Mavi Boncuk |
CINEMA OF TURKEY 2018-2019
This section showcases recent film productions from
Turkey in the National Competition, Out of Competition,
National Documentary Competition, National Short Film
Competition subsections. The jury will evaluate films
vying for the Golden Tulip Best Film, 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 Prize will be given in memory of Seyfi Teoman.
The festival awards Documentaries and Short Films as well.
National Competition
NEBULA
DEAD HORSE NEBULA
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 73’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Tarık Aktaş
Senaryo Screenplay: Tarık Aktaş Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Necmettin Akdeniz Kurgu Editing: Osman
Bayraktaroğlu Oyuncular Cast: Ali Yavuz Ilman, Barış Mert Bilgi, Ömer Bora, Serkan Aydın, Dilara Topuklular, Hasan
Türker, Mümin Süren Yapımcı Producer: Güneş Şekeroğlu Yapım Production Co.: Hay Film Dünya Hakları World Sales:
Hay Film
2018 Best Emerging Director
▪ When Hay is seven years old, he encounters
a dead horse in an open field, carefully observes
his discovery, and watches his father and other
grown-ups struggle to get rid of it. Unsure of this
memory, he is nonetheless much influenced by
this incident, and years later, when he cuts himself
during a sacrificial rite, it all comes flashing back.
Step by step, Hay goes down an inevitable and
spiritual path where he confronts the relationship
between human and nature, the unity of matter
and the living.
KIZ KARDEŞLER
A TALE OF THREE SISTERS
TÜRKİYE, ALMANYA, HOLLANDA, YUNANİSTAN TURKEY, GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS, GREECE
2019 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 107’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Emin Alper
Senaryo Screenplay: Emin Alper Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Emre Erkmen Kurgu Editing: Çiçek Kahraman
Müzik Music: Giorgos Papaioannou, Nikos Papaioannou Oyuncular Cast: Cemre Ebüzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir,
Kayhan Açıkgöz, Müfit Kayacan, Kubilay Tunçer, Hilmi Özçelik, Başak Kıvılcım Ertanoğlu Yapımcı Producer: Nadir
Öperli, Muzaffer Yıldırım Yapım Production Co.: Liman Film, NuLook Production Dünya Hakları World Sales: The
Match Factory
▪ Three sisters–Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva–are
reunited in the remote mountain village where
they grew up with their father, after having lived
as besleme (foster child and maid) with their foster
parents in the city. All three desire to return to
the city as soon as possible, whether this might
be achieved depends on their tactics of solidarity,
competition, and on the decisions of the men
around them including their father, their fosterfather, and Reyhan’s husband.
ADEN
EDEN
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 97’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Barış Atay
Senaryo Screenplay: Onur Orhan Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Barış Aygen Kurgu Editing: Ali Aga Müzik
Music: Uğur Ateş Oyuncular Cast: Funda Eryiğit, Onur Ünsal, Cemalettin Çekmece, Caner Erdem, Sermet Yeşil Yapımcı
Producer: Barış Atay Ortak yapımcılar Co-Producers: Onur Orhan, Nuray Şahin Yapım Production Co.: Barikat Film
Dünya Hakları World Sales: Barikat Film
▪ A man and a woman embark on a long and
difficult journey to leave war and famine behind
and find a new home, but find themselves stuck
in the world of two brothers who share a big dark
secret. “Aden is more than just a story about a
couple who take shelter in a house belonging to
two brothers who are trying to one up each other
in a fight for power. It is also a movie about a
vicious cycle that has kept going throughout the
history of humanity. Settlement, civilization, being
in power, war and destruction...”
KARDEŞLER
BROTHERS
TÜRKİYE, ALMANYA, BULGARİSTAN TURKEY, GERMANY, BULGARIA
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 102’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Ömür Atay
Senaryo Screenplay: Ömür Atay Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: A. Emre Tanyıldız Kurgu Editing: Doruk Kaya,
Amon Guilliard Müzik Music: Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Victor Chouchkov Oyuncular Cast: Yiğit Ege Yazar, Caner Şahin,
Gözde Mutluer Yapımcı Producer: Funda Ödemiş Ortak yapımcılar Co-Producers: Stefan Gieren, Borislav Chouchkov
Yapım Production Co.: Off Film, Atay Film Dünya Hakları World Sales: ArtHood Entertainment GmbH
2018 adana En İyi Erkek Oyuncu, Umut Veren Genç Kadın Oyuncu Best Actor (C. Şahin & Y. E. Yazar), Best Newcomer
Actress (G. Mutluer) | 2019 dhaka En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Best Actor (Y. E. Yazar)
▪ Yusuf, who has obeyed the family elders’
decision and set his sister up for an honour
killing, and his brother Ramazan, who committed
the murder, reunite 4 years later when Yusuf
is discharged on probation from the detention
center. The family turned in Yusuf, as he was a
minor at the time of the murder and would get a
reduced sentence. Yusuf’s regret for what he did
starts to become a threat to the family. Entering
the lives of the two brothers condemned to one
another’s destiny, Yasemin becomes the unwilling
witness to the honour killing that is kept as a
family secret. As Yusuf and Ramazan reckon with
their past and their conscience, Yasemin becomes
another liability for the family, just like Yusuf.
