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SWAYING WATERLILY | RÜZGARDA SALINAN NİLÜFER | Director: Seren Yüce / Screenwriter: Seren Yüce / DOP: Barış Özbiçer / Editor: Mary Stephen / Music: Gökçe Akçelik / Cast: Tolga Tekin, Songül Öden, Tülay Günal, Eraslan Sağlam, Duru Lal Pakel, Taha Yusuf Tan, Serpil Göral, Ayşe Tunaboylu, Esme Madra, Serkan Kesin, Sezin Bozacı / Producers: Gökçe Işıl Tuna, Sevil Demirci / Co-Producers: Stefan Schubert, Yıldız Özcan (Wüste Film Ost) / Production Co.: Motiva Film, Yeni Sinemacılar / World Sales: Motiva Film / Turkey / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 107´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Having reached their 40s Handan and Korhan live a humdrum life in an upper scale neighbourhood in Istanbul. Handan tries to keep herself occupied, relentlessly trying on new pastimes, counting on Korhan´s support for each one. Korhan, on the other hand, having witnessed too many of her whims, has learnt not to make much of them. Failing to get any support or attention from her husband, she takes up writing in order to fill her void, which she imitates from her author friend Sermin. Her aspiration quickly turns into jealousy, disrupting the dynamics between the two families.
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Mavi Boncuk |WEDDING DANCE | KASAP HAVASI | Director: Çigdem Sezgin / Screenwriter: Çigdem Sezgin / DOP: Ersan Çapan / Editor: Çigdem Sezgin, Yakup Baysal / Original Music: Demircan Demir / Cast: İnanç Konukçu, Şenay Gürler, Hakan Karahan, Cemre Ebuzziya / Producer: Çigdem Sezgin / Production Co.: 1 Mart Filmcilik / World Sales: 1 Mart Filmcilik / Turkey / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 103´ / Turkish; English s.t.
2015 Antakya Best Director, Best Actor (İ. Konukçu)
Taxi driver Ahmet, who is about to get engaged to the young girl his mother pushes for, starts a passionate affair with the tailor Leyla, who is his elder. While Ahmet´s love for Leyla and Leyla´s wish to confront her past by being engaging with a younger man drag the relationship to marriage, Leyla´s old flame Semih returns to Istanbul from Germany for the first time in 18 years, to bid farewell to his sick mother. Semih´s return will be a great danger to Ahmet and Leyla´s relationship. From now on, nothing will remain the same.
Please click here for the tnterview with director Çiğdem Sezgin on Wedding Dance.
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Mavi Boncuk |MOTHERLAND | ANA YURDU | Director: Senem Tüzen / Screenwriter: Senem Tüzen / DOP: Vedat Özdemir / Editor: Adam İsenberg, Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Senem Tüzen / Cast: Esra Bezen Bilgin, Nihal Koldaş, Fatma Kısa, Semih Aydın / Producer: Adam İsenberg, Senem Tüzen, Olena Yershova / Co-Producer: Nikos Moutselos / Production Co.: Zela Film / World Sales: Zela Film / Turkey, Greece / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 94´ / Turkish; English s.t.
2015 Warsaw FIPRESCI Prize, NETPAC Best Asian Film2015 Adana Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Actress (N. Koldaş), SİYAD Best Film, FILM-YÖN Best Director2015 Asia Pacific Screen Awards Best Screenplay2015 Tbilisi Best Film
Nesrin is an urban, middle-class woman recovering from a divorce. She´s quit her office job, abandoned her house in Istanbul, and come to the village house of her deceased grandmother to finish a novel and live out her childhood dream of being a writer. When her conservative and increasingly unhinged mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin´s writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter as the two are forced to confront the darker corners of each other´s inner worlds.
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DUST CLOTH | TOZ BEZİ | Director: Ahu Öztürk / Screenwriter: Ahu Öztürk / DOP: Meryem Yavuz / Editor: Ali Aga / Cast: Nazan Kesal, Asiye Dinçsoy, Mehmet Özgür, Serra Yılmaz, Didem İnselel, Gökçe Yanardağ / Producer: Çiğdem Mater, Nesra Gürbüz / Co-Producer: Stefan Gieren / Production Co.: Roni Film, Ret Film / World Sales: Roni Film / Turkey, Germany / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 98´ / Turkish, Kurdish; English s.t.
