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THREE MONKEYS ÜÇ MAYMUNTurkey, France, Italy, 2008, HDCAM/35mm, 104’, colour

director Nuri Bilge Ceylan script Ebru Ceylan, Ercan Kesal, Nuri Bilge Ceylan photography Gökhan Tiryaki editing Ayhan Ergürsel, Bora Gökşingöl,Nuri Bilge Ceylan cast Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rıfat Sungar, Ercan Kesal, Cafer Köse, Gürkan Aydınproduction Zeynep Özbatur, Zeyno Film (Turkey), Pyramide Films (France), BIM Distribuzione (Italy) world sales Eric Lagesse, Pyramide International 5, rue du Chevalier de Saint George 75008 Paris T: +33 1 4296 0220 F: +33 1 4020 [email protected]

A family dislocated when small failings blow up into extravagant lies battles against the odds to stay together by covering up the truth... In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does playing Three Monkeys invalidate the truth of its existence

Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul in 1959. He studied filmmaking for two years at the Mimar Sinan University, after receiving his B.S. from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Bosphorus University. His first short film Cocoon (1995), was screened at the 48th Cannes Film Festival. He won many national and international awards for his feature debut the Small Town (1997) and for his next film Clouds of May (1999). Distant (2002) with which he won the Grand Jury Prize Award at Cannes, is the third feature film he directed. His fourth feature Climates was selected for Competition in Cannes and won the Fipresci Prize.

filmography1995 Koza Cocoon (short)1997 Kasaba The Small Town1999 Mayıs Sıkıntısı Clouds of May2002 Uzak Distant2006 İklimler Climates

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120Turkey, 2008, 35mm, 120’, colour

director Murat Saraçoğlu, Özhan Erenscript Özhan Erenphotography Mustafa Kuşçu editing Kemalettin Osmanlı, Ali Üstündağmusic Özhan Erencast Özge Özberk, Burak Sergen, Cansel Elçin, Emin Olcay, Demir Karahan, Ahmet Uz, Oytun Öztamur, Alican Yılmazproduction Özhan Erendistribution Mehmet Soyarslan, Özen Film, Atıf Yılmaz Cad. No: 11 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 293 70 70 F: +90 212 244 28 51 [email protected] www.ozenfilm.com.tr

In 1914, the World War I broke out in Europe. The war spread to Turkey and the Russians attacked Eastern Anatolia in the region of Erzurum. In Van, a city rife with rebellion, the gendarme division left the city for the struggle with the Russians on the Caucasian front, a struggle between life and death…. In December 1914, as the Battle of Sarıkamış began, the fighting intensified and one day the gendarme division found its ammunition exhausted. There was ammunition in Van, albeit a minimal amount; they wanted to send it to the soldiers at the front, but not even the crudest of carts was left in the city. Anyone who could hold a rifle was fighting at the front. As a result, children between the ages of 12 and 17 volunteered. They immediately undertook preparations and 120 children loaded ammunition on their backs in the freezing month of January 1915 and began to march towards the snowy mountains.

Murat Saraçoğlu was born in Istanbul in 1970. He studied at the Radio and Television Department of Istanbul University. He has directed several television series, as well as writing a book of short stories for which he won a prize.

Özhan Eren was born in Istanbul in 1959 and graduated from the Cartography Department of Ankara University. He began his film career as a composer and has won many awards. He has also released three albums.

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ARATurkey, 2007, 35mm, 89’, colour

director-script Ümit Ünalphotography Gökhan Atılmış editing Çiçek Kahramanmusic Özgür Yılmaz (Kaptanizade Ali Rıza, Erik Satie)cast Erdem Akakçe, Betül Çobanoğlu, Serhat Tutumluer, Selen Ucer, Suna Selen production Ümit Ünal, Mustafa Uslu Dijital Sanatlardistribution Ersan Çongar, Bir Film, Ayhan Işık Sok. Özverim Apt. 32/1 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 251 82 04 F: +90 212 251 82 95 [email protected] www.birfilm.com awards Special Jury Prize, Best Actor Istanbul

In Turkish, ‘ara’ can variously mean ‘gap’, ‘break’, ‘space between’, ‘distance’, or ‘search!’. Ara is the story of four people who love and cheat each other at the same time. They hurt each other but can’t break up; they are caught between the past and their stormy relationships, between Istanbul and the ‘homes’ they can’t get back, between their lies and innermost secrets, between east and west. They are stuck in the ‘space between’.The action unfolds in a single location, a flat, and the camera leaves only once. But various other visuals - from commercials and TV series for instance - sneak into the film. Spanning around 10 years, the story is told in intervals between these visuals.