GÜVERCIN HIRSIZLARI
THE PIGEON THIEVES
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 82’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Osman Nail Doğan
Senaryo Screenplay: Osman Nail Doğan, Samet Doğan Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Mehmet Başbaran
Kurgu Editing: Naim Kanat Müzik Music: Ali Saran Oyuncular Cast: Seyit Nizam Yılmaz, Mert Buğra Tataroğlu, Kutay
Sandıkçı, Gökhan Yıkılkan Yapımcı Producer: Sinan Sertel, Turgay Şahin Yapım Production Co.: Fanus-u Hayal Dünya
Hakları World Sales: Fanus-u Hayal
2018 adana En İyi Kurgu, Umut Veren Genç Erkek Oyuncu (S.N. Yılmaz) Best Editing, Best Newcomer Actor
▪ 16 year-old Mahmut’s life consists of feeding
pigeons and making money from stealing others’
pigeons. His biggest dream is to own the best
pigeons. One day, one of his pigeons escapes and
does not return. When Mahmut finds a pigeon
nesting on a roof, he meets Ismail, an 8-year-old
boy living in that house. This meeting becomes a
most important turning point that will affect both
lives. Mahmut decides to steal pigeons only to
help Ismail achieve his dream.
GÖRÜLMÜŞTÜR
PASSED BY CENSOR
TÜRKİYE, ALMANYA, FRANSA TURKEY, GERMANY, FRANCE
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 95’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Serhat Karaaslan
Senaryo Screenplay: Serhat Karaaslan Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Meryem Yavuz Kurgu Editing: Ali Aga
Oyuncular Cast: Berkay Ateş, Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Füsun Demirel, İpek Türktan Kaynak, Erdem Şenocak, Müfit Kayacan,
Banu Fotocan Yapımcı Producer: Serkan Çakarer Yapım Production Co.: +90 Film Prodüksiyon Ltd. Dünya Hakları
World Sales: BAC Films
▪ As a prison letter examiner, Zakir’s job is to
black out objectionable content from the inmates’
incoming and outgoing mail. In his free time,
Zakir attends a writing course--his secret passion,
and means to socialising outside work. When the
course instructor asks the class to write a short
story based on a photograph, Zakir steals one
from an inmate’s letter. The photograph belongs
to convict Recep and his wife Selma. That’s when
the mundane life in the home he shares with his
mother and the prison begins to change.
IÇERDEKILER
INSIDERS
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 115’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Hüseyin Karabey
Senaryo Screenplay: Hüseyin Karabey Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Ulaş Zeybek Kurgu Editing: Sercan
Subaşı Müzik Music: Kıvanç Sarıkuş Oyuncular Cast: Caner Cindoruk, Settar Tanrıöğen, Gizem Erman Soysaldı, Feyyaz
Duman Yapımcı Producer: Hüseyin Karabey Yapım Production Co.: Asi Film Dünya Hakları World Sales: Asi Film
2018 adana Jüri Özel Ödülü, En İyi Yardımcı Kadın Oyuncu Jury Special Prize, Best Supporting Actress (G. E. Soysaldı)
▪ The police captain tells the teacher, who had
been held in custody for the past 6 months for
no apparent reason, that they will allow him to
meet with his wife even though conjugal visits
are restricted. In disbelief, the prisoner constantly
questions the reason for this deed. The prisoner
anticipates in the captain’s room for solitary
moments with his wife, but his guest brings a
different ethical problem into the equation that he
would need to confront.
SAF
TÜRKİYE, ALMANYA, ROMANYA TURKEY, GERMANY, ROMANIA
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 102’ | Türkçe, Arapça; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish, Arabic; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Ali Vatansever
Senaryo Screenplay: Ali Vatansever Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Tudor Vladimir Panduru Kurgu Editing:
Evren Luş Müzik Music: Erdem Helvacıoğlu Oyuncular Cast: Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Erol Afşin, Onur Buldu, Ümmü Putgül,
Kida Khodr Ramadan Yapımcı Producer: Selin Vatansever Tezcan, Oya Özden Ortak yapımcılar Co-Producers: Harry
Floeter, Joerg Siepmann, Anamaria Antoci Yapım Production Co.: Terminal Film Dünya Hakları World Sales: Doc &
Film International
▪ Istanbul’s Fikirtepe district. Urban
transformation is sweeping away poor
communities while Syrian refugees take shelter in
deserted buildings. Kamil and his wife Remziye
risk losing their home. Unemployed for a long
time, Kamil, has no choice but to secretly accept
a job on a construction site. Not only is he
taking the job from a Syrian refugee for a lesser
wage, he’s also working for the company that’s
destroying the neighbouring district. Oppression
and anxiety both in his neighbourhood and at
work, where he fears discovery and failure, will
gradually transform him, and Remziye will have
to face the consequences.
