Documentaries& FilmShorts

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1 Documentaries& FilmShorts

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3 Jale İncekol Jale İncekol Born in 1970 in Istanbul. She graduated from Ege University Institute of Higher Education in Since 1992, he has worked as an assistant director on numerous television series and started directing in TURKISH CINEMA 2018

4 Jale İncekol SHORT FILMS Jale İncekol Born in 1970 in Istanbul. She graduated from Ege University Institute of Higher Education in Since 1992, he has worked as an assistant director on numerous television series and started directing in 2003.

5 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA ,5 LİRA ABIGAIL HASTABAKICI Colour Colour 17 Hasan Ali Kılıçgün Soner Sert Hasan Ali Kılıçgün Salih is a market employee without any social security. He makes his living via tips that he gets when he packages and carries the bags of customers when it is demanded. Moreover he has no right of catering or transportation. He eats in canteen occasionally if there is any plenty of food. Although he stays distant Salih has some intimate feelings to Hacer, who works as a cleaning lady in the same market. Soner Sert Anna is a woman in her late twenties. She emigrated Turkey from Russia. She is earning her life by nursing housebound patients. After an unexpected development, Anna decided to change her job and things will be harder for her. Turkey, 2018, Colour 20 A HARD DAY AT THE EMPIRE İMPARATORLUKTA ZOR BİR GÜN FACTORY FABRİKA Colour 9 Beste Yamalıoğlu besteyamalioglu@gmail.com Sezen Kayhan Ehemm Production Cansu (26) starts to work as an art department assistant on the set of an Ottoman period soap opera. She meets with the unsatisfiable director of the series. Whatever she does, she cannot fulfill the extreme requests of the director. Challenging conditions, various caprices and endless requests bring her to an irreversible moment. Batuhan Köksal argbatuhan@gmail.com Batuhan Köksal There is a huge and old factory that produces televisions. TV is switched on and the show begins. Gearwheels start to work

6 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 FLEAS AND HUMANS HAPPINESS PİRELER VE İNSANLAR MUTLULUK Colour 9 Colour Serkan Uzunyol serkanuzunyol@gmail.com Necip Çağhan Özdemir caghanozdemir@gmail.com Serkan Uzunyol The fleas are sort of bugs belonging to blood sucker family. Their size ranges from 1.5 to 3 mm.thanks to their special body structure, they stick onto the skin of their targets and suck their body excretions. Necip Çağhan Özdemir The story of a man who works against all unhappiness despite all the obstacles in an auto repair shop. Colour 5 55 FREQUENCY FREKANS LEARNING HOW TO SWIM YÜZME ÖĞRENİYORUM Colour 13 Ahmet Serdar Karaca ahmetkaraca@std.sehir.edu.tr Serpil Altın serpilaltin@gmail.com Ahmet Serdar Karaca Emre speaks about issues like morality, love and friendship in his radio program. In one program, someone says, he took his sister hostage. He orders Emre to find an amount of money from his friends within an hour, in live broadcast. The blackmailer is intent on showing Emre s distorted friendships. Serpil Altın Hasan and Ruksan are a couple who fled away from the internal war in Syria and settled in Izmir, Cesme in Turkey. They dream about leaving Cesme to go to Europe by boat for a better future. Ruksan learns how to swim so she can survive if things go wrong

7 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 MR LONELY AND YOUR SOUL SCALE ÖLÇEK Turkey 2017, 6 Colour Turkey 2017, 6 colour İlhami Tunç Gençer kendinbul@gmail.com Emine Gezici Üstündağ eminegez@gmail.com İlhami Tunç Gençer At the point where dreams and the analog world intersect, every animator is sort of a fan of Emile Cohl; it is a work relevant to him/me and life. Emine Gezici Üstündağ A woman, who feels suffocated of business world and city life finds a way out. Colour PASS AWAY BİR TABUT İNSAN SOIL Colour 19 Okan Akgün okannakgun@gmail.com Alican Durbaş adurbas@gmail.com Okan Akgün A community consisting of an imam and twelve people. They move towards the forest to bury the deceased Ihsan. When they are looking for the place of cemetery plot and carrying the death on their shoulder, they lose the way. Pass Away inserts the audience in those people s small world in the funeral ritual of anatolian people. Alican Durbaş Conceived through the division of the screen into nine cinematic frames, the film Soil narrates the imaginary journey of a young man who carries handfuls of soil excavated from a garden into the grave of a deceased soldier who happens to be burying his own dead body