Ümit Ünal was born in 1965. He has written the screenplays for eight feature films. His debut feature as a director was Nine (2002), which won many awards on the international film festival circuit and was Turkey’s official foreign language film selection for the Academy Awards in 2003. He wrote and co-directed his second feature film Istanbul Tales in 2004. Ara is his third film as director and he is currently working on his fourth, Shadowless, an adaptation of the novel by Hasan Ali Toptaş. He has also published one book of short stories and two novels.

filmography2002 9 Nine2004 Anlat Istanbul Istanbul Tales

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BROKEN ANGEL MELEĞİN SIRLARITurkey, USA, 2008, 35mm, 105’, colour

director Aclan Bates Büyüktürkoğluscript Leslie Bates Büyüktürkoğluphotography Neil Lisk music Kemal Günüçediting Bayard Stryker, Radu Ioncast Nehir Erdoğan, Jay Karnes, Patrick Muldoon, Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu, Nilüfer Açıkalınproduction-distribution Leslie Bates Büyüktürkoğlu, Kevin Corchiani, Chris Moore, Cihangir Safyurtlu, 12454 Sarah St. Studio City, CA, USA T: +90 538 840 00 51 [email protected] www.brokenangelfilm.com

Sermin spends her savings to send her daughter to Los Angeles, the City of Angels, hoping that Ebru will earn one of two things that will save her future: either the ability to speak English or a handsome – and rich – American husband. But the life of an immigrant in America is not as it seems – nor are the “beautiful people” Ebru meets – and she very quickly finds that the facade is not only deceiving, it’s dangerous and drags her down to a place that she had never seen on “Friends” or “The Young & the Restless.” Ebru struggles to find a way to fit her own cultural values into her new life, but finds they clash more than she expected. And her inability to communicate with the people around her creates an ever-widening gap between her and her new home.

Aclan Bates Büyüktürkoğlu graduated from Hacettepe University Conservatory of Performing Arts Theatre Department and received an MA in Directing for Theatre and another in Theatre Education. He was a leading actor for the Turkish National Theatre in Ankara playing major roles. He moved to California and completed an MFA in Film Directing at American Film Institute. Broken Angel is his first feature.

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DOT NOKTATurkey, 2008, 35mm, 89’, colour

director-script Derviş Zaimphotography Ercan Yılmaz music Mazlum Çimencast Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu, Serhat Kılıç, Settar Tanrıöğen, Şener Kökkaya, Mustafa Uzunyılmaz, Nadi Güler, Numan Acarproduction Marathon Film, Sarmaşık Sanatlardistribution Sarmaşık Sanatlar, Silahşör Cad. Madenci Apt. 20-22, D 4, Bomonti, Şişli Istanbul T: +90 212 219 53 35 F: +90 212 219 53 34 [email protected] award Best Director Istanbul

Derviş Zaim’s latest film recounts the tale of a man tormented by a crime he once committed and now anxious to redeem himself. Prevailed upon by a friend, Ahmet is reluctantly involved in the theft of an invaluable antique Quran. However, this act pushes him into unwanted and unfamiliar territory. The action of the film, which advances along an axis of crime and punishment, organically incorporates one of Turkey’s traditional art forms, calligraphy, into the story. Strikingly, calligraphy marks both language and content in the film’s structure as a single, fluid shot. Dot follows on the heels of Waiting for Heaven, a film woven around the traditional art of miniature painting.

