Cannes 2016 Cinéfondation L'Atelier[1] | Iguana Tokyo and The boarding School
Mavi Boncuk |
IGUANA TOKYO Directed by Kaan MÜJDECİ
Country: TURKEY, GERMANY
Year: 2016
Duration: 90.00 minutes
Director’s previous films: http://www.cinandovl.com/latelier2016
SPECIFICATIONS
Locations and shooting dates: Berlin-Tokyo, 6 weeks
Language film shot in JAPANESE , ENGLISH
Working budget € 2.3 M
Financing acquired € 740 000
SYNOPSIS: What happens, when an ordinary nuclear family lives in different realities in a city that is arguably at its most advanced? What happens when the line between reality and fantasy begins to disappear? When a computer game is (re-) defining the spaces of existence? When a giant green iguana is the observer of their realities?
Iguana Tokyo tells the story of this family who installs a computer game in their small flat in the city of Tokyo. The rule of the game is simple: the one who wins, leads the house and accordingly each one's own room enlarges or shrinks via moving walls. As the computer game becomes the centre of their ordinary lives, the relationship among three starts to shift. Only the Iguana can witness this dangerous tension between the mother, father and their fourteen-year old daughter, Tokyo.
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STATEMENT: « Everything only exists as much as you see and witness it. » In Iguana Tokyo, I attempt to capture the stresses that follow from observing ‘sins’ in a cramped urban home of Japan, a model country of contemporary economic and social progress. The smallest social institution - the family - reproduces itself through sexuality, and is the point of contact of intersecting rules and systems of regulation. Iguana Tokyo offers a depiction of each family member breaking with the moral norms in the city of Tokyo. The iguana's perspective is ideal: it offers a neutrality and an eye to witness everything that happens in the home. The world I want to portray in Iguana Tokyo is a world in which our existence is defined solely by seeing and witnessing.
CONTACTS AND USEFUL LINKS
Production
COLOURED GIRAFFES - Nazli KILERCI
Oranienstr. 34 10999 Berlin GERMANY - nazli.kilerci@gmail.com
THE BOARDING SCHOOL Directed by L.Rezan YESILBAS
Country: TURKEY
Year: 2016
Duration: 100.00 minutes
Director’s previous films: http://www.cinandovl.com/latelier2016
SYNOPSIS: 1981 Diyarbakir. Siyap and his two brothers study in a boarding school in an environment where the effects of the military coup that took a place a year ago are still felt intensely. To the children, the school feels like a military barracks with its tight discipline. When Siyap goes to Diyarbakir to visit his father in prison, a fire breaks out at night. He is detained on his way to the prison and is tortured. Siyap feels the iron hand of the military coup more severely as he steps into adulthood.
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STATEMENT: A story set in Diyarbakir in the 1980's is inevitably with a political background. This script mainly focuses on the experiences of three boys of different ages in a Regional Boarding School (YIBO). For me, it is an important detail how the teachers of the school, who are supposed to teach, turn into guardians with the power of the ruler ship. These regional schools mentioned, functioned as tools for assimilation politics of Kurds for a period. My goal is not to only reflect this historical atmosphere, but to tell a story about children who are on the threshold of losing their innocence. The ways children cope with or give in to power, clever tactics like taking it lightly or joking about it, keep the film away from a heavy political atmosphere.
CONTACTS AND USEFUL LINKS
Production
LIMAN FILM - Nadir OPERLI (link)
Ozogul Sokak N°18 D:12 Cihangir Beyoglu 34427 Istanbul TURKEY - T: +90 53 366 177 37 - info@limanfilm.com - http://www.limanfilm.com
ABOU LEILA Directed by Amin SIDI-BOUMEDIENE
ANIMAS Directed by José F. ORTUNO
DAOUD'S WINTER Directed by Koutaiba AL-JANABI
DEATH IN BED Directed by David VOLACH
FEMME FATALE Directed by Kyoko MIYAKE
LA CORDILLERA Directed by Santiago MITRE
MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS Directed by Mouly SURYA
MEMORIES AND MY MOTHER Directed by Aditya Vikram SENGUPTA
MY FAVORITE FABRIC Directed by Gaya JIJI
NI DIEUX NI MAÎTRES (NO GODS NO MASTERS) Directed by Eric CHERRIÈRE
SEMINA IL VENTO (SOW THE WIND) Directed by Danilo CAPUTO
TANTAS ALMAS Directed by Nicolas RINCON GILLE
THE WHOLE-TIMERS Directed by Pooja GURUNG, Bibhusan BASNET
In 2005, the Festival gave the [1] Cinéfondation the task of organising L'Atelier, a new step in its action to promote the creation of new works.
Each year, L'Atelier selects about fifteen feature length projects from around the world, and invites their directors to the Festival de Cannes in order to put them in contact with film professionals. The filmmakers are selected according to the quality of their project and that of their previous films, as well as on the state of progress of their finance plan. The programme will enable them to gain access to international financing and speed up the production process.
In order to help the selected filmmakers, L'Atelier undertakes to:
- publish a Livre des Projets (Project Brochure) to promote the film projects and present the directors and their producers to film professionals and the media.
- organise appointments with producers, distributors and grant distribution managers in the L'Atelier pavilion, situated in the Village international-Pantiero, in order to meet any shortfall with other already agreed financing. The filmmakers' previous films and screenplays will be made available for consultation.
- associate the selected filmmakers with the daily life of the Festival by providing them with access to the programme of daily Festival screenings, meetings and events.
