Mavi Boncuk |ForumKumun tadi | Seaburners Dir: Melisa Önel
Turkey 2014, 89 min | Turkish, English
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A harsh wintery scene on the Turkish Black Sea coast. Denise, a foreign botanist, has ended up here for research purposes. She stoically trudges through water knee-deep to get to the remote site where she cultivates her plants. With the same resolve and fearlessness, she also makes her way through the night to the secluded cabin where she meets her lover Hamit. He is a have-not who has only remained in this desolate region following a failed attempt to set up a livelihood abroad. And because of his relationship with Denise. It’s a dilemma, since Hamit cannot let her know that he works as a human trafficker, making a living by helping others flee to Europe. But Denise is tired of his mysterious behaviour. When she is called back to her home country and one of Hamit’s jobs spirals out of control, he makes a decision that ends in catastrophe.
Rich in ellipses and pointedly non-linear, Melisa Önel’s poignant debut film leaves much literally in the dark. Its striking, sombre images correspond to a world of little hope or solidarity, in which a state of inner displacement prevails.
Türkei 2014
89 Min. · DCP, 1:1.85 · Farbe
Regie, Buch Melisa Önel
Buch Feride Çiçekoğlu
Kamera Julian Atanassov, Meryem Yavuz
Schnitt Özcan Vardar
Musik Erdem Helvacioglu
Sound Design Umut Senyol
Ton Petar Kralev, Fatih Aydogdu
Production Design Ismail Durmaz
Kostüm Yunus Harani
Produzenten Yamaç Okur, Bulut Film,
Asli Erdem, Bulut Film
Co-Produzent M. Çagatay Tosun, Yedi Film
Darsteller
Mira Furlan (Denise)
Timuçin Esen (Hamit)
Ahmet Rifat Sungar (Mehmet)
Sanem Öge (Basima)
Uzunyilmaz Ali (Mustafa)
Edanur Tekin (Sonya)
Hakan Karsak (Fehmi)
Selen Uçer (Selda)
Produktion
Bulut Film
Istanbul, Türkei
+90 212 2839792
info@bulutfilm.com
Yedi Film
Istanbul, Türkei
info@yedifilm.com.tr
international relations at Tufts University, and
film studies at Istanbul’s Bilgi University. She
took part in the 2008 Berlinale Talent Campus.
She works as a director and photographer.
Filmography
2007 Omega Fox; 14 Min.
2009
Me and Nuri Bala; 43 Min.
2014 Kumun tadı / Seaburners