Derviğ Zaim (1964) graduated from Bosphorus University with a degree in manage-ment and went on to earn an MA in film and cultural studies from the University of Warwick in the UK. The first feature he wrote and directed, Somersault in a Coffin, won several national and international awards. He followed this up with the award-winning Elephants and Grass and Mud, which won an award at Venice. He currently teaches film at Istanbul’s Bilgi and Bosphorus Universities.

filmography1996 Tabutta Rövaşata Somersault in a Coffin2000 Filler ve Çimen Elephants and Grass2003 Çamur Mud2004 Parallel Yolculuklar Paralel Trips (documentary)2006 Cenneti Beklerken Waiting for Heaven

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selected filmography1987 Biri ve Diğerleri One and the Others1988 Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite1991 Piano Piano Bacaksız Piano Piano Kid1996 Sen de Gitme Please Don’t Go1998 Kaçıklık Diploması Graduate of Insanity

ETCETERA ETCETERA VESAİRE VESAİRE Turkey, 2007, 35mm, 108’, colour

director Tunç Başaranscript Roksen Lülü, Orhan Lülüphotography Alper Derli editing Aytekin Birkonmusic Malabadi Bandcast Rutkay Aziz, Roksen Lülü, Aliye Uzunatağan, Bülent Kayabaş, Taner Barlas, Eser Aliproduction Tunç Başarandistribution Roksen Lülü, Erguvan Sok. Enis Apt. No: 21/6 Kalamış Kadıköy Istanbul T: +90 535 771 71 25 F: +90 212 211 29 20 [email protected]

Arda is a famous author. One day, his doctor tells him that he has cancer. The unexpected news comes as a shock and forces him into introspection. He opts out of big city life and travels to the Aegean region of Turkey. At the same time, an invitation to a conference in a neighbouring town persuades him to go to the lovely summer resort of Marmaris. There, he happens to adopt a dog called Tramp, which in turn leads him to the dog’s owner, a young flamenco dancer and literature graduate. Their meeting is life-changing for them both. Already an ardent admirer of Arda as a writer, Eda quickly falls in love with him. However, the age difference plays on Arda’s mind even if it doesn’t trouble Eda.

Tunç Bağaran (1938) is a screenwriter, director, producer and actor. After studying literature at university for a while, he left to work as a script writer for the director Memduh Ün. Meanwhile, he also worked as an AD to such directors as Ömer Lütfi Akad, Halit Refiğ, Atıf Yılmaz and Ertem Göreç. In 1964, he directed his first feature Survival. In the next eight years, he directed almost 40 films. After 1972, he shifted his focus more towards shooting commercials.

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A FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION HAZAN MEVSİMİ, BİR PANAYIR HİKAYESİTurkey, 2007, 35mm, 113’, colour

director Mehmet Eryılmazscript Mehmet Eryılmazphotography Behiç Gülsaçan editing Mehmet Eryılmaz, Taner Sarfmusic Taner Sarfcast Zümrüt Erkin, Fatih Al, Erol Babaoğluproduction-distribution Mehmet Eryılmaz, Çan Film, 8. Gazeteciler Sitesi A6 No: 4, Akatlar Istanbul T: +90 212 325 61 41 F: +90 212 269 30 25 [email protected] www.can-film.com

This poignant story of two despairing lovers unfolds around a fairground. It is the story of Cemal, a labourer jobbing at the road works near the fairground, and Nurşen, a singer who takes the stage from one fairground to the next. Both are incapable of settling down; both live life like a rolling stone, wandering wherever the wind may blow. A Fairground Attraction is a modern-day fairy tale, an eloquent and meticulously observed account of the vanishing world of fairgrounds. Enriched with outstanding visuals of the fairground, the film interprets the volatile emotional lives of these marginal people with honesty, warmth and humanity.

Mehmet Eryılmaz graduated from the Radio and Television Department of Marmara University. He continued his studies as a postgraduate student at the Cinema and Television Department of Mimar Sinan University. He then began working as a stills photographer and assistant director for the local film industry. Before long, he was writing and directing his own short, experimental and documentary films, as well as commercials and music videos. Eryılmaz has also earned recognition for his docu-mentary series on traditional Turkish music.

filmography1991 Sessiz Silent (short)1993 Seviyorum Ergosum I Love, Therefore I Am (experimental)1994 Geleneksel Türk Müziği Ustaları Serisi Traditional Turkish Music Masters Series (documentary)1995 Bedr-Sinemada Bir Dolunay Bedr-A Full Moon in Cinema (documentary)2001 Nâzım Hikmet Şarkıları The Songs of Nâzım Hikmet (documentary)