YUVA
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 119’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Emre Yeksan
Senaryo Screenplay: Emre Yeksan Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Jakub Giza Kurgu Editing: Selda Taşkın Müzik
Music: Mustafa Avcı Oyuncular Cast: Kutay Sandıkçı, Eray Cezayirlioğlu, İmren Şengel, Okan Bozkuş Yapımcı Producer:
Anna Maria Aslanoğlu Yapım Production Co.: istos film Dünya Hakları World Sales: istos film
▪ Veysel’s wild solitary life in the woods is
disrupted when the land he inhabits is sold to
investors. One day, his younger brother Hasan
comes from the city to convince him to leave. As
the imminent threat of eviction rapidly grows, the
belated confrontation of the two brothers leads to
the discovery of a magical home: a universe under
the earth.
KADER POSTASI
FATED HEARTS
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2019 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 104’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmenler Directors: Elif Akarsu Polat, Çiğdem Bozalı
Senaryo Screenplay: Elif Akarsu Polat, Çiğdem Bozalı Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Tufan Kılınç Kurgu
Editing: Ali Üstündağ Müzik Music: Yalçın Akyıldız Oyuncular Cast: Boncuk Yılmaz, Benian Dönmez, Şahin Ergüney,
Rana Kayaçan, Koray Efe Yazgan, İdil Yade Kırnık, Baran Salman, Sedef Akalın, Tansel Öngel, Görkem Yeltan Yapımcı
Producer: Ali Üstündağ Yapım Production Co.: US Filmcilik Reklam Tanıtım Ticaret Ltd. Şti. Dünya Hakları World Sales:
US Filmcilik Reklam Tanıtım Ticaret Ltd. Şti.
▪ Fated Hearts tells the story of a small-town
woman, Zeynep, beginning with her childhood,
extending into her teenage years, and adulthood.
Zeynep’s childhood friend Yusuf becomes her first
love in their teenage years. Their paths separate
with Yusuf’s timeless departure from the town.
This separation causes Zeynep to be a lonesome
woman in her adult years. She tries to find her
lost love in letters she writes to prison inmates.
Through these letters, she is led to an inmate
sentenced to life in prison.
ARADA
Dİ NAVBERÊ DE
IN BETWEEN
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 65’ | Türkçe, Kürtçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish, Kurdish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Ali Kemal Çınar
Senaryo Screenplay: Ali Kemal Çınar Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Ali Kemal Çınar Kurgu Editing: Ali Kemal
Çınar Oyuncular Cast: Osman Çınar, Fatma Yıldız, İhsan Şakar, Gülbin Bozan Yapımcı Producer: Ali Kemal Çınar Yapım
Production Co.: Layen Dünya Hakları World Sales: Layen
▪ Osman has trouble communicating, because
he can understand his mother tongue Kurdish
but cannot speak it; and can speak Turkish but
cannot understand it. For this reason, day-by-day,
he loses his ability to do two things at the same
time. He cannot respond to customers while
working, or cannot speak with his friends while
drinking coffee. He wants to get married, but with
this prevailing condition, it’s nearly impossible
to build permanent relationships with women.
After his last crush Fatoş rejects him, he sees
hope in what a customer recommends him–if he
wholly learns his mother tongue Kurdish, he will
overcome this problem.
SUÇ UNSURU
THE ELEMENT OF CRIME
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 81’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Süleyman Arda Eminçe
Senaryo Screenplay: Süleyman Arda Eminçe Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Emre Özel Kurgu Editing:
Süleyman Arda Eminçe, İsmet Araç Müzik Music: Dost Bilen Kırım, Yener Çevik Oyuncular Cast: Bülent Çolak, Koray
Erkök, Altuğ Elveriş, Burak Sarımola, Kaan Songün, Emre Şen, Duygu Yıldız Yapımcı Producer: Süleyman Arda Eminçe,
Behlül Berk Parça, Kaan Songün Yapım Production Co.: Varyete Film Dünya Hakları World Sales: Varyete Film
▪ Celal and Buğra are two close friends and
housemates. One morning, while deeply
asleep in the house they just moved in, they
are unexpectedly taken into custody by Captain
Baran and his squad, as lead suspects in an
investigation. Acting on a formal denouncement
and a warrant, Captain Baran and his squad focus
on these two they deem weird and odd. While the
squad search the house for any hard evidence as
much as the cat allows, Baran tries to weigh these
two with his interrogation. The search continues
as new doubts are raised and the conversation
between Baran, Celal and Buğra move to another
level.