2016 Nürnberg Best Film, Best Actress (N. Kesal, A. Dinçsoy)
Two cleaning ladies, their relationships with the people whose homes they clean, the conflicts in their daily lives, the hierarchies in their close friendships and family relations, their struggle to cling to life, as well as womanhood and motherhood, house-cleaning and poverty... Shuttling between the destitution and wealth of the city, Nesrin and Hatun try to understand life and find a way of their own. As Hatun tries to save up enough money to buy a home in a neighborhood where she cleans houses, Nesrin struggles with the absence of her husband and her own loneliness, while also trying to find a way through life with her five year-old daughter. The paths of these two women may be different, but their companionship is enduring as they cling to disparate dreams.
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Source: Metin Heper - Historical Dictionary of Turkey Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | 2009-01-28 | ISBN: 0810860651
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Queen of the Desert is a 2015 American epic biographical drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog and is based on the life of British traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer and political officer Gertrude Bell. The film follows Bell's life chronologically, from her early twenties till her death. It is Herzog's first feature film in six years after his 2009 film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?.
The film stars Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis and Robert Pattinson. After going through many delays and casting problems, production finally took place from December 2013 to March 2014 in Morocco, Jordan and England. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and had its premiere on 6 February 2015.It had a theatrical release in Germany on 3 September 2015.
The film chronicles the events of Gertrude Bell's life, a British explorer, traveller, archaeologist and political officer.
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The almond groves of Samarqand,Bokhara, where red lilies blow.And Oxus, by whose yellow sandThe grave white-turbaned merchants go.Oscar Wilde*
BezeklikSogdianMerchants
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The Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Central Asian region of Sogdia, located in modern-day Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan (capital: Samarkand; other chief cities: Panjakent, Fergana, Khujand and Bukhara), as well as some Sogdian immigrant communities in ancient China. Sogdian is one of the most important Middle Iranian languages, along with Bactrian, Khotanese Saka, Middle Persian and Parthian.
It possesses a large literary corpus. The Sogdian language is usually assigned to a Northeastern group of the Iranian languages, although this is a Sprachbund rather than a genetic group. No direct evidence of an earlier version of the language ("Old Sogdian") has been found, although mention of the area in the Old Persian inscriptions means that a separate and recognisable Sogdia existed at least since the Achaemenid Empire (559-323 BCE).
Like Khotanese, Sogdian possesses a more conservative grammar and morphology than Middle Persian. The modern Eastern Iranian language Yaghnobi is the descendant of a dialect of Sogdian spoken around the 8th century in Ustrashana, a region to the south of Sogdia.During Tang China (ca. 7th century CE), the Silk Road's lingua franca in Central Asia was Sogdian.along which it amassed a rich vocabulary by loanwords such as tym ("hotel") from the Middle Chinese /tem/ (Chinese: 店).
The economic and political importance of Sogdian guaranteed its survival in the first few centuries after the Muslim conquest of Sogdia in the early eighth century. A dialect of Sogdian spoken around the 8th century in Ustrashana (capital: Bunjikat, near present-day Istaravshan, Tajikistan), a region to the south of Sogdia, developed into Yaghnobi language and has survived into the 21st century. It is spoken by the Yaghnobi people. See also: Aspects of the relationship between the ancient Turks and Sogdians -Based on a stone statue with Sogdian inscription in Xinjiang- Takashi Ôsawa
The Glories of Sogdiana by Albert E. Dien
Mavi Boncuk | The several Sogdian principalities, mostly small, were formed in antiquity, and some minted their own coinage. Many were at least nominally subject to Samarkand, but their situation would change with each new "super power" that exerted control over the area. For a time, for example the Turkish khagans on the steppes supported the Sogdian rulers, protected Sogdian trade, and employed Sogdians as officials and diplomats.
Word Origin | Turkish terms derived from Sogdian
Acun: world (the earth)Akşam: evening, last nightBey[1]: gentleman, mister, lord, masterKent[2]: cityOtağ[3]: tent, royal tent
[1] From Ottoman Turkish (bey), from Old Turkic beg, “chief, titled man”). There are different theories about the further etymology of the word beg. According to one theory the word may ultimately come from Middle Chinese Middle Chinese [script needed] (baak, pak).[1] Another theory states that the word may have its origins in Sogdian [script needed] (baga, “lord, master”), therefore from Proto-Indo-European *bhag-. Nonetheless German Turkologist Gerhard Doerfer assessed the derivation from Iranian as uncertain and pointed out that the word may be genuinely Turkic.
