TRIBUTE TO TUNC BASARAN
ONE AND THE OTHERS / BIRI VE DIGERLERI Directed by: Tunç Başaran Cast Aytaç Arman, Meral Oğuz, Sharon Sinclair Year and Country of Production Turkey, 1987 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 90’ Language Turkish / French s.t. | ’87 Antalya Special Jury Prize ’88 İstanbul Best Film
Synopsis: Just another person on just another day, sets off early in the morning. There’s something pursuing him, something that he wants but is afraid of, unaware that it can fill his life with beauty: His happiness. He pursues it not knowing that it’s right by his side. There’s a hevay rain. Barış gets refuge from the rain in a bar and starts to wait for an unknown woman and meets a beautiful woman he did not expect.
DON’T LET THEM SHOOT THE KITE / UÇURTMAYI VURMASINLAR Directed by: Tunç Başaran Cast Nur Sürer, Ozan Bilen, Rozet Hubeş Year and Country of Production Turkey, 1989 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 100’ Language Turkish / French s.t. |’90 İstanbul Best Film ’90 Antalya Best Film Best Screenplay ’90 Valencia Best Second Film ’90 Lion Grand Prix ’90 Berlin Best FilmSynopsis: Inci is a political prisoner, and five-year-old Barış is the son of a common prisoner. He grew up in prison as there’s no one to take care of him outside. He gets to know nature, the world outside and love through İnci. His outside world consists of the small piece of sky viewed from the courtyard. A kite he sees one morning in this tiny sky excites him, and freedom for Barış becomes “To fly a kite with İnci”.
PIANO PIANO KID / PİANO PİANO BACAKSIZ Directed by: Tunç Başaran Cast Rutkay Aziz, Serap Aksoy, Emin Sivas Year and Country of Production Turkey, 1991 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 85’ Language Turkish / English s.t. ’91 İstanbul Best Director
Synopsis: Little Kemal remembers an old Istanbul house in the 40s and happy people living in it, surrounded by warm affection, despite all the destitution and hunger. Could the ray of light falling on the well in the backyard change their lives like a magic? Would those who remember concepts which have now almost dissappeared like co-operation, relience, love and respect and say “It’s a bliss to live in a world of love?”
PLEASE DON'T GO / SEN DE GİTME TRİYANDİFİLİS Directed by: Tunç Başaran Cast Işık Yenersu, Fikret Hakan, Olivia Bonamy Year and Country of Production Turkey, 1996 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 107' Language Turkish / English s.t. | ’97 Antalya Best Second Film Best Director Best Actress (Işık Yenersu) ’97 Adana Best Film Best Director Best Actress (Işık Yenersu) ’97 Ankara Best Second Film ’97 İskenderiye Best Actress (Işık Yenersu) Antakya,
Synopsis: Turkey in the 1930’s. A wide spectrum of nationalities and religions. Mr Antoine of Greek origin lives in a big house and of all his children he loves his eldest daughter Triandafilis most. The lovely Triandafilis has the mind of a 10-year-old. Both Mr Antoine and the housekeeper Sultan are afraid that the girl will run away and get lost. Then Triandafilis spots Pierre of the French army and falls in love.
GRADUATE OF INSANITY / KAÇIKLIK DİPLOMASI Directed by: Tunç Başaran Cast Ayda Aksel, Selçuk Yöntem, Güler Ökten Year and Country of Production Turkey-France-Hungary, 1998 Technical Information 35 mm / Color / 101’ Language Turkish / English s.t.
Synopsis: Nur is the daughter of a right-wing member of parliament. In spite of her family’s affluence, she hasn’t had a happy childhood. Marrying her love, the charismatic student leader Murat, does not help much. Murat is lazy, irresponsible and their little boy is killed in a car accident in which he was driving. Nur is diagnosed as manic-depressive and is institutionalized. “Graduate Insanity” is based on a true story.