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Ela Alyamaç was born in Istanbul in 1978. She studied film production and film studies at Chapman University, southern California. Her short films Everything and Little Girl Blue were shown at various film festivals in the United States. Fairy Dust is her first feature film.

filmography2000 Her Şey Everything (short)2000 Küçük Kız Little Girl Blue (short)

FAIRY DUST PERİ TOZU Turkey, 2007, 35mm, 85’, colour

director Ela Alyamaçscript Ela Alyamaçphotography Mirsad Herovic editing Mustafa Preshevamusic Emre Dündar, Murat Uncuoğlucast İpek Değer, Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu, Barış Yıldız, Serkan Ercan, Damla Özen, Ahmet Uz, Aytaç Öztuna, Kaya Akayaproduction Nermin Alyamaç, Ela Alyamaç distribution Ela Alyamaç, Kara Kedi Film, Saffet Rona Sok. Kule Apt. 8/1 Kuyubaşı Istanbul T: +90 533 247 3131 F: + 90 216 348 85 90 [email protected]

On the day of her mother’s death, Deniz asks Peter Pan to come and take her to Neverland. Her best friend Emre convinces her to stay and they make a pact firstly to never leave each other and secondly to live in the Neverland that they will create together. Deniz’s world tumbles down when Emre suffers a heart attack as a young man and is rushed to hospital. When Emre falls into a coma, Deniz decides to go on a journey to gather fairy dust, which she believes will heal her friend. On the way, she bumps into Cem, who is on his way to see his dying father. As well as seeing the father he has rejected since childhood, Cem is also running away from his fiancée and their wedding prepara-tions. On this journey of hope, Deniz and Cem’s lives entwine as they get to know each other. When they return to Istanbul, their new relationship and the magical fairy dust are put to the test.

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A FILM BY TUĞRA KAFTANCIOĞLU BİR TUĞRA KAFTANCIOĞLU FİLMİTurkey, 2008, 35mm, 87’, colour

director Emre Akay, Hasan Yalazscript Emre Akay, Hasan Yalazphotography Emre Akay, Hasan Yalaz editing Emre Akaymusic Mehmet Demirtaşcast Tuğra Kaftancıoğlu, Gülüm Baltacıgil, Mehmet Demirtaş production No Budget Films, Baraka Limited distribution Emre Akay, Baraka Limited, Rumeli Cad. 5/6 34371 Istanbul T: +90 536 352 78 81 [email protected]

Mehmet is looking for a young amateur actress to star in his next film. He offers amateur filmmaker Emre the casting job, instructing him to follow the actress candidly with a camera. Emre accepts, un-aware that he too has been filmed during their meeting. After auditioning female candidates eager to star in a feature, he chooses one to follow. Eventually, participants gather in an old, abandoned mansion on one of the Princes’ Island, off the coast of Istanbul. This self-reflective black comedy turns into a macabre ‘making-of’ of a bizarre film by director Tuğra Kaftancıoğlu, the totalitarian and self-obsessed mastermind behind the whole project. Swaying brutally between fiction and reality, humour and suspense, A Film by Tuğra Kaftancıoğlu is a caustic and critical look at acting, directing, and ambition, told in documentary style with moments of shocking realism.

Emre Akay was born in 1978 in Ankara. He studied law and economics in Paris. Hasan Yalaz was born in 1977 in Istanbul. He studied interior architecture in Ankara. A Film by Tuğra Kaftancıoğlu is the directors’ first feature.

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Mehmet Güleryüz was born in Kastamonu in 1966. From 1987-1991, he worked as AD to director Yavuz Özkan. His documentaries on the history of Turkish cinema, a collaboration with Feza Sınar, received critical acclaim. In 1993, he served as presi-dent of the Young Filmmakers Platform. From 1996-1998, he made commercials and music videos. In 1999 and 2000, he produced two films for the state broadcaster TRT. He was secretary general of the Film Directors Association from 2000-2002.

