Berlinale 2016. World Premiere of Asli Özge's first German language feature film and 4 Turkish Films by first time directors.
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Auf Einmal
Asli ÖzgeRegie, Buch: Aslı Özge Kamera: Emre Erkmen Schnitt: Muriel Breton, Aslı Özge Produzenten: Fabian Massah, Aslı Özge Darsteller: Sebastian Hülk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler, Sascha Alexander Gerşak, Luise Heyer, Natalia Belitski, Lea Draeger, Christoph Gawenda, Atef Vogel Produktion: EEE Productions, Berlin (Deutschland) Deutschland /Niederlande / Frankreich 2016 112 Min. ∙ DCP ∙ Farbe
Following a party in Karsten’s flat, everyone goes home – except Anna. Karsten feels drawn towards the mysterious young woman. An unexpected event and a moment of weakness change everything, and Karsten loses control of his well-ordered life in a small town in Germany. Tensions in the family and in his circle of friends follow. His attempt to live life as if nothing has happened fails. Disappointment breeds rage and injustice, calamity takes its course and, just as Karsten thinks he has his life under control again, he has become a different person. Berlin writer and director Aslı Özge prefixes her film with a quote from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” The film’s unassuming, carefully composed, well-lit images and fitting sound design creates tension which allows the audience to sense the growing unease and looming disaster. Questions of guilt and morality, justice and hypocrisy are addressed.Aslı Özge Born in Istanbul, Turkey, she has lived in Berlin since 2000. After graduating from the Film and Television Academy at Marmara University, she directed short films and a documentary. Her cinema debut MEN ON THE BRIDGE celebrated its international premiere at Locarno in 2009 and went on to win numerous awards. Her second feature HAYATBOYU (LIFELONG) screened in the Berlinale Panorama in 2013. AUF EINMAL is her first German-language feature film.
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Genç Pehlivanlar| Junge Ringer | Young Wrestlers
Mete Gümürhan
Dokumentarfilm Regie Mete Gümürhan Niederlande/Türkei 2016 Produktion Aslı Akdağ, Aydin Dehzad, Kaan Korkmaz, Zeynep Aşkın Korkmaz Kamera André Jäger Schnitt Ali Aga, İnèz Poortinga Türkisch dt. Einsprache · engl. UT · 90 Min
Like other boys their age, Baran, Ahmet and their classmates wrestle with the desire for recognition, with homesickness and with their target weights. Most of all though, they wrestle with, and against, one another. They are comrades and competitors, united by one and the same dream: Olympic gold! In their wrestling academy in the Turkish province of Amasya, which is well known for this traditional form of combat sport, they undergo strength and endurance training, they learn lifts and throws, they urge each other on and they console one another. Always responding to the boys’ needs, the trainers give the boys tough love, sometimes fatherly, sometimes strict and disciplinary. The film’s intimate documental camera bears close witness to the fine line between friendship and competition, victory and the lesson of how to lose.
Born in 1975, he grew up in Rotterdam. In 2009 he graduated in filmmaking at the Willem de Kooning Academy. He participated in Berlinale Talents in 2012. GENÇ PEHLIVANLAR is his debut film as a director.
Mavi Bisiklet | Das blaue Fahrrad | Blue Bicycle
Ümit Köreken
Regie Ümit Köreken Türkei/Deutschland 2015 Produktion Ümit Köreken, Nursen Çetin Köreken Buch Ümit Köreken, Nursen Çetin Köreken Kamera Niklas Lindschau Schnitt Ali Aga Musik Cafer Ozan Türkyılmaz mit Selim Kaya, Eray Kılıçarslan, Bahriye Arın, Katya Shenkova Türkisch dt. Einsprache · engl. UT · 94 Min
Twelve-year-old Ali’s mother sells the clothes she knits on the streets of a Turkish town, while he himself earns a little money on the side working in a garage when he’s not in school. Ever since his father’s been gone, the family has been struggling to avoid financial ruin. The beautiful blue bicycle that he admires regularly in a shop window on his way home seems far removed from his reality. Ali’s heart belongs to Elif, the school’s head prefect. When she is forced to step down from her office and make way for Hasan, the new kid in class, on the orders of the headmaster, Ali is unable to just accept this undemocratic move. In spite of his family’s precarious situation, Ali and his best friend risk getting expelled in order to fight for justice – and for pretty Elif.