NÂZIM HİKMET IS 100 YEARS OLD
21st International Istanbul Film Festival will screen 3 documentaries to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the birth of the great Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet within the section “Nazım Hikmet is 100-year-old”.
NÂZIM HİKMET DOCUMENTARY / NÂZIM HİKMET BELGESELİ Directed by: Can Dündar Cast - Year and Country of Production Turkey, 2002 Technical Information Betacam Video / Color / 90’ Language Turkish / English s.t.
Can Dündar, in this documentary the text of which he wrote as well, brings foreward the “years of yearning” Nazım Hikmet spent outside his country and his being a “poet of the world”. The film depiscts the years between his escape from Istanbul on June 17th. 1951 to his death on January 15th in Moscow. The original score is by Fazıl Say, the poems are recited by Genco Erkal. B 22 Mon. 19:00
BİR AŞK MASALI / MY LOVE MY SORROW Directed by: Ejder İbrahimov Cast Türkan Şoray, Yılmaz Duru, Faruk Peker Year and Country of Production Russia, 1978 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color Language -
Synopsis:Ferhat, a crafted engraver, takes over an important duty entrusted to him by Mehmene Banu, to come together with his love, the beautiful Shirin. First he should bear a hole in the mountains and bring water to the denizens. Ferhat, who pierces the mountains strengthened by his love, is finally rewarded. MY LOVE MY SORROW becomes more intense with the contribution of the Bolshoi Ballet. B 17 Wed. 21:30
NÂZIM HİKMET, CAMARADE POEM / NÂZIM HİKMET, CAMARADE POÈSIE Directed by: Lulu Menase Cast - Year and Country of Production France, 2000 Technical Information Betacam Video / Color / 46’ Language
Synopsis: Nazım Hikmet was born in 1902 at Salonique. In 1921 he engaged himself in the fight for the independence. A year later he left for Moscow to study economy and sociology. He came back to Istanbul in 1928 to work in the press and publish his first work. As from 1928, he was imprisoned twice and convicted to 35 years in 1938. After 13 years, he started a hunger-strike in prison. B 21 Sun. 21:30 / B 22 Mon. 16:00
NÂZIM HIKMET - DICHTER UND REVOLUTIONÄR / NÂZIM HIKMET - POET AND REVOLUTIONARY Directed by: Dieter Oeckl Cast - Year and Country of Production Germany, 1994 Technical Information Betacam Video / Color / 57’ Language German-Turkish-Russian; Turkish s.t.
Vera, Galina, Yasar Kemal, Abidin Dino, Ibrahim Balaban and Refik Erduran are among the names who participate in the interviews of this documentary on Nâzim Hikmet’s life, produced by the German television WDR / adorned with the poet’s works from his own voice and with music by Zülfü Livaneli.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
FATE Directed by: Zeki Demirkubuz Cast Serdar Orçin, Zeynep Tokuş, Engin Günaydın Year and Country of Production Turkey / 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 120' Language Turkish / Englisg s.t. 2001 Antalya Best Director Best Actor (Serdar Orçin) 2001 Ankara En İyi Kadın Oyuncu Best Actress (Zeynep Tokuş) Best Supporting Actor (Engin Günaydın)
Synopsis:The screenplay of FATE has been inspired by Albert Camus’ “Stranger”, which narrates the story of a bookkeeper who rejects to use his will. Musa who works in customs office and believes in the absurdity of life in general. But he doesn’t struggle to change this life. FATE, the first film of the “Tales About Darkness” trilogy, describes the story of a person who feels guilty without any reason. E 24 Wed. 16:00 » Programme » International Competition » FATE
TURKISH NATIONAL CINEMA
MARUF Directed by: Serdar Akar Cast Meltem Cumbul, Ruhi Sarı Year and Country of Production Turkey, 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 105’ Language Turkish / English s.t.