[2] From Old Turkic kend (“city, settlement”). The word in Turkish used to mean "village", "rural settlement" until the 20th century, during the language reforms the word was thought to be genuinely Turkic and a secondary meaning "city" that of old Turkic was preferred. From Sogdian [script needed] (kand, “city”), possibly cognate with Kurdish gund (“village”).
[3] From Old Turkic otag, from Old Turkic ōta- ("make a fire, to give out smoke, to fume"). Closely related to the shamanistic feature of a shaman (summoning different kinds of spirits or demons). See oda. Or from Sogdian ʾwtʾʾk (ōtāk, “place, region”). Compare Azeri otaq, Turkish otağ, and Turkmen otag.
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Mavi Boncuk | EU Day | May 9, 2016
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Mavi Boncuk | Eu Day | Recommended Blog LinkWords of Europe See sample Posting
Umberto Eco once said in a now famous sentence that “the language of Europe is translation”. He is probably right, as Europeans may need to go past their linguistic differences so as to share common experiences. At the same time, words in every language express much more than the same generic ideas. Many words are just untranslatable and express a part of a specific culture and history. Getting to know other words in other languages is a way to improve one’s perception of the world. This section thus tries to provide an insight into the rich European linguistic patrimony. Let’s play on words!
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TURKEY'S KING: ERDOGAN AFTER DAVUTOGLU By Soner Cagaptay
Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute.
Foreign Affairs May 8, 2016
Read the full version of this excerpt on the Foreign Affairs website:
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's May 5 resignation at the request of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a further consolidation of power in the hands of a man who is already the most powerful politician in Turkey since the country became a multiparty democracy in 1950. Erdogan has ruled since 2003, first as prime minister and head of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and then as president, a constitutionally non-partisan office in Turkey's parliamentary system. When Erdogan became president in 2014, Davutoglu took over as AKP chair and became the country's new prime minister. Davutoglu had risen in politics as Erdogan's chief adviser, finally becoming Erdogan's foreign minister in 2009. The two men were colleagues in conceiving and executing Turkey's foreign policy pivot to the Middle East. Accordingly, when Erdogan offered Davutoglu the prime minister position that was sure to be somewhat neutered, Davutoglu happily obliged.
To the extent that Davutoglu was a compliant partner of Erdogan, for instance, working closely with him on Syria, where the two have tried for years to oust the Bashar al-Assad regime, Davutoglu never completely satisfied Erdogan. This is because Davutoglu is a household name both in Turkey and overseas, which irked Erdogan, who seeks to consolidate and personalize political power. Erdogan was reportedly upset, for instance, when Davutoglu wanted to visit Washington to meet with President Barack Obama only weeks after the Turkish president himself had visited Washington in March 2016 to do the same.
Having now fallen from grace, Davutoglu is likely to become a quiet observer of Turkish politics, following the path of previous cast-off AKP officials, including former President Abdullah Gul, who have chosen not to confront Erdogan after he ejected them from the AKP leadership. For his part, Erdogan is set to pick a new, more compliant politician as AKP chair at the party's May 22 convention. This person will then take office as the country's new prime minister, and after some months, few will even recall the name of the new leader, much like in Jordan or Morocco, where all-powerful kings overshadow little-known prime ministers...
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THE APPRENTICE | ÇIRAK | Director: Emre Konuk[1] / Screenwriter: Emre Konuk / DOP: Gürol Beşer / Editor: Emre Konuk / Cast: Hakan Atalay, Çiğdem Şelışık Onat, Tuğrul Çetiner, Levent Öktem / Producer: Enes Erbay / Production Co.: Erbay Media And Production Co. / World Sales: Erbay Media And Production Co. / Turkey / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 86´ / Turkish; English s.t.
2015 Antalya Best Supporting Actress (Ç. Selışık Onat), Best First Feature2015 Writers´ Union of Turkey Best Film
Alim works as a tailor´s apprentice to Yakup for the past 15 years. Obsessive and fearful of death, he is stuck in the routine of a mundane life. He opens the store in the mornings and either takes a nap or watches TV until his boss arrives. In the evenings, he goes home carpooling with Kemal from the coffeehouse. When he watches a news item on TV about the perils of cars running on LPG, he starts to check out each taxi he rides on to see whether it runs on autogas or not, each time, he marks a score. To avoid using a vehicle, he decides to move to a new apartment closer to work. This change he makes will be a vital turning point for Alim.