SON ÇIKIŞ
SIREN’S CALL
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2019 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 93’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Ramin Matin
Senaryo Screenplay: N. Can Kantarcı Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Tayman Tekin Kurgu Editing: Evren Luş
Müzik Music: Barış Diri, Tamer Temel Oyuncular Cast: Deniz Celiloğlu, Ezgi Çelik Yapımcı Producer: Emine Yıldırım,
Oğuz Kaynak Yapım Production Co.: Giyotin Film Dünya Hakları World Sales: Fortissimo Films
▪ Tahsin is a burnt-out architect working for one
of the construction firms transforming Istanbul
into a massive concrete jungle. One night he
meets Siren, an exotic woman who does organic
farming in southern Turkey. Instantly enchanted,
he decides to follow her down south. He packs a
suitcase, bids angry farewells at work, and heads
for the airport. Yet, as one urban mishap leads
to another, Tahsin finds himself penniless and
phoneless in an enraged district going through
urban renewal – the very district where his latest
project is constructed.
National Documentary Competition
MELEKLERIN KORUYUCUSU
GUARDIAN OF ANGELS
TÜRKİYE, ABD TURKEY, USA
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 76’ | İngilizce; Türkçe altyazılı English; Turkish s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Ensar Altay
Senaryo Screenplay: Ensar Altay Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Kürşat Üresin Kurgu Editing: Mustafa Benter,
Ensar Altay Katılanlar With: Mohamed Bzeek, Samantha R., Marilou Terry Ortak yapımcı Co-Producer: Fatih Er Yapım
Production Co.: Türkiye Radyo Televizyon Kurumu Dünya Hakları World Sales: TRT World
2018 hollywood bağımsız belgesel ödülleri ındependent documentary awards En İyi Yabancı Film Best
Foreign Film
▪ Mohamed Bzeek, originally from Libya, moved
to the U.S in 1978 for the university but stayed
after getting married to Dawn, a foster mom
for terminally ill children. Together they looked
after 80 terminally ill children. His wife passed
away in 2015, yet he continues to care for the
girl that they adopted together, Samantha, a little
girl who suffers from anencephaly–the absence
of a major portion of the brain which results in
her being deaf and blind. Mohamed must attend
to her constantly throughout the day with her
many needs and must always be alert. Samantha
is almost seven now, and Mohamed wants to
celebrate this success with a birthday party.
However, it may not turn out as planned and may
lead to a new dilemma.
Tanrı Göçmen Çocukları Sever mi Anne? Trailer / HY-TR from Rena Lusin Bitmez on Vimeo.
TANRI GÖÇMEN ÇOCUKLARI SEVER MI ANNE?
DO YOU THINK GOD LOVES IMMIGRANT KIDS, MOM?
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2019 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 96’ | Ermenice; Türkçe, İngilizce altyazılı Armenian; Turkish, English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Rena Lusin Bitmez
Senaryo Screenplay: Rena Lusin Bitmez Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Nurdoğan Erduvan Kurgu Editing:
Rena Lusin Bitmez, Uğur Hamidoğulları Katılanlar With: Ruzanna Babayan, Hasmik Varteresyan, Antranik Yedigaryan,
Harutyun Boğosyan Yapımcı Producer: Rena Lusin Bitmez Yapım Production Co.: RenaArt Film Dünya Hakları World
Sales: RenaArt Film
▪ This film tells the struggle of Armenian
families migrated to Turkey/Istanbul who try to
provide education for their children despite all
the circumstances. In the core of this struggle,
which started in 2003, there stands a dining hall
centered school, located in a basement of a church
where migrant children receive education from
volunteer educators. During the film, the struggle
of children living in a foreign land, their daily
lives, their former habits and longings are told
through the eyes of migrant children.
ŞEHITLER
HEROES
TÜRKİYE, AVUSTRALYA TURKEY, AUSTRALIA
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 88’ | Türkçe, İngilizce; Türkçe, İngilizce altyazılı Turkish, English; Turkish, English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Köken Ergun
Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Batu Tezyüksel Kurgu Editing: Köken Ergun Yapımcı Producer: Köken Ergun
Ortak yapımcılar Co-Producer: Australian War Memorial, Protocinema, Artspace Sydney Dünya Hakları World Sales:
Studio Ergun
▪ Each year, crowds of Turkish, Australian and
New Zealander tourists travel to Gallipoli, Turkey.
They honor their fallen soldiers who lost their
lives in the Gallipoli/Çanakkale Campaign—one
of the bloodiest conflicts of World War One—,
which is considered as a defining moment in
the establishment of the Turkish nation state as
well as the beginning of national consciousness
in Australia and New Zealand. With heightened
emotions, they move around the historical
battlefields, graves and war monuments, with the
help of guided tours tailored for each community.
Over the course of two years, Köken Ergun joined
various Gallipoli tours, recording divergent war
narratives told by different tour guides, emotional
reactions of their audience, interviews with tour
participants and patriotic theatre plays organised
by the Turkish state. The resulting film offers a
rare insight into how nationalist emotions are
kept alive.