Mavi Boncuk |
IGUANA TOKYO Directed by Kaan MÜJDECİ
Country: TURKEY, GERMANY
Year: 2016
Duration: 90.00 minutes
Director’s previous films: http://www.cinandovl.com/latelier2016
SPECIFICATIONS
Locations and shooting dates: Berlin-Tokyo, 6 weeks
Language film shot in JAPANESE , ENGLISH
Working budget € 2.3 M
Financing acquired € 740 000
SYNOPSIS: What happens, when an ordinary nuclear family lives in different realities in a city that is arguably at its most advanced? What happens when the line between reality and fantasy begins to disappear? When a computer game is (re-) defining the spaces of existence? When a giant green iguana is the observer of their realities?
Iguana Tokyo tells the story of this family who installs a computer game in their small flat in the city of Tokyo. The rule of the game is simple: the one who wins, leads the house and accordingly each one's own room enlarges or shrinks via moving walls. As the computer game becomes the centre of their ordinary lives, the relationship among three starts to shift. Only the Iguana can witness this dangerous tension between the mother, father and their fourteen-year old daughter, Tokyo.
STATEMENT: « Everything only exists as much as you see and witness it. » In Iguana Tokyo, I attempt to capture the stresses that follow from observing ‘sins’ in a cramped urban home of Japan, a model country of contemporary economic and social progress. The smallest social institution - the family - reproduces itself through sexuality, and is the point of contact of intersecting rules and systems of regulation. Iguana Tokyo offers a depiction of each family member breaking with the moral norms in the city of Tokyo. The iguana's perspective is ideal: it offers a neutrality and an eye to witness everything that happens in the home. The world I want to portray in Iguana Tokyo is a world in which our existence is defined solely by seeing and witnessing.CONTACTS AND USEFUL LINKS
Production
COLOURED GIRAFFES - Nazli KILERCI
Oranienstr. 34 10999 Berlin GERMANY - nazli.kilerci@gmail.com
THE BOARDING SCHOOL Directed by L.Rezan YESILBAS
Country: TURKEY
Year: 2016
Duration: 100.00 minutes
Director’s previous films: http://www.cinandovl.com/latelier2016
SYNOPSIS: 1981 Diyarbakir. Siyap and his two brothers study in a boarding school in an environment where the effects of the military coup that took a place a year ago are still felt intensely. To the children, the school feels like a military barracks with its tight discipline. When Siyap goes to Diyarbakir to visit his father in prison, a fire breaks out at night. He is detained on his way to the prison and is tortured. Siyap feels the iron hand of the military coup more severely as he steps into adulthood.
STATEMENT: A story set in Diyarbakir in the 1980's is inevitably with a political background. This script mainly focuses on the experiences of three boys of different ages in a Regional Boarding School (YIBO). For me, it is an important detail how the teachers of the school, who are supposed to teach, turn into guardians with the power of the ruler ship. These regional schools mentioned, functioned as tools for assimilation politics of Kurds for a period. My goal is not to only reflect this historical atmosphere, but to tell a story about children who are on the threshold of losing their innocence. The ways children cope with or give in to power, clever tactics like taking it lightly or joking about it, keep the film away from a heavy political atmosphere.CONTACTS AND USEFUL LINKS
Production
LIMAN FILM - Nadir OPERLI (link)
Ozogul Sokak N°18 D:12 Cihangir Beyoglu 34427 Istanbul TURKEY - T: +90 53 366 177 37 - info@limanfilm.com - http://www.limanfilm.com
ABOU LEILA Directed by Amin SIDI-BOUMEDIENE
ANIMAS Directed by José F. ORTUNO
DAOUD'S WINTER Directed by Koutaiba AL-JANABI
DEATH IN BED Directed by David VOLACH
FEMME FATALE Directed by Kyoko MIYAKE
LA CORDILLERA Directed by Santiago MITRE
MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS Directed by Mouly SURYA
MEMORIES AND MY MOTHER Directed by Aditya Vikram SENGUPTA
MY FAVORITE FABRIC Directed by Gaya JIJI
NI DIEUX NI MAÎTRES (NO GODS NO MASTERS) Directed by Eric CHERRIÈRE
SEMINA IL VENTO (SOW THE WIND) Directed by Danilo CAPUTO
TANTAS ALMAS Directed by Nicolas RINCON GILLE
THE WHOLE-TIMERS Directed by Pooja GURUNG, Bibhusan BASNET
In 2005, the Festival gave the [1] Cinéfondation the task of organising L'Atelier, a new step in its action to promote the creation of new works.
Each year, L'Atelier selects about fifteen feature length projects from around the world, and invites their directors to the Festival de Cannes in order to put them in contact with film professionals. The filmmakers are selected according to the quality of their project and that of their previous films, as well as on the state of progress of their finance plan. The programme will enable them to gain access to international financing and speed up the production process.
In order to help the selected filmmakers, L'Atelier undertakes to:
- publish a Livre des Projets (Project Brochure) to promote the film projects and present the directors and their producers to film professionals and the media.
- organise appointments with producers, distributors and grant distribution managers in the L'Atelier pavilion, situated in the Village international-Pantiero, in order to meet any shortfall with other already agreed financing. The filmmakers' previous films and screenplays will be made available for consultation.
- associate the selected filmmakers with the daily life of the Festival by providing them with access to the programme of daily Festival screenings, meetings and events.