[1] Born: November 1, 1988 (age 27), Istanbul Province, Turkey
Movies: The Trace[*] (cinematography), The Apprentice[*] Director: M. Tayfur Aydin; Writer: M. Tayfur Aydin; Cast: Necmettin Çobanoglu, Bilal Bulut, Serdar OrçinBeing at death's door, Seristan, an old woman at her eighties, wants her son to take her back to her homeland, with a last wish to be buried there. Her son, Mirza, is determined to keep his promise no matter what happens, thereby revealing an inconvenient truth about the roots of the family...
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Turkey stands out as a real growth market among the other - mostly mature - European markets, where admissions have been stagnating or even declining over the past ten years as GBO growth was driven primarily by increasing ticket prices linked to 3D and digital cinema.In contrast, Turkey has been registering a remarkable growth trend with admissions more than doubling from 24.6 million in 2003 to 50.4 million in 2013. This represents an average annual growth rate of 7.4% per year and compares to an average annual decline of -0.6% in the EU. Turkish GBO even grew by 15.4% per year on average, compared to 1.6% in the EU. Only the Russian Federation has registered higher growth rates and growth in volume over the past years.
Turkish box office growth has been largely driven by a growing number of extremely successful local blockbusters regularly selling up to 4 million tickets. Box office growth was also stimulated by the enlargement and modernisation of Turkey’s screen base as a large number of modern cinema complexes were opened in the mushrooming number of newly constructed shopping malls over the past decade.
With a population of 76 million, a comparatively low cinema going rate and a growing economy, the Turkish theatrical market is believed to keep growing by 6% to 7% per year before reaching maturity in 2018.
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The Turkish film industry. Key developments 2004 to 2013Author: Martin KANZLER[*], European Audiovisual Observatory
Published: 28/11/2014The full report is available in English:The Turkish film industry 2004-2013 - Full Report
As Turkish cinema celebrates its 100th anniversary, the Turkish film industry looks back at a dynamic and eventful history. Today, Turkey is firmly established as the 2nd largest European theatrical growth market and the 7th largest theatrical market in terms of admissions, only superseded by the ‘big 5’ EU markets and the Russian Federation. The Turkish film market also stands out in the pan-European landscape as the only market where national films regularly outperform US films.
The Observatory’s report is probably the most comprehensive market analysis of the Turkish film industry available in the English language. It provides a sound overview of the development and current trends in:
Turkish film policy and legal framework;box office;exhibition market;distribution market;export of Turkish films abroad.Apart from a brief historic overview the report focuses on key developments between 2004 and 2013 and sets the Turkish film industry into the context of other European markets, providing comparisons where meaningful and elaborating structural differences, which are important in gaining a better understanding about how the Turkish film market works.
[*] Martin Kanzler | biography | Martin received an MA in TV & Film Production from the Donau-Universität Krems, Austria. He has been the analyst within the Department for Information on Markets and Financing at the European Audiovisual Observatory since September 2007. He is also responsible for the field of film statistics and the LUMIERE database. Following his studies at the University of Vienna where he studied international business economics, he worked for five years for Ernst & Young Corporate Finance in Berlin as an MA Advisor in the media and entertainment branch.
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THE LAST BIRDS | SON KUŞLAR | Director: Bedir Afşin / Screenwriter: Bedir Afşin, Bünyamin Duranoğlu / DOP: Hayk Kirakosyan / Editor: Bedir Afşin / Cast: Şahverdi Ali Eren, Fatma Öney, Senar Sağdıç, Ergül Coşkun / Production Co.: Arkadaş Film Yapım / World Sales: Arkadaş Film Yapım / Turkey / 2016 / DCP / Colour / 90´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Bekir is a tradesman who runs his own business in Istanbul. When he feels like he is stressed out in the big city and work, he decides to go to his homeland for a short vacation, planning to go hunting in order to relax. As soon as he arrives in the village, he goes hunting in the woods. But hunting season has not started yet, and the villagers are scared that off-season hunting might bring bad luck. To top it, when Bekir arrives lots of misfortunes begin to happen. The villagers think that all these misfortunes begin after Bekir´s arrival. Bekir keeps hunting without giving any thought to the birds he shoots or the trouble it would cause him. With every sound of gunshot, the villagers look towards the woods and wait for the return of one who hunts.