YAZ KIŞ DEMEDEN
COME RAIN OR SHINE
TÜRKİYE, ERMENİSTAN TURKEY, ARMENIA
2019 | HD | Renkli ve Siyah & Beyaz Colour and B&W | 61’ | Ermenice, Türkçe, İngilizce; Türkçe, İngilizce altyazılı
Armenian, Turkish, English ; Turkish, English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Zeynep Güzel
Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Zeynep Güzel Kurgu Editing: Ronit Meranda Müzik Music: Mert Hocaoğlu
Yapımcı Producer: Zeynep Güzel Dünya Hakları World Sales: Zeynep Güzel
▪ The filmmaker creates the narrative of the
questioning journeys made to Armenia from
Turkey, reexamining the heritage of trauma,
loss and belonging in the unique beauty of
contemporary Armenia’s deindustrialized cities.
Despite language and national divides, she
connects with Ashot and Karine who steadfastly
bare their struggles, becoming her chosen family
as she searches for the past and finds revealing
attachments to the foreign yet familiar country. In
her poem-like letters, she surmises the meaning
of the past, foothold in an uncertain present and a
firm, even hopeful resolve for the future.
KÖPEK FILMI
DOG MOVIE
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2019 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 60’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Cem Hakverdi
Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Cem Hakverdi Kurgu Editing: Cem Hakverdi Yapımcı Producer: Cem Hakverdi
Dünya Hakları World Sales: Cem Hakverdi
▪ We’re used to seeing stray dogs in our
neighbourhoods. About their living conditions,
we only know what we see. Today, hundreds of
thousands of stray dogs in Turkey are struggling
for their lives under harsh conditions. Only
few are able to survive and that is thanks to
extraordinary efforts of animal lovers. It is sad that
their future depends on human beings. Whatever
we choose to do or not to do, that will be it for
them.
BULUTLAR
CLOUDS
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2019 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 40’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Osman Nuri İyem
Senaryo Screenplay: Osman Nuri İyem Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Özgür Biber, Doris Hason, Osman Nuri
İyem, Efe Koç, Ali Onur Olgun, Burak Serin Kurgu Editing: Ayris Alptekin Müzik Music: Konstrukt Katılanlar With: Akkız
Bulut, Mustafa Bulut, Dursun Baran Pala Yapımcı Producer: Haluk Özel, Eren Maçoro, Roy Kamhi, Osman Nuri İyem
Yapım Production Co.: H.E.R. Media Dünya Hakları World Sales: H.E.R. Media
▪ Clouds is a tragi-comical docudrama that takes
place in a small Aegean village in Turkey. It
depicts the true story of a family comprised of an
uncle, an auntie and their niece, from a neutral
and humanistic standpoint. The film observes, for
four years of their lives, the relationships between
the characters and the events that unfold around
them, trying to understand the aspects that
contribute to, as well as hinder, the development
of communal empowerment and local economic
sustainability. Focusing on their daily narratives
and the ensuing emotional impasses, it presents
different modalities of existence each character
establishes in order to survive and to persevere.
KÂZIM
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 85’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Dilek Kaya
Senaryo Screenplay: Dilek Kaya Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Devrim Taban, Volkan Emrecik, Mert Omay
Kurgu Editing: Dilek Kaya, Aziz Günhan İmamoğlu Yapımcı Producer: Dilek Kaya Dünya Hakları World Sales: Dilek
Kaya
2018 trt uluslararası belgesel film günleri ınternatıonal documentary days Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Ödülü
Award of Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Republic of Turkey
▪ In the summer of 2016, the director of this
documentary film bought a bunch of discarded
letters from a flea market in Izmir, Turkey.
Written in the 70s, the letters were addressed to
Kâzım Küçükalp, apparently a smart, vivacious,
and adventurous youth, who was a fan of
European and American rock bands of the
time. After accidentally discovering that Kâzım
died during a mountain expedition in 1974,
at the age of 19, the director set off a journey,
which extended from Izmir to Artvin. Finding
the owners of the letters and the mountaineers
who witnessed Kâzım’s death, the documentary
reconstructs Kâzım’s story and intertwines it
with the journey of the director. The film is also a
partial story of 1970s youth culture in Turkey.
GULYABANI
HOLLANDA, TÜRKİYE THE NETHERLANDS, TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli ve Siyah-Beyaz Colour and B&W | 34’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Gürcan Keltek
Senaryo Screenplay: Gürcan Keltek, Ebru Ojen Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Murat Tuncel, Gürcan Keltek
Kurgu Editing: Fazilet Onat, Gürcan Keltek Oyuncular Cast: Zeynep Kumral Yapımcı Producer: Marc Van Goethem,
Gürcan Keltek, Arda Çiltepe Yapım Production Co.: 29P Films, Vigo Film Dünya Hakları World Sales: 29P Films
2018 montréal belgesel documentary ff Mansiyon–Kısa/Orta Metraj Special Mention–Short/Medium
▪ Gulyabani is an entity, a ghoul, an outsider:
she’s the restless spirit of a desolate and lonely
place. Fethiye Sessiz, a notorious clairvoyant of
Izmir in ‘70s and ‘80s, remembers fractions
of her survival from abuse, kidnappings, and
violence. Recounting the events of her childhood
through her diary entries and letters to her
estranged son, Gulyabani recollects the emotional
landscape in the most violent period of postRepublic Turkey, where the memory of the future
and fragments of the past come together at once.