HAVARTurkey, 2008, 35mm, 80’, colour

director Mehmet Güleryüzscript Feza Sınarmusic Osman Aktaş - Kalan Müzikphotography Sadık İncesuediting Ayhan Ergürsel, Seyfettin Tokmak cast Çiçek Tekdemir, Abdullah Tarhan, Eyüp Ağılday, Ramazan İlten, Edip Doğan, Ayşe Ersöz, Habibe Tarhan, Dilek Girtiproduction-distribution Güleryüz Film, İstiklal Cad. İmam Adnan Sok. Çağatay İşhanı 17/51 Beyoğlu Istanbul T/F: +90 212 225 10 90 [email protected]

The consecutive suicide incidents of young women in the southeastern town of Batman aroused awareness, and it was only later that these suicides were uncovered as ‘honour killings’.

Havar discusses this tragic issue, focusing on a young woman named Havar who is rumoured to have become intimate with a young man. When the rumours reach her cousin Şehmuz, who has been promised her as a bride, he pressures Havar’s father, provoking him to kill her. Havar is now the victim and her father the executioner. This debut feature film was shot with amateur actors from the region. The word ‘havar’ is also used in the Batman area to mean ‘scream’, ‘cry for help’ or ‘rebellion’.

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THE HEAVEN CENNETTurkey, 2008, 35mm, 96’, colour

director Biray Dalkıranscript Burak Sesliphotography Aşkın Sağıroğluediting Desart Groupmusic Taner Sarfcast Engin Altan Düzyatan, Fahriye Evcen, Zeynep Pabuççuoğlu, Tülay Bekret, Şendoğan Öksüzproduction-distribution Biray Dalkıran, Funda 06-04 B-28 Kat 1 No:2 Bahçeşehir Istanbul T: +90 532 512 18 33 [email protected] www.cennetfilm.com

‘There was happiness in his heaven until the others came.’

A is 29 years old. He has a vivid imagination despite being mentally backward. His mother died when he was seven, and after the traumatic event he started living with the vision of his mother. His childhood was lonely so he created his own fantastic heaven. His father worries about him. But he keeps a big secret from his son. One day, A meets a beautiful girl. She is also backward like him. He is no longer alone. While they are living in their amusing heaven, a doctor appears. A specialist in mental deficiency, she has been developing a miracle drug over the last six years and A is a good subject for her experiment.

This story is a fantastic, funny and emotional drama.

Biray Dalkıran (1976) graduated from Beykent University in 1996 with a degree in cinema and television. He earned a media business certificate from Liverpool John Moores University in 2000 and a master’s degree in film and television from Beykent University in 2003. He is currently working as feature film, commercial and video director.

filmography2001 A.B.M.E (short)2002 Sis The Fog (short)2006 Araf Purgatory

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HIDDEN FACES SAKLI YÜZLERTurkey, Germany, 2007, 35mm, 116’, colour, b&w

Handan ğpekçi studied communication sciences at Gazi University. Her first experience of directing came in 1993, when she made the documentary Song of the Kemence. The following year, in 1994, she shot her debut feature Dad is in the Army. With her second feature Hejar, İpekçi won 21 awards from all over the world. Hejar secured theatrical releases in Germany, the UK and Japan.

director-script Handan İpekçiphotography Feza Çaldıran, Ümit Ardabak editing Aytekin Birkon, Natalin Solakoğlu, Handan İpekçimusic Animacast Şenay Aydın, İştar Gökseven Berk Hakman, Cem Bender, Nisa Yıldırımproduction Yeni Yapım Film Ltd., Tradewind Pictures GmbH, Bir Filmdistribution Bavaria Film GmbH, Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig Germany T: +49 (89) 6499-3506 [email protected]

Ali has been living in Germany for five years. One day, he happens to watch a documentary on ‘honour killings’ and finds out that his niece Zühre, who he thought he had killed five years ago, is alive. There is only one thing to do: to finish unfinished business and kill Zühre! However, members of his family have changed, especially İsmail. Five years earlier, the family council allotted İsmail the task of strangling Zühre’s two-day-old baby. Being a minor, he also admitted responsibility for the other murders. But after five years in jail, he doesn’t want to be involved any more.