Synopsis: Maruf is just a young man from Anatolia who’s in love and who wants to marry as soon as possible. Just because of wickedness, he is deemed responsible from the destroyal of his mother, his uncle, his uncle’s wife and the girl he loves. He suffers with them, even though he has not caused any of it. How do customs, fate, justice, law of nature work, and for whom? MARUF deals with all sorts of customs.
THE WATERFALL / ŞELLALE Directed by: Semir Aslanyürek Cast Hülya Koçyiğit, Tuncel Kurtiz, Aykut Oray Year and Country of Production Turkey, 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 120’ Language Turkish / English s.t. ’99 Kodak-Antrakt Senaryo Yarismasi: En Iyi Senaryo 2002 SIYAD Ödülleri: En Iyi Görüntü Film
Synopsis:In 1960, just before the military intervention of May 27th, the Harbiye county of Antakya. Cemal’s father and uncle are in continuous struggle, as they are members of two different political parties. The two brothers divide the courtyard common to both their houses by building a high wall. On the other hand, there’s a dream narrating tradition in the town, as “dreams are only told to flowing water.”
CONFESSION / İTİRAF" Directed by: Zeki Demirkubuz Cast Taner Birsel, Başak Köklükaya Year and Country of Production Turkey, 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 90’ Language Turkish / English s.t. 2001 Ankara Best Director Special Jury Prize
Synopsis: Harun, Nilgün and Taylan are friends. Taylan gets ill after he marries Nilgün, then shoots himself. Harun and Nilgün get married after of Taylan’s death. Seven years pass. Harun suddenly decides to return to their house in Ankara from Istanbul where he is on business. His is wife is not home, he thinks she’s betraying him. Now he has only one purpose: To have Nilgün to confess her betrayal.
WISH ME LUCK / BANA ŞANS DİLE" Directed by: Çağan Irmak Cast Deniz Uğur, Volkan Severcan, Nilgün Belgün Year and Country of Production Turkey, 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 88’ Language Turkish / English s.t.
Synopsis: Introverted, noncommunicative, awkward high school student Bahadır decides to change the world when he wakes up one morning. That day he takes his class as hostage by intimidating them with the gun that he took with him while going to school. Bahadır forces them to narrate memories of what hurt them most. An action-thriller on inter-familial violence, lack of love and communiciation, and the wrong road taken.
"HEJAR / BÜYÜK ADAM KÜÇÜK AŞK" Directed by: Handan İpekçi Cast Şükran Güngör, Dilan Erçetin, Füsun Demirel Year and Country of Production Turkey-Greece-Hungary, 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 120’ Language Turkish-Kurdish, English s.t. 2001 Antalya Best Film Best Screenplay Best Supporting Actress (Füsun Demirel) Best Supporting Actor (İsmail Hakkı Şen) Special Jury Award for the lead actress (Dilan Erçetin) 2001 Ankara Best Actor (Şükran Güngör) Best Supporting Actress (Füsun Demirel) Most Promising New Actress (Dilan Erçetin) 2002 Film Critics’ Association Best Actor (Şükran Güngör) Best Supporting Actress (Füsun Demirel) Best Supporting Actor (İsmail Hakkı Şen)
Synopsis: Mr. Rıfat, a retired judge of around 75, is getting ready to go and live in an old people’s home. Hejar is left by fellow-villager Abdülkadir at her uncle’s house as she’s lost all her relatives in a an operation on the village. Their paths cross in Istanbul. Hejar escapes a police raid through luck and enters Mr Rıfat’s house next door. Injured and in shock, the 5-year-old child is Kurdish and does not speak word of Turkish. A film in which ethnic difference loose their importance in the profoundss of human relations.
THE PHOTOGRAPH / FOTOĞRAF Directed by: Kazım Öz Cast Feyyaz Duman, Nazmi Kırık, Mizgin Kapazan Year and Country of Production Turkey, 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 66’ Language Turkish-Kurdish, English s.t. 2001 Milano Best Film
Synopsis: Two youths, about to join the conflicting sides of a war, meet at a voyage. The road shared, the trace left by cigarettes and distress lives on as a song on the photograph where friendship turns into enmity, on a front of the intense war. PHOTOGRAPH is a film wanting to discuss the possibility of friendship, and the marks left in society by militarism, the reality of the dirty war, and unseen sufferings.
