Mavi Boncuk |Generation 14plusMavi Dalga | The Blue Wave
Dir: Zeynep Dadak, Merve Kayan
Turkey / Germany / Netherlands / Greece 2013, 97 min, Turkish
Whenever Deniz and her girlfriends get together, nothing can threaten their world. They gossip about clothes, boys, music and who met who. Deniz really likes her schoolmate Kaya, but she’s much more excited by the thought of one of her teachers, Fırat, who is significantly older. The fact that he doesn’t appear to reciprocate her feelings plunges Deniz into turmoil. The girls will soon have to decide what they want to study and which university to attend. Deniz has a particular subject in mind: she feels much more drawn to philosophy than economics. But she’s also interested in studying something practical, such as reforestation. Although most of her friends want to go to Istanbul, she’d rather study in Ankara – the main thing is to get away from home where she’s at loggerheads with her mother.
The film makes use of its strong young female cast to convey the multifaceted, contradictory feeling of being on the cusp between one’s youth and an uncertain future. Regular power cuts and gas shortages seem to herald a sense of impending insecurity. Deniz knows just how good it feels to let herself go once more with her girlfriends at the beach.
Türkei/Deutschland/Niederlande/
Griechenland 2013
97 Min. · DCP, 1:1.85 · Farbe
Regie, Buch Zeynep Dadak, Merve Kayan
Kamera Daniël Bouquet
Schnitt Çiçek Kahraman
Musik kim ki o
Sound Design Kostas Varibopiotis
Ton Jeffrey Grieshober
Production Design Nadide Argun
Kostüm Aslı Dadak
Maske Ebru Süren
Casting Ezgi Baltaş
Regieassistenz Ulaş Parlakyıldız
Produktionsleitung Zümrüt Burul,
Kaan Kurbanoğlu
Produzent Yamaç Okur
Co-Produzenten Floor Onrust,
Michael Eckelt, Nikos Moutselos,
Zeynep Dadak, Merve Kayan
Co-Produktion Family Affair Films,
Amsterdam; Riva Film, Hamburg; Two Thirty
Five, Athen
Darsteller
Ayris Alptekin (Deniz)
Onur Saylak (Fırat)
Barış Hacıhan (Kaya)
Albina Özden (Esra)
Nazlı Bulum (Gül)
Begüm Akkaya (Perin)
Sefa Tokgöz (Güney)
Fehime Seven (Aylin)
Derya Durmaz (Nevin)
Cüneyt Yalaz (Yusuf)
Sude Aslantaş (Defne)
Produktion
Bulut Film
Istanbul, Türkei
+90 212 2839792
info@bulutfilm.com
Weltvertrieb
siehe Produktion
Zeynep Dadak Born in Balıkesir, Turkey, she is currently studying for a doctorate in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University and also working as a film journalist. Since 2001 she has made a number of short films, music videos and documentaries.
Filmography | Zeynep Dadak
2001 Use Your Head; Kurzfilm
2004 The Roundtrip; Kurzfilm
2007 For the Record: World Tribunal on Iraq; Dokumentarfilm
2010 On the Coast; Dokumentarfilm · Elope; Kurz-Musical
2013 Mavi Dalga
Merve Kayan Born in Uzunköprü in Turkey in 1981, after attending a boarding school in Istanbul she moved to the USA to study film at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Since 1999 she has been collaborating with various filmmakers and artists making short films and videos, also working as a freelance video
producer in New York and Istanbul.
Filmography | Merve Kayan
2005 Sweet Splits;
Video-Installation
2006 Ah; Kurzfilm
2008 Work; Video-Installation
2010 On the Coast;
Dokumentarfilm · Elope; Kurz-Musical
2013 Mavi Dalga