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HOLD ON TO LIFE HAYATTAN KORKMATurkey, 2007, 35mm, 102’, colour

director-script Berrin Dağçınarphotography Ercan Özkan editing Aytekin Birkonmusic Can Hakgüdercast Zeki Alasya, Tarık Papuççuoğlu, Hakan Boyav, Haldun Boysan, Suzan Aksoy, Zeynep Eronat, Ceren Soylu, Sedef Avcı, Mert Fırat, Fırat Can Aydın production Ali Kaygısız, Sevda Kaygısız, Kare Filmdistribution 35 Milim, İstiklal Cad. Erol Dernek Sok. Erman Han No:5 D: 4-A 34433 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 251 46 16 www.35milim.net

Talat, Bedrettin ve Rıfkı are three close friends who have lived in the same town since childhood. Although the life they have is simple, lack of money isn’t a problem. When they learn that Talat’s son is sick and going progressively blind, it comes as a wake-up call: they realize that the world they inhabit is pleasant enough but not real. Life is no longer easy and they must confront it head on. They have been able to feed themselves until now, but that is all. The tragic news tells them they should rise and do something. Meanwhile, the children are growing along with their problems.

Berrin Dağçınar has directed and wrote a number of television dramas Hold on to Life is her first feature.

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JANJANTurkey, Germany, 2007, 35mm, 99’, colour

Aydın Sayman (1953) graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in economics. From 1970-1974, he wrote for several newspapers and magazines as a film critic. During the same years, he worked at Istanbul Sinematek Club as an assistant editor. After a few years as an editor, he began working as an assistant director in the film industry. His previous film Children of Secret won 16 national and international awards.

director Aydın Saymanscript Erdoğan Akdumanphotography Eyüp Bozediting Umut Keri, Ekrem Ertikmenmusic Can Atillacast Berk Hakman, Selen Seyven, Çetin Öner, Levend Yılmaz, Aykut Oray, Aykut Kayacık production De Yapımcılık, Mpool (Berlin) distribution De Yapımcılık, Nisbetiye Cad. Peker Sok. Tuğ Apt. 9/7 1. Levent Istanbul T: +90 555 288 80 13 [email protected] www.janjanfilm.com

In a poor Anatolian town, an old man marries a beautiful young girl, paying her father some land in exchange. A forbidden love grows between the young wife and the amiable fool of the town, Janjan, causing anger and hatred among the townsfolk.

Janjan tells the story of the inhabitants of a town that lacks any future perspective. As soon as the slightest change takes place in these people’s lives, they seek refuge in the past and their traditions, failing to realize that this is a dead-end road. Not even Janjan’s brother, who lives in Germany, is able to escape this fate.

filmography1989 Güneşteki Leke Stain on the Sun1992 68’den 6 Mayıs’a From 68 to 6th of May (documentary)2002 Sır Çocukları Children of Secret

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MADE IN EUROPETurkey, 2007, 35mm, 85’, colour, b&w

director-script İnan Temelkuranphotography Enrique Santiago Silguero, Alberto Rodriguez Novoaediting İnan Temelkuranmusic Ferit Özgüner, Okan Çobancast Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı, Yolanda Rincon, Josue Naval, Roberto, Murat Öncül, Ali Çelik, Murat Makel, Ruhi Sarıproduction İnan Temelkuran, Mustafa Dok, Oğuz Peridistribution İnan Temelkuran, mpool, Sinanpaşa Köprüsü Sok. 14/3, Beşiktaş Istanbul T: +90 536 743 18 09 [email protected]

As US troops enter Afghanistan, three groups of Turkish people are gathering in three European cities (Madrid, Paris, Berlin). Each group is a microcosm of Turkish society in Europe, where immigrants seek or live without residence permits after years of drifting like a ghost from one country to next. Apart from their legal status, they are ordinary people who face universal conflicts involving manhood and humiliation, insecurities and women, kinship and betrayal, superiority and self-pity. Together they constitute the schizophrenic nature of the immigrant world, reminding us that they are not problems living in Europe but living people.

