 72’ Colour
Aidiyet is a contemporary thriller that maps out a criminal case, though it’s the very opposite of a genre film. In a voice-over delivered in the sober tone of a confession, a man reconstructs the murder of his future mother-in-law. Acting on the wishes of her daughter, his lover, he hired a contract killer to murder her because she opposed their relationship. All that the film shows are the many locations that make up the tragedy: a tidy apartment, the bus station in Ankara, the parking lot, the hallway, the murder victim’s bed… On the way back to Istanbul, the motorway by night becomes a screen onto which the terrible inner torment of someone with a life on his conscience is projected. Then the film changes perspective and shows how the lovers met and what preceded the bloody deed. These seemingly harmless images and conversations become charged by the viewer’s prior knowledge, as if in a psychosis. Why did the mysterious Pelin hate her parents so much? That’s a question the film doesn’t answer. In Aidiyet, Burak Çevik conducts an elegant, exciting, and instinctual experiment with the detective impulses of his audience.
Written and directed by Burak ÇevikCinematography Barış Aygen
Editing Burak Çevik, Ali Aga
Music Mine Pakel
Sound Design Yalın Özgencil
Sound Ahmet Gürbüz
Production Design Dilşad Aladağ
Costumes Dilşad Aladağ
Cast: Çağlar Yalçınkaya (Onur); Eylül Su Sapan (Pelin)
Producers Burak Çevik, Fol Film, Selman Nacar, Kuyu Film, Mustafa Uzuner, Acéphale, Kerem Ayan
Produced by
Fol Film Istanbul, Turkey +90 532 5950706 cevikburak@gmail.com
Kuyu Film Istanbul, Turkey +1 646 6276463 nacar.selman@gmail.com
Acéphale Montreal, Canada +1 438 4967860 info@acephale.caKerem Ayan Paris, France +90 549 7455637 kerem@thefluorescents.com
World sales Fol Film Istanbul, Turkey nacar.selman@gmail.com
Burak Çevik
Born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1993. He completed his studies in Film and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2016. After his debut, Tuzdan kaide, Aidiyet is his second feature-length film.
Filmography
2018 Tuzdan kaide (The Pillar of Salt); 70 min., Forum 2018 2019 Aidiyet (Belonging)
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