8 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 SPLINTER STORYTELLER KIYMIK HİKAYECİ Turkey 2017 Colour 18 Istos Film Anna Maria Aslanoğlu Enes Yurdaün PRODUCER Anna Maria Aslanoğlu At her grandma s who s on her deathbed, SENA (7) finds herself among relatives and neighbors all waiting solemnly. While trying to observe this silence, she also tries to learn/imitate the rituals. Turkey, 2018, Colour 16 Anıl Güldoğan anilguldogan@gmail.com Anıl Güldoğan In earlier times, there was a story writer named Sait who worked as a cleaning officer at a train station. One day, Sait fells in love with a woman he saw in the train and an unpredictable story begins. STORY OF A JOB INTERVIEW BİR İŞ GÖRÜŞMESİ HİKAYESİ Colour 15 Alkım Özmen alkimen@hotmail.com Alkım Özmen PRODUCER ESR Film, Origine Film, Alaimisema Film Erdem is a 35 years old journalist. He s been unemployed for the last 15 months and he s about to become a father. He desperately needs a job. Being rejected once again in a job interview, he takes the news editor as a hostage. THE VALLEY VADİ Colour Can Erkan cannerkan@gmail.com Can Erkan, Salih Toprak In a time when wars are made with swords, in an imaginary land, two armies set out to conquer new lands

9 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TOPRAK SALVATION RAIN GEÇ GELEN YAĞMUR Turkey, France 2017, Colour Turkey, 2018, Colour 15 Onur Yağız on.yagiz@gmail.com Onur Yağız PRODUCER Pierre- Louis Garnon Toprak, 8, translates for his parents who can t speak French. Today, he goes to the hospital with them for his mother s second trimester ultrasound. He will be the first one to know if the twin babies are brothers or sisters. Asiye Alimci Çelik asiyealimci@gmail.com Veysel Çelik PRODUCER Asiye Alimci Çelik In his childhood Janya survived by escaping as the only one from a night massacre in his village. After 20 years he comes back and the psychological process of repressed grief begin. Janya creates a new reality, but thunderstorms remind him of real life. He lives now in a double time zone. Colour 28 TORN LOVE TRUCK KAMYON Colour Medya Ton nurdan.tumbek@gmail.com Balim Tanriover, PToT Films balim@ptotfilms.com Nurdan Tekeoğlu Ali (16) comes to Ambarseki village placed in Karaburun, Izmir in Turkey from the village of Kareferye in Greece along with his grandmother (Hatice 60) and aunt (Zeynep 35) during the population exchange in Canbert Yerguz PRODUCER PToT Films Besim, who set out on a long interprovincial journey with the truck escrowed to him, is stuck in the middle of a deserted road in the heart of Anatolia because of an engine breakdown. His efforts to find a mechanic for the truck, fearing that it will catch on fire, becomes more and more complicated with the arrival of kids, a flock of stray sheep, a peasant with a scooter, other peasants with cars, and even more peasants

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11 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 BEHIND THE CLOUDS DOCTOR BULUTLARIN ARDINDA HEKİM Colour 22 Colour 10 Fatih Ertekin Yavuz Üçer Fatih Ertekin A Georgian village Maden Village that is living in winter for six months. Faced with the danger of extinction as a result of a major migration movement, there is almost no young population in this village. Yavuz Üçer Turkoman Beşir and his family forced to flee to Turkey from Syria because of their village was bombed in the civil war of Syria. Beşir s dream because the civil war was being a doctor, but after he is not answering to the question What s your dream?. Beşir have to work, away his mother and without see her. Then he started to mix trashes and collect waste papers and cardboards. Colour 15 DEVOTED MEFTUN FAR FROM HOMELAND ÜLKEMDEN UZAKTA Colour 20 Hasan Ete ete.hasann@gmail.com Haydar Demirtaş ajansba@gmail.com Hasan Ete Mehmet Orhan Turan who is 70 years old now couldn t get together with his lover, who he felt in love at the fountain when he was 17 years old. He still has been waiting hopefully the day of coming of the woman he loves in a wooden cabin near the fountain in Taşlıçay Town of Ağrı. After ISIS attacked Yezidis the Yezidis went to Turkey. Yezidis lost their hometowns and they forcedly became refugees. Haydar Demirtaş 21 20