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Mavi Boncuk |ENTANGLEMENT | DOLANMA | Director: Tunç Davut / Screenwriter: Tunç Davut / DOP: İlker Berke / Editor: Tunç Davut, Mesut Ulutaş, Ömer Günüvar / Original Music: Murat Asil / Cast: Muhammet Uzuner, Defne Halman, Baran Şükrü Babacan / Producers: Sinem Altındağ, Tunç Davut / Production Co.: Tekhne Film / World Sales: Tekhne Film / Turkey / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 93´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Seasonal forest workers Kemal and Cemal are brothers, living in a house inherited from their father on the outskirts of a village in the West Black Sea region of Turkey. Not being appointed to a permanent staff position leads them to an uncertain future. Kemal has always been fatherly to his brother. Intending to begin a new life, Nalan comes along with Kemal and quickly adopts the house as her own. Although her existence soothes Cemal, who is shaken by his mother´s death, it deepens Kemal´s worries.
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Mavi Boncuk | ANGEL´S SHEPHERD | MELEKLERİ TAŞIYAN ADAM | Director: Cansel Elçin[1] / Screenwriter: Cansel Elçin / DOP: Özgür Taylan Düşko / Editor: Muammer Koçak / Original Music: Umut Döven / Cast: Serkan Batçı, Kadir Özdal, Tereza Bonaventurova, Kadir Özüpek, Ali Erkazan / Producer: Cansel Elçin / Production Co.: Kiproko Films / World Sales: Kiproko Films / Turkey / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 80´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Married as a young boy years ago, Hasan resides in a rural village working as a shepherd. When he learns of his father’s illness, he travels to Istanbul to care of his family and begins to work as a taxi driver for a living. He discovers a new man within himself as he goes on with his life in the big city, Istanbul.
[1] Cansel Elcin was born on September 20, 1971 in Tire, Izmir, Turkey. He is an actor and director, known for Remember Darling (2006), 120 (2008) and Küçük kiyamet (2006). He has been married to Pinar Apaydin since July 4, 2012. His family moved to France when he was 9 years old. Studied at the École Florent in Paris, France. French citizen. He has grown up trilingually (French, English, Turkish). Member of the jury at the 44th Antalya Golden Orange International Short Film Festival in 2007. Won the 'Best Male TV Actor Award' at the Communation Awards in 2008 for his role in "Hatirla Sevgili" (2006). The award is voted by students of the Beykent University's Faculty of Communations (Istanbul, Turkey). Wrote and directed his first short film called "Papillon" in 2003, which was shown at several film festivals.
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Mavi Boncuk |ANATOLIAN TALES | ANADOLU MASALLARI | Director: Emin Fırat Övür / Screenwriter: Emin Fırat Övür / DOP: Andaç Şahan / Editor: Natalin Solakoğlu / Original Music: Erdem Tunalı / Cast: Can Girgin, Okan Yalabık / Producer: Sinan Yabgu Ünal, Servan Güney / Production Co.: Rotanet Prodüksiyon / World Sales: Rotanet Prodüksiyon / Turkey / 2016 / DCP / Colour / 73´ / Turkish; English s.t.
“To be a hero, one must take the road and leave home,” says Gökdemir İhsan. This fairy tale tells the story of a hero´s journey, meetings with friends, and enemies on this journey, overcoming the obstacles, tough and scary struggles, and acquiring wisdom. Perhaps just like Joseph Campbell points out, this is the journey of all humanity. Anatolian Tales tells the story of searching the wisdom of an ancient narrative, fairy tale and its form, with the guidance of storytellers, experts, and academicians, based on a collage tale composed from hundreds of years old anonymous fairy tales.
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Mavi Boncuk |UNDER THE SKY | ENKAZ | Director: Alpgiray M. Uğurlu / Screenwriter: Alpgiray M. Uğurlu / DOP: Barış Akyüz / Editor: Ahmet Alan, Alpgiray M. Uğurlu / Original Music: Tevfik Kulak / Cast: Akasya Asıltürkmen, Berke Üzrek / Producer: Suzan Güverte / Co-Producers: Umut Bayoğlu (Mantra Film), Barış Akyüz, Koray Sevindi / Production Co.: Güverte Film / World Sales: Güverte Film / Turkey / 2016 / DCP / Colour / 81´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Nisa is stuck under the debris after an earthquake and fights to get out of her entrapment on her own. Confined to therapeutic eremitism, Barış records a video diary of his day-to-day life and his most profound emotions. Both are damaged beyond recovery.
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Mavi Boncuk |WE WERE DINING AND I DECIDED | YEMEKTEYDİK VE KARAR VERDİM | Director: Görkem Yeltan / Screenwriter: Burcu Aktaş, Yalçın Akyıldız, Nilüfer Uğur Dalay, Görkem Yeltan / DOP: Ercan Özkan / Editor: Çiçek Kahraman / Original Music: Yalçın Akyıldız / Cast: Arzu Okay, Mehmet Güreli, Sema Poyraz, Gökçer Dinç, Ayçıl Yeltan, Kaan Çakır, Görkem Yeltan, Turgay Aydın, / Producer: Yalçın Akyıldız / Production Co.: Yeditepe Film / World Sales: Yeditepe Film / Turkey / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 84´ / Turkish; English s.t.
Even the weakest wind can trigger a stormy atmosphere in families. There are always unopened discussions, secrets no one would reveal to each other and some topics always kept in the dark. They whisper but await on the sly as a messenger of a big storm. There are countless of these messengers for Rıza Gülsoy and his family. However, Rıza, the Emperor, still believes in the fortress of his family. During The Feast of the Sacrifice, all the family–sons, daughters, granddaughters, relatives–gather at the country house of Rıza Gülsoy. They celebrate the holiday while they share the good memories, dine, drink, sing, and dance. Horror starts when one of the granddaughters of Rıza, suddenly disappears. This ruins the festive spirit. Every member of the family is haunted by the thought of her being kidnapped. The relief comes when the granddaughter is found but some secrets are already revealed. There is no turning back.
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Mavi Boncuk |BAD CAT | KÖTÜ KEDİ ŞERAFETTİN | Directors: Mehmet Kurtuluş, Ayşe Ünal / Screenwriter: Levent Kazak, Bülent Üstün / DOP: Barış Ulus / Editor: Aylin Zoi Tinel Animator: Ahmet Tabak, Alp Gürsoy, Bora Şahin / Original Music: Oğuz Kaplangı, Sabri Tuluğ Tırpan, Serkan Çeliköz / Voice Talents: Uğur Yücel, Demet Evgar, Okan Yalabık, Güven Kıraç, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Yekta Kopan, Cezmi Baskın, Ayşen Gruda, Gökçe Özyol / Producers: Mehmet Kurtuluş, Vehbi Berksoy, Can Deniz Şahin / Production Co.: Kare Kare Film Yapım / World Sales: Kare Kare Film Yapım / Turkey / 2016 / DCP / Colour / 84´ / Turkish; English s.t.
As animals inhabiting streets Shero and his friends are after what anyone else in their notoriously sleazy Istanbul neighborhood wants: debauchery with girls, food, and the occasional drinking binge. When their paths cross with humans though, things get a little out of hand in hilarious, harsh and unexpected ways. The film opens as Shero, Rıfkı the Seagull and Rıza the Rat are getting ready for a barbeque night. This ordinary looking day will prove otherwise as Shero causes the accidental death of a prospect lover, gets chased to death by his enemies, falls in love, finds out that he is father to a son only to deny him and all these small mishaps upset the grand plans for the night.
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Mavi Boncuk |THE COOP | KÜMES | Director: Ufuk Bayraktar / Screenwriter: Ufuk Bayraktar / DOP: Yusuf Aslanyürek / Editor: Ufuk Bayraktar, Ayhan Ergürsel / Original Music: Gökçe Akçelik / Cast: Ufuk Bayraktar, Hasibe Eren, Selen Domaç / Producer: Ufuk Bayraktar, Ali Adnan Özgür / Production Co.: Hiç Film Yapım / World Sales: Hiç Film Yapım / Turkey / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 87´ / Turkish; English s.t.
2015 Antalya Audience Award–National Competition2015 Antakya Best Film, Best Screenplay
Once upon a time, a four-child family lives in peace and quiet in a mountain village. Their peaceful life shatters when they find out that the mother has contracted tuberculosis. The mother believes that she will pass away in a short period of time. Because of this saddening fact, she has her husband marry an infertile woman, considering her children´s future. Six months pass and she beats the disease. That´s when two wives start to live together...
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