TIFF 2019: Midnight Madness, doc and Discovery slates announced . So far only one Turkish film made it to the Festival schedule
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2019
TIFF | DISCOVERY
The Antenna (Bina)
Orçun Behram | Turkey
World Premiere
115 minutes
The inhabitants of an apartment building are caught in a living nightmare when a radical, new communications technology goes horribly awry, in Orçun Behram’s frightening and visceral feature debut.
Director: Orçun Behram
Cast: Ihsan ÖNAL, Gül ARICI
Producer(s): Orçun BEHRAM (Lucidlab Films), Müge ÖZEN (Solis Film)[1]
SYNOPSIS: In a dystopian Turkey, the Government installs new networks throughout the country to monitor information. The installation goes wrong in a crumbling apartment complex and Mehmet, the building intendant, will have to confront the evil entity behind the inexplicable transmissions that threaten the residents.
Filmography
Ejakülasyon (2002)
Yara İzleri (2003)
Column (2005)
Fotoroman (2008)
Mongolia (2015)
Sri-Lanka: People's Story (2016)
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Beyoğlu / İstanbul
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[1] SOLIS FILM is a Turkish production company founded in 2015 to develop and produce arthouse films which have international potential. The company favors working with female writers/ directors.
First project of the company is involved is a Bulgarian-Polish-Turkish co-production, "RADIOGRAM" (dir. Rouzie Hassanova). Solis Film acted as a minority co-producer. The film opened in Haifa Film Festival in October 2017
The company is developing Nathalie Sejean's first feature film "IN FIVE YEARS". The project has been selected to 69th Locarno Film Festival's Match Me! Section and 54th Antalya Film Festival's Film Forum as well as EAVE Producers Workshop 2017.
SOLIS FILM is the main producer of Nisan Dag's (Across the Sea, 2014) new film "WHEN I'M DONE DYING”. The project was selected to 2017 editions of Connecting Cottbus and Berlinale Co-Production Market. It recently received a support of 100,000 Euros from Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund.
Filmography
Completed:
2017 "Radiogram", co-producer, feature film, in competition in Sofia Film Festival, opened in competition in Haifa International Film Festival,Best Debut Film Award in Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival, screened in Dubai FF and in Istanbul FF
In Post-Production:
“Chloe 3.0”, producer, short film, dir. Nathalie Sejean
In Financing Status::
"When I'm Done Dying", producer, feature film, dir. Nisan Dag, shooting in November 2018
In Development:
"In 5 Years", producer, feature film, dir. Nathalie Sejean
“Everything In Its Right Place”, co-producer, feature film, dir. Berrak Çolak
“Selam Berlin”, co-producer, feature film, dir. Carsten Fiebeler
SOURCE:Variety)
PHOTO CREDIT: GERALDINE ARESTEANU
Muge Ozen started her career in the film business as a buyer for Turkish distributors D Productions and Mars Entertainment Group before becoming an executive producer, and eventually launching her own production shingle, Solis Film, in 2015. The company is dedicated to producing arthouse films that can travel internationally, favouring female writers and directors Solis Film’s first project was ”Radiogram,” a first feature by Bulgarian director Rouzie Hassanova set in Bulgaria during the early 70’s when the communist regime considered rock’n’roll a national threat. This Bulgarian-Turkish-Polish co-production bowed earlier this year at the Haifa Film Festival. Among other projects Ozen has subsequently been developing is “In 5 Years” a concept pic by French-Lebanese first-timer Nathalie Sejean, which has been making the co-production platform rounds, and “When I’m Done Dying” the sophomore project of U.S.-based Turkish director Nisan Dag whose first feature “Across The Sea,” co-directed with Esra Saydam, scored multiple nods on the fest circuit, including Slamdance. A teen relationship drama set amid Istanbul’s hip-hop scene, “When I’m Done Dying,” was selected earlier this year by Cinephilia Bound in Cannes and Mexico’s Cine Qua Non Script Lab, among other support initiatives, and is now among the Antalya Film Forum’s Pitching Platform projects. “Our main goal is to show how the hiphop culture, which originated in the U.S., is embodied in a Middle Eastern and Muslim setting,” says Ozen.