SUMMER LOVE / O DA BENİ SEVİYOR Directed by: Barış Pirhasan Cast Ece Ekşi, Lale Mansur, Luk Piyes Year and Country of Production Turkey-Hungary, 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 102’ Language Turkish / English s.t. 2001 Antalya The Third Best Film (Behlül Dal: Special Award) Best Editing; Special Jury Prize (Ece Eksi) 2002 SIYAD Ödülleri: Umut Veren Kadin Oyuncu (Ece Eksi)
Synopsis:Summer of 1973, Malatya. Esma, in seventh grade, is exiled to the house of Kemal, her father’s army friend, due to the Fs in her report card. That day Kemal’s sister Saliha, who had ran off years ago with the man she loved, has returned home. Esma is happy. Saliha has been her favourite “aunt” since childhood, her role model. Esma feels an interest in young Hüseyin, a friend of the family, that she cannot name. INNOWHERELAND / HİÇBİRYERDE "
INNOWHERELAND / HİÇBİRYERDE Directed by: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu Cast Zuhal Olcay, Parkan Özturan, Meral Okay Year and Country of Production Turkey-Germany, 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 90’ Language Turkish / English s.t. Şükran is a forty-year-old woman working at the booking office at the Haydarpaşa terminal station. Her only son Veysel works in a wire drawing workshop. Şükran, who has suffered greatly as her dead husband was mixed in political events, is trying to protect her son from such activities. But one day Veysel disappears, Şükran’s attempts at finding him are to no avail, and the authorities don’t help her.
MIRROR / AYNA Directed by: Hakan Şahin Cast Uğur Polat, Ljubo Bakic, Travis Vanhill Year and Country of Production Turkey-Hungary, 2002 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 80’ Language English-Turkish / English s.t.
Synopsis:A student still suffering the loss of his drowned brother as a child, has arrived in Canada a year ago for his master. However, his insufficient foreign language and financial difficulties drive him to look for a temporary job. On the recommendation of a friend, he finds a two-month job in Zaza, a small village 1,000 kms from the city. MIRROR is the story of a person confronting the fear of death.
9 Directed by: Ümit Ünal Cast Ali Poyrazoğlu, Cezmi Baskın, Serra Yılmaz Year and Country of Production Turkey, 2002 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 90’ Language Turkish / English s.t.
Synopsis: A poor neighborhood of Istanbul. A young, homeless girl is killed in a gory murder. Nobody knows where she comes from, although there are many rumors. Six people from the neighborhood are interrogated by the police and they tell us their biased versions of the history of the neighborhood, in addition to the story of the murder. 9 is a story about everyday fascism in the lives of ordinary people. 9 is the first Turkish film which has been shot and edited entirely in digital video and transferred to 35 mm.
WILDHEART – HELL OF BOOMERANG / DELİ YÜREK – BUMERANG CEHENNEMİ Directed by: Osman Sınav Cast Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Melda Pekcan, Selçuk Yöntem Year and Country of Production Turkey, 2001 Technical Information 35 mm. / Color / 120’ Language Turkish / English s.t.
Synopsis: Yusuf Miroğlu, a veteran of southeastern unrest, travels to Diyarbakır for the wedding of his friend. Cemal welcomes Yusuf and his fiancé, Zeynep. This wedding is a symbol for the hope for peace, as it will bring together two families feeling enmity towards each other as a consequence of the unrest in the region. However, it’s not all past and Cemal is shot dead at his wedding day. » Programme » Out of Competition » WILDHEART – HELL OF BOOMERANG / DELİ YÜREK – BUMERANG CEHENNEMİ
(posted February 26,2002)
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