BAŞTAN BAŞA
HEADS AND TAILS
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2019 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 57’ | Türkçe, İbranice, İngilizce; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish, Hebrew, English; English s.t.
Yönetmenler Directors: Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel
Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Raşel Meseri, Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel Kurgu Editing: Fırat Yücel, Aylin Kuryel
Müzik Music: Fırat Yücel Katılanlar With: Coya Daniel, Sima Meseri Badash Yapımcı Producer: Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel
Ortak yapımcılar Co-Producer: Özgür Doğan, Enis Köstepen Dünya Hakları World Sales: Aylin Kuryel
▪ Heads and Tails chronicles the curious hair
trade between Turkey and Israel. Two Turkish Israeli women, Coya and Sima, get the tails of
hair from male hair traders from Turkey and
sell them to wig makers in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan,
and Bnei Brak. Orthodox Jewish women cover
their heads with the wigs made of the hair which
once belonged to women from Anatolia. In this
journey, the hair is turned into a commodity, a
means of living and source of beauty, becomes
kosher, yet doesn’t pay much to its owner, the one
who carefully grows the hair.
VARGIT ZAMANI
TIME TO LEAVE
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 52’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Orhan Tekeoğlu
Senaryo Screenplay: Orhan Tekeoğlu Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Serdar Güven Kurgu Editing: Naim Kanat
Katılan With: Hasan Atalay Yapımcı Producer: Nurdan Tekeoğlu Yapım Production Co.: Medya Ton Ltd. Dünya Hakları
World Sales: Michael Noll
▪ After working in Germany for many years, the
80-year-old Hasan returns to Turkey and moves
in to his old wooden house in the highlands with
his cow and calf. Hasan’s son Erdoğan, who works
in Germany, ailing a serious disease and his
last wish is to spend a few nights in the wooden
house, falling into sleep listening to the sounds of
the wind. Hasan, who has neglected his son in the
past, gets to work on his son’s wish and prepares
a room for him. He races against time and after
finishing his preparations starts waiting for his
son’s arrival.
AETHER
TÜRKİYE, İTALYA TURKEY, ITALY
2019 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 82’ | Konuşmasız No dialogue
Yönetmen Director: Rûken Tekeş
Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Ute Freund, Deniz Eyüboğlu Aydın, Merle Jothe, Andres Lizana Prado Kurgu
Editing: Marco Spoletini, Rûken Tekeş Müzik Music: Diler Özer, Metehan Dada Yapımcı Producer: Rûken Tekeş, Billur
Arıkan, Gabriele Oricchio Ortak yapımcılar Co-Producer: Cengiz Karadağ, Ayşe Valentin Yapım Production Co.: Sarya
Film Dünya Hakları World Sales: Fabula Films
▪ A filmmaker’s 21-day homage to capture the
ethereal essence of her unique ancient homeland
soon to be submerged by a hydroelectric dam,
Aether is instinctively carried and driven by
emotions, feelings and observations. It reveals the
place’s truths following its own unencumbered
chronology. An invitation to a free-minded voyage
into nature’s cycle of birth-death-rebirth.
AMINA
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2019 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 70’ | Fransızca, Türkçe, Wolof; Türkçe altyazılı French, Turkish, Wolof; Turkish s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Kıvılcım Akay
Senaryo Screenplay: Kıvılcım Akay Görüntü Yön. Director of Photography: Meryem Yavuz Kurgu Editing: Eytan İpeker
Müzik Music: Erdem Helvacıoğlu Katılan With: Aminata Fall Yapımcı Producer: Aslıhan Altuğ Ortak yapımcılar CoProducer: Beste Yamalıoğlu Yapım Production Co.: Akay Film Dünya Hakları World Sales: Akay Film
▪ Amina is a 29-year-old Senegalese woman
who works as a dress model in a textile company
in Istanbul. Leaving her daughter behind, she
immigrated to Turkey seven years ago to earn
money and to take care of her daughter’s needs.
Amina faces many challenges each day as an
African woman living in Turkey. She fights these
difficulties keeping alive her hopes of going back
to her daughter and her country, she also dreams
of being a real model one day. As an immigrant,
Amina is in two minds–between her realities and
her dreams.