ğnan Temelkuran was born in Izmir in 1976. He graduated in law from Ankara Uni-versity in 1998. He won a scholarship from the Spanish government to research the Franco era and graduated from Madrid’s TAI Film School in Madrid in 2003. Temelkuran’s film about a Turkish wedding in Spain won Best Documentary award at the Madrid Young Art Festival. He returned to Turkey in 2005. Made in Europe is his first feature film.

filmography2001 Anarquist Begger Crazy Ibrahim (short)2002 Micro Documentary about Nutrient Love (documentary)2003 Vital Enconter (short); Revenge of the Lost Samurai (short); First Turkish Wedding (documentary)

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Çağan Irmak was born in Izmir in 1970. He graduated from Aegean University with a degree in radio and television. He was awarded the Sedat Simavi prize for his short films Fairytale and Victim, which he made as a student. In 1992, he started working in the movie industry as an assistant director to acclaimed directors. His short film Play Me Old and Wise was awarded first prize by İFSAK

director-script Çağan Irmak photography Mirsad Herovic editing Ruşen Dağhan music Evanthia Reboutsika cast Çetin Tekindor, Hümeyra, Yetkin Dikinciler, Şerif Sezer, Kaya Akkaya, Melis Birkan, Feride Çetin, Şener Kökkaya, Cemal Hünalproduction Avşar Film, Ömer Avni Mah. İmam Kerim Çıkmazı No:3 34437 Gümüşsuyu Istanbul T: +90 212 249 85 87 F: +90 212 249 85 52 [email protected] sales New Films International, İnebolu Sk. Derya Han No: 3/2 Setüstü Kabataş Istanbul T: +90 212 243 80 10 F: +90 212 243 80 17

As with all great tales, we shall also start this one with the name of the creator. Zekeriya, a mountain of a man, has gathered the children around him to tell them the tale of a hero. This tale is about a Messenger named Abraham; whatever had happened to him robbed him of his mind; he lost his tongue; and when he looked he saw differently and when he listened, he heard in a different way.Zekeriya is a wandering storyteller, going from village to village spreading the tale of the Messenger Abraham. The Messenger Abraham is the truth that lies at the point where fiction meets reality. He must tell the tale of Messenger Abraham in order to live and ease the burning flame of pain in his heart. Zekeriya arrives in a village that has taken upon its shoulders the weight of all the sins in the world. And he paves the way to an unpreventable change through the tale. What was once silent is voiced, what was once shrouded in darkness comes to light, and all those whose word and essence is the same, await the day when the Messenger Abraham will come to save them.

THE MESSENGER ULAKTurkey, 2007, 35mm, 102’, colour

filmography1998 Bana “Old and Wise”ı Çal Play Me Old and Wise • 2001 Bana Şans Dile Wish Me Luck2003 Mustafa Hakkında Herşey All About Mustafa • 2005 Babam ve Oğlum My Father and Son

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Dersu Yavuz Altun was born in Ankara in 1967 and studied drama at Ankara Uni-versity. During this time, he wrote and directed four children’s plays. He was later appointed department head of the Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu Children’s Theatre. He founded the Ziraat Bankası Children’s Theatre and staged 220 performances of the plays La Fontaine, Court of Animals (an adaptation) and Lying Clowns, which he wrote and directed. He has written two major plays for adults, which are waiting to be staged. In recent years, he has been working as an author, actor and assistant director for television productions.

director Dersu Yavuz Altunscript Dersu Yavuz Altunphotography İlker Berkeediting Aytekin Birkonmusic Tolga Burkaycast Ali Erkazan, İdil Fırat, Mahir İpek, Serhat Nalbantoğlu, Ali İpin, Veysel Diker, Suat Ülhan production-distribution Yeniden Film Yapım, Çatma Mescit Mah. Tabur İmamı Sok. No: 4/5 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 254 0283 [email protected]

A high-ranking state inspector is assigned a classified case by the interior minister. When the inspec-tor and his assistant arrive in a small Anatolian town to begin their work, an investigation into an alleged murder case is launched, at the centre of which is Aylin, the high-school teacher. As Aylin gives her testimony to the inspector, the story travels back and forth between the present and the past of Aylin’s account. Hasan, Aylin’s husband, is a loser, an alcoholic who can’t handle everyday life. One night, he is driving drunk and runs over two children. Panic stricken, he flees from the scene of the accident. He confides in his wife, Aylin, but doesn’t tell her the whole truth. He admits fleeing, but only after taking the injured kids to hospital. Meanwhile, the couple finds out there were eyewitnesses to the accident. They decide to leave Istanbul before they are caught by the police.