Ümit Köreken
Born in Akşehir in the Turkish province of Konya in 1978, he studied management at Anadolu University in Eskişehir. He has written radio plays, theatre plays and short stories. He began studying filmmaking in 2011.
Rauf
Barış Kaya, Soner Caner
Regie Barış Kaya, Soner Caner Türkei 2016 Produktion Selman Kızılaslan, Kazım Uğur Kızılaslan, Burak Ozan Buch Soner Caner Kamera Vedat Özdemir Schnitt Ali Emre Uzsuz, Ahmet Boyacıoğlu Musik Ayşe Önder, Ümit Önder, Kemal Sahir Gürel, Kayhan Kalhor mit Alen Hüseyin Gürsoy,Yavuz Gürbüz, Şeyda Sözüer, Veli Ubic, Muhammed Ubic Türkisch/Kurdisch dt. Einsprache · engl. UT · 94 Min
First love is often painful. Still, that’s not going to stop Rauf from showing Zana how much he fancies her. Alas, the eleven-year-old’s advances only elicit amused smiles from the young woman. Fortunately, Rauf has a couple of loyal friends at his side that he can count on for advice and perspective. Undeterred by the tragic consequences of war, or the fact that he’s already dropped out of school to apprentice as a carpenter, the boy holds on to his one hope: Rauf sets off on a quest to find the special colour that symbolizes his love. This turns out to be no trivial undertaking in his snowy little isolated corner of Anatolia. When he finally happens upon the object of his quest, as winter snow gives way to the early flowers of spring, Rauf isn’t a little boy anymore.
Barış Kaya
A graduate of the Anadolu University in Eskişehir, he has worked for film production companies and directed numerous television commercials.
Soner Caner
He worked in the areas of production design, art direction and special effects make-up. Won the award for Best Art Director at the Altin Koza Film Festival in 2009.
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Toz Bezi | Dust Cloth (Mavi Boncuk link)
Ahu Öztürk
Produktion: Ret-Film, Istanbul; Fiction 2.0, Hamburg Buch: Ahu Öztürk Kamera: Meryem Yavuz Mit: Asiye Dinçsoy, Nazan Kesal, Serra Yilmaz, Didem Inselel, Mehmet Özgür, Asel Yalin, Yusuf Ancu Länge: 99 Minuten Sprachen: Türkisch, Kurdisch
Nesrin and Hatun are cleaning ladies in Istanbul. They are friends, neighbours and Kurds. Nesrin has kicked her husband out. It was only intended as a warning, but now he hasn’t returned, and Nesrin and her young daughter Asmin find themselves in increasingly difficult circumstances. To enjoy proper social benefits, Nesrin would need to find a real job. Hatun, on the other hand, dreams the dream of moving up in the world and of a life in the fashionable district of Moda, where she cleans the apartments of her middle-class clients. Her desire is so strong that she, a Muslim, even prays for it in a Christian church. Toz bezi is a sensitive, thoroughly unsentimental portrait of a friendship between two women. But beyond the personal story of their relationship and its conflicts, Ahu Öztürk also paints a picture of an entire society in which social and ethnic origin can be insurmountable obstacles. She shows this almost in passing, in the scenes of Hatun and Nesrin at their clients’ homes. And when the camera follows the two of them moving between Istanbul’s different worlds, it becomes clear that the distance they are traversing is not just geographical.
Anna Hoffmann
Ahu Öztürk (Istanbul, 1976) studied philosophy and cinema. In 2004, she directed her first documentary, Chest. In 2009, she took part in the Festival on Wheels inspired ‘Tales from Kars’ project, directing the short film, Open Wound. This film has since been shown at numerous international film festivals, among them Rotterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Sarajevo and Beirut. Her first feature film project Dust Cloth has been selected to Istanbul Film Festival, Meetings on the Bridge, and won the CNC award. It also received the EAVE Producers’ award at the Sarajevo Film Festival, CineLink. Dust Cloth was one of the three projects that have been selected to Holland Film Meeting. It also received the Ministry of Culture Production support in November 2012.