National Short Film Competition
AKVARYUM
AQUARIUM
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 15’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı
Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmenler Directors: Anıl Kaya, Özgür Önurme
Senaryo Screenplay: Anıl Kaya, Özgür Önurme Görüntü
Yön. Director of Photography: Murat Akay Kurgu Editing:
Ali Aga Müzik Music: Taylan Aygar Oyuncular Cast: Başak
Daşman, Tamer Levent, Zeynep Tuğçe Bayat, Atalay
Göktaş, Deniz Atam, Doğu Yücel Yapımcı Producer:
Cansu Aydın Yapım Production Co.: Onlookers Dünya
Hakları World Sales: Onlookers
▪ Zuhal is preparing for the newsletter, Defne
is running after her, Vedat is not happy with the
salad he is supposed to have for lunch, and Harun
is not around as usual. If Çağlar had not talked
about the news that could overflow the water in
the aquarium, everything at TRN seemed as it
should have been.
SONSUZ
AD INFINITUM
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 13’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı
Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Murat Çetinkaya
Senaryo Screenplay: Murat Çetinkaya Görüntü Yön.
Director of Photography: João Paulo Garcia Kurgu
Editing: Umut Sakallıoğlu Müzik Music: Taner Yücel
Oyuncular Cast: Serhat Kılıç, Bülent Çolak, Ulaş Yatkın
Yapımcı Producer: Dilek Aydın Dünya Hakları World
Sales: Murat Çetinkaya, Dilek Aydın
2018 malatya En İyi Ulusal Kısa Film Best National
Short | 2018 hasan kalyoncu üni. En İyi İkinci Kısa
Film Best Short Runner Up
▪ At the centre of a barren and mysterious
universe stands a shed. From within, the Leader
oversees his subordinates, but they cannot
look inside. After an encounter with one of his
subordinates, the Leader faces the fact that his
authority is crumbling. In order to regain his
authority, he decides to use brute force, but
nevertheless the battle for authority persists.
GÜMÜŞ
THE GENTLE SADNESS OF THINGS
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 16’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı
Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Deniz Telek
Senaryo Screenplay: Deniz Telek Görüntü Yön. Director
of Photography: Emre Pekçakır Kurgu Editing: Kubilay
Dallı Müzik Music: Ozan Çoban Oyuncular Cast: Sercan
Özinan, Emiş Yıldırım, Hasan Ali Yıldırım Yapımcı
Producer: Kübra Kip Dünya Hakları World Sales: Deniz
Telek
2018 alpavırama (hindistan ındıa) Uluslararası
Yarışma–En İyi Kurmaca Film International Competition–
Best Fiction | 2018 izmir En İyi Üçüncü Kurmaca Kısa
Film Best Third Fiction Short
▪ After his father’s death, Ali goes to his
hometown to bring his mother to the city where
he lives. But, his mother agrees on one condition
only: he has to find a place for his father’s
heirloom dog.
AVARYA
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 20’ | Türkçe; İngilizce
altyazılı Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Gökalp Gönen
Senaryo Screenplay: Gökalp Gönen Görüntü Yön. Director
of Photography: Gökalp Gönen Kurgu Editing: Gökalp
Gönen Canlandırma Animation: Ferit Yücel, Özlem Süme,
Murat Tahan, Ümit Çalık, Altuğ Demircioğlu, Erman
Seles, Gökalp Gönen, Ecem Okumuş, Özgür Aydoğdu
Seslendirme Voices: Sermet Yeşil, Damla Çay Müzik
Music: Ozan Çanak, Yasemin Özler Oyuncular Cast:
Sermet Yeşil, Damla Çay Yapımcı Producer: Gökalp Gönen
Dünya Hakları World Sales: Gökalp Gönen
▪ Embarked on a spaceship in the hope of finding
a new habitable planet, the human is trapped in
his own ship after the robot overseer finds every
single candidate planet unsuitable. Eventually, the
human finds a way out, but that will only reveal a
dark secret.
GIDERAYAK
PARTING SHOT
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018
| DCP
| Renkli Colour
| 11’
| Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı
Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Özgür Cem Aksoy
Senaryo Screenplay: Özgür Cem Aksoy Görüntü Yön.
Director of Photography: Muratcan Gökçe Kurgu Editing:
Murat Sağlam Oyuncular Cast: Mustafa Erkan, Murat
Sağlam, Deniz Gerede, Cengiz Samsun Yapımcı Producer:
Özgür Cem Aksoy Dünya Hakları World Sales: Özgür Cem
Aksoy
2018 adana Jüri Özel Ödülü Special Jury Prize
▪ There is an incident at an otherwise very
ordinary Turkish funeral. A man drops his phone
inside the grave while throwing soil during the
burial. He promptly interrupts the service to
take his phone back. However someone in the
community denies this request due to religious
beliefs. The imam leading the funeral intervenes
and an extraordinary discussion unfolds.