MURKY WATERS MÜNFERğTTurkey, 2007, 35mm, 106’, colour

filmography1997 Altı Öksüz Sandalye Six Orphan Chairs (short)1998 Çöpler Cennete Gider mi? Does Garbage go to Heaven? (short)2002 Avunmak Consolation (short)

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director Hüseyin Karabeyscript Hüseyin Karabey, Ayça Damgacıphotography A. Emre Tanyıldız editing Mary Stephenmusic Kemal S. Gürel, Erdal Güney, Hüseyin Yıldızcast Ayça Damgacı, Hama Ali Khan, Savaş Emrah Özdemir, Volga Sorgu Tekinoğluproduction Asi Film world sales Insomnia, 50 bis rue de la Mare 75020 Paris France T: +33 1 43 58 08 04 F: +33 1 43 58 09 32 www.insomnia-sales.com awards Best Actress Istanbul • Best New Narrative Filmmaker Tribeca

Three years ago, Hama Ali, a charismatic B movie actor from Iraq, and Ayca, a similarly rotund but charming actress from Turkey, met in real life on a film set. Their romance continued across borders through video love letters and broken phone calls until America invaded Iraq and a tide of violence engulfed the country. As most people fled from East to West seeking safety, Ayca decided to make the journey from West to East, seeking her lover. My Marlon and Brando, a dramatic feature film, is the true story of her extraordinary and ultimately tragic experiences in such mad times...

Hüseyin Karabey is regarded as one of Turkey's new directing talents at a time when the independent film scene in Turkey is beginning to gain global attention. Karabey developed My Marlon and Brando with Ayça Damgacı, whose true story it tells. Kara-bey's previous work includes the feature-length docudrama Silent Death and Boran, a short film that explores the disappearance of 5000 political activists in Turkey dur-ing the '90s by merging fact and dramatic treatment. His documentary Breath was an exclusive look at Pina Bausch, the world-famous German choreographer. His films have won numerous awards. Karabey lectures at universities and cultural organiza-tions in Turkey.

MY MARLON AND BRANDO GğTMEK Turkey, The Netherlands, France, 2008, 35mm, 92’, colour

selected filmography1996 Etruş Kampı Etruch Camp (documentary) •1999 Boran (documentary) 2001 Sessiz Ölüm Silent Death (docu-drama) • 2004 Pina Bausch Istanbul Buluşması Pina Bausch Istanbul “Breath” (documentary) • 2005 Dialogues in the Dark (documentary) • 2007 Ölümü Ektim Randevu Yerinde I Missed my Rendez-vous with Death (documentary)

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THE PRISONERS BAYRAMPAŞA, BEN FAZLA KALMAYACAĞIMTurkey, 2007, 35mm, 106’, colour

Hamdi Alkan was born in Antakya in 1967. He graduated from Yıldız Technical Uni-versity in electrical engineering. As a student, he was actively involved in amateur dramatics. He began his professional career with the state broadcaster, Turkish Radio and Television (TRT).

director Hamdi Alkanscript Prisoners music Aydın Sarmanphotography Ferhat Öçmenediting Ulaş Cihan Şimşekcast Vural Çelik, Yasemin Conka, Okan Tangücüproduction - distribution Birol Güven, Mint (Made in Turkey), Hacı Murat Sok. No: 9 Bağlarbaşı Üsküdar Istanbul T: +90 216 495 05 60 F: + 90 216 495 85 33 [email protected] www.mint.com.tr

The Prisoners is a story about an ordinary citizen who is wrongly judged and arrested and has stayed in jail for many years, without having the opportunity to convince people of the truth about him.

Erdem is a married man with a child who makes his living as a hairdresser. One day, he runs into his friend Ahmet, a drug dealer. The police are on Ahmet’s case and have his phone tapped. Taking Erdem for Ahmet’s sidekick, the narcotics squad arrests him along with Ahmet. Thinking he’ll be released from jail after a cup of tea, Erdem has had to stay