12 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 RED SAVRUN KIRMIZI Colour Colour 16 Abdurrahman Demir Hakan Yıldırım Abdurrahman Demir An interesting love story by Sultan Özcan who lives in Konya. They are married for a while after they have married Ramadan, because they do not have children. When they are married, Ramazan Sultan gets a lot of reds. He does not want you to wear another color. After separation, his love of Sultan begins to live in red color. The Sultan, living a red life, loves himself in red. Hakan Yıldırım The documentary takes the topic from the people who fights for the cost of living who are elderly,kid and young, male and female, work on picking up and washing even though the weather is cold or rainy in winter in Çukurova. Colour 19 RETURN DÖNÜŞ THE EDGE OF MENDERES MENDERES KIYISINDA Colour 18 Nesli Özalp Tuncer nesliozalp@gmail.com Mehmet Can Mıcık mehmetcanmicik@gmail.com Nesli Özalp Tuncer The story telling the journey of the 3rd and 5th generation women from a family who had to leave the country because of the population exchange between Turkey and Greece. Will they be able to take their families soil from their graves to their homeland, Kavala? Mehmet Can Mıcık The documentary about life of the Cambaz Abdullah Kocarlı in the light of the memories that he has accumulated for many years in the experience of art

13 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 THE GUEST MİSAFİR Colour 12 Orhan Dede Orhan Dede Five children who lost their mother and father in the war in Syria together with their grandparents migrated to Turkey and tried to hold on to life. WILD YABAN Colour 9 Volkan Budak volkanbdk@gmail.com Volkan Budak The film tries to explain human / animal antagonism through buffalo and other animals living in the Red River Delta. FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES Taylan Mintaş mintasfilm@gmail.com Taylan Mintaş In 2008, the artist entered the Department of Painting-Craft in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Marmara University. He completed his bachelor degree in He opened two individual exhibitions and his work was shown in many mixed exhibitions. He shot I Got an Idea!, an experimental video art movie, in He shot another short film, 0 RH-, in He was the director of photography, editor and co-producer of documentary film From the Space Syria is Here which was broadcast on The Guardian s website. He started writing his first feature length script, The Murder. The Murder was selected to Antalya Film Festival s Film Support Fund in The artist is carrying out his works in a studio based in İstanbul. 24

14 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 A STORY WITH MUSIC, MÜZİKLİ BIR HİKAYE BROTHERS OF SILENCE, SESSİZLİĞİN KARDEŞLERİ Turkey 2018, 65, Colour Turkey, Colour Jale İncekol Taylan Mintaş incekoljale@gmail.com mintasfilm@gmail.com Jale İncekol Taylan Mintaş Born in 1970 in Istanbul. She graduated from Ege University Institute of Higher Education in Since 1992, he has worked as an assistant director on numerous television series and started directing in Jale İncekol PRODUCER Hayal Evi SCRIPT Jale İncekol DOP Ozan Akakça EDITING Kadir Kandemir Music teacher starts to work in a village in town of Varto in Aslı Tanrıkulu Muş. Shortly thereafter, they set up a 40-person orchestra composed of village children there children learn Turkish, Kurdish, English songs. Taylan Mintaş PRODUCER Mintaş Film SCRIPT Taylan Mintaş DOP Taylan Mintaş EDITING Bapdiste Gacoin, Taylan Mintaş MUSIC Başar Ünder CAST Asim Mintaş, Cengiz Mintaş, Tanju Mintaş, Yazgül Mintaş, Mecbure Mintaş Located in the Northeast Turkey, the province of Kars is tucked away between the Plato of Eastern Anatolia and Armenia. Stunningly beautiful land known for its hot summers and harsh winters is where the story of BROTHERS OF SILENCE unfolds. A random example in Turkish documentary making of the cinema verite both in style and storytelling, loosely scripted film\ s plot evolves around the family of the filmmaker\ s mute cousins Toso and Çao Mintas who he follows for four years. Respectfully carrying out his observation, Taylan Mintas creates an intimate slow burning \ a la\ Jean Rouch movie utilizing meditative and melancholic moods combined with In 2008, the artist entered the Department of Painting-Craft in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Marmara University. He completed his bachelor degree in He opened two individual exhibitions and his work was shown in many mixed exhibitions. He shot I Got an Idea!, an experimental video art movie, in He shot another short film, 0 RH-, in He was the director of photography, editor and co-producer of documentary film From the Space Syria is Here which was broadcast on The Guardian s website. He started writing his first feature length script, The Murder. The Murder was selected to Antalya Film Festival s Film Support Fund in The artist is carrying out his works in a studio based in İstanbul. sharp images and the breathtaking panoramas of North East Turkey

15 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 CONFRONTATION, YÜZLEŞME HER FIRST ONUN FİLMİ Turkey, Colour Turkey, Colour Nejla Demirci Su Film Nejla Demirci Su Baloğlu Nejla Demirci was born in Ağrı, Turkey. She graduated from the department of Sociology at Eskişehir Anadolu University. In 2012 she completed her first award winning documentary film Gündöndü (Sunflower) about an ecological subject. Nejla Demirci PRODUCER Ney Film DOP Koray Kesik EDITING Kristina Karasu, H. Özlem Sarıyıldız, Barış Özkaya CAST Ebru Semra Demirbaş, Nurcan Çelik, Nuray Güvendi Azeri, Sergun Ağar Ebru s life suddenly changes when she finds out that she got breast cancer. While trying to cope with the trauma and wavering between tendencies to defy, to look for a remedy, or to give up, she starts to meet other people who had the same disease. Inspired by all these people with different stories, Ebru will be, from now on, in solidarity with them. While seasons change, their friendship and solidarity will turn into a dance. Su Baloğlu, Merve Bozcu PRODUCER Su Film SCRIPT Su Baloğlu, Merve Bozcu DOP Baran Şaşoğlu EDITING Derya Başer MUSIC Serkan Alkan CAST Nisan Akman, İlksen Başarır, Zeynep Dadak, Nisan Dağ, Bingöl Elmas Two young women decide to give up their careers in academia to make a documentary that follows Turkey s women directors. They spend two years shooting, make 5000 kilometers, and record every moment of this journey of discovery and self-discovery. But the real journey is just about to begin. Su Baloglu graduated from Carleton University. She has been producing films since 2009 and is the co-founder of Istanbul chapter of the New York based women directors collective Film Fatales. Merve Bozcu Merve Bozcu is a graduate of Kadir Has University with an M.A. in Film and Television and currently works as a director

16 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 MIRADJIYAH HIDDEN HERITAGE MİRÂCİYYE SAKLI MİRAS NUBLU Turkey 2017, 64 Colour Turkey 2017, 73 Colour Rasathane Film Fırat Sezgin Murat Erdağı Sercan Sezgin Murat Pay Murat Pay graduated from Radyo&TV department of Marmara University in He completed his MAs in Marmara University Theology Faculty Department of Islamic History and Arts with a thesis on Shadow Play Karagöz and Cinema. He writes on film for Hayal Perdesi and Anlayış magazines. Murat Pay PRODUCER Rasathane Film SCRIPT Ayşe Pay, Alper Bozkurt DOP Feza Çaldıran EDITING Mesut Ulutaş, Efra Mehan CAST Mehmed Safiyuddin Erhan, Nail Kesova, Murat Taştekin Mi radjiyah written and composed by great composer Nâyî Osman Dede who died in early 18th century is regarded as one of the masterpieces of Turkish music. The docu-fiction tells the story of Raci s search for this forgotten heritage through four different stories set during his childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Sercan Sezgin PRODUCER Daniska Reklam Kültür Tasarım SCRIPT Sercan Sezgin DOP Birkan Yorulmaz EDITING Sercan Sezgin CAST Ilhan Erşahin, Sun Ra Arkestra, Henry Threadgil, Robert Glassper This music film is an impressionistic documentary of a musician-run space in the East Village called Nublu. Nublu is a place where artists with diverging musical styles experiment and develop their own sounds, carrying the tradition of the older NYC nightspots (Slugs, Five Spot etc.) & Loft Jazz scene. Born and raised in Istanbul, Sercan went to a French High- School. In 2014, he graduated from the film production department in NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Over the past four years, he has been hosting his radio show Lion s Milk first on WNYU 89.1 FM and now on Radio Campus Paris 93.9 FM. He now works in Paris for a post production company called Film Factory. He made three short films. Nublu is his first feature film

17 TURKISH CINEMA 2018 THE LEGEND OF YAŞAR KEMAL YAŞAR KEMAL EFSANESİ NOTES Turkey 2017, 113 Colour Aydın Orak Aydın Orak Aydın Orak was born in He is living in İstanbul. He left Bilgi Univercity Stage Art- Performance. Aydın Orak PRODUCER Aydın Orak SCRIPT Aydın Orak DOP Ece Güneş Saadetyan EDITING Aydın Orak MUSIC Murat Hasarı CAST Yaşar Kemal, Orhan Pamuk, Zülfü Livaneli, Arif Keskiner, Türkan Şoray The life of the world known famous writer Yaşar Kemal is shown on the screen by the help of expressions of his friends who have witnessed his life. The turning point of the legendary author s life is exhibited in an epic style. The archival footages from unpublished archives, recordings of hundreds of hours and thousands of pages documents are used for this film. The Legend Of Yaşar Kemal depicts his life and death by giving his attitude towards the struggles and his literature placed in that. 32

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