DURGUN SUYUN SAYHASI
SCHREI DES STILLEN WASSERS
SCREAM OF STILL WATER
TÜRKİYE, ALMANYA TURKEY, GERMANY
2019
| DCP
| Siyah-Beyaz B&W
| 7’
| Almanca, Türkçe;
Türkçe, İngilizce altyazılı German, Turkish ; Turkish,
English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Yusuf Elbaşı
Senaryo Screenplay: Yusuf Elbaşı Görüntü Yön. Director
of Photography: Nils Jakob Timm Kurgu Editing: Yusuf
Elbaşı Müzik Music: Nazım Eren Yanık Oyuncular Cast:
Hasibe Tuncay, Emma Neuhaus Yapımcı Producer:
Alara Hamamcıoğlu Dünya Hakları World Sales: Alara
Hamamcıoğlu
▪ A ciné poème composed of different poetries
and different kinds of images… Scream of Still
Water is inspired by Hamburg Fischmarkt and
the poems of İsmet Özel and Cemal Süreya.
KUYRUK
THE TAIL
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2019
| DCP
| Renkli Colour
| 10’
| Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı
Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Yiğit Hepsev
Senaryo Screenplay: Yiğit Hepsev Görüntü Yön. Director
of Photography: Birkan Yorulmaz Kurgu Editing: Ali
Aga Oyuncular Cast: Fatih Al, Elit Andaç Çam Yapımcı
Producer: Aslıhan Altuğ, Büke Akşehirli Dünya Hakları
World Sales: Aslıhan Altuğ
▪ Ekrem, a middle-aged literary translator living
alone, has found a way of dealing with his inner
voice over the years. When he goes to take the
trash out, he encounters his neighbour Şevval,
who does not care much about the world. The
conversation brings them closer and causes
Ekrem to question himself.
PANTOLON
PANTOR
TROUSERS
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 15’ | Kürtçe; Türkçe, İngilizce
altyazılı Kurdish; Turkish, English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Tahsin Özmen
Senaryo Screenplay: Tahsin Özmen Görüntü Yön. Director
of Photography: Vedat Oyan Kurgu Editing: Apo W. Bazidi
Oyuncular Cast: Suat Usta, A. Kadir Aslan, Halil Katar,
Seymen Aslan Yapımcı Producer: Tahsin Özmen Ortak
yapımcılar Co-Producer: Apo W. Bazidi Dünya Hakları
World Sales: Burn A Light Production
▪ Following the passing of the Turkish dress-code
law enforcing men to wear trousers and hats in
the cities, a single set of clothes and a single hat
is kept in a remote village in Anatolia. Anyone
from the townsfolk who wishes to go to the big
city needs to ask permission and borrow this set
from the village chief. When Dilo tries on the
pants before going to town, he finds out that he is
too tall. So instead, he decides to steal the village
teacher’s suit.
SEVINÇ VESAIRE
JOY ET CETERA
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 15’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı
Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Kurtcebe Turgul
Senaryo Screenplay: Kurtcebe Turgul Görüntü Yön.
Director of Photography: Alp Korfalı Kurgu Editing:
Rıdvan Temana Müzik Music: Ahmet Altınel Oyuncular
Cast: Nergis Öztürk, Caner Erdem, İbrahim Selim, Onur
Ünsal Yapımcı Producer: Kurtcebe Turgul Dünya Hakları
World Sales: istos film
▪ At a nondescript government agency
suspended in time, a group of lexicographers
are about to settle into their usual routine: the
eradication of all unnecessary, objectionable and
potentially objectionable words by unanimous
vote. Discussions need to be made and decisions
reached, by this motley crew, in this gloomy
room, for all of humanity, when in walks the new
Typist with fresh questions and challenges for the
entire group.
GÖRÜŞME
THE CONVERSATION
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 12’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı
Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Vehbi Bozdağ
Senaryo Screenplay: Vehbi Bozdağ Görüntü Yön. Director
of Photography: Melih Özhan Dinçel Kurgu Editing:
Gültekin Ergene Müzik Music: Engin Ergen Oyuncular
Cast: Beyti Engin, Tuna Kırlı Yapımcı Producer: Vehbi
Bozdağ Dünya Hakları World Sales: Feelsales
▪ Faruk is an ordinary accountant in his thirties.
He has been working in the same office for years.
Trying to pluck up his courage on his way to
work, he’s been preparing to talk to his boss about
a matter preoccupying him for a while.
AMCA
THE GEEZER
TÜRKİYE TURKEY
2018 | DCP | Renkli Colour | 11’ | Türkçe; İngilizce altyazılı
Turkish; English s.t.
Yönetmen Director: Senem Bay
Senaryo Screenplay: Senem Bay Görüntü Yön. Director
of Photography: Firar Güney Kayran Kurgu Editing:
Senem Bay Müzik Music: Özgür Zoral, Görkem Han,
Ethnique Punch Oyuncular Cast: Hakan Yalçınkaya
Yapımcı Producer: Senem Bay Dünya Hakları World Sales:
Surrealland Production
2018 le petıt cannes Jüri Mansiyon Special Mention of
the Jury
▪ Geezer tells the story of a man who has
dedicated his life to his only passion: dancing.
He lost his wife, kids, and wealth to pursue his
dreams, but nevertheless still has the ambition to
live, the passion and his joy for life. Deliveryman
by day, dancer by night, he is definitely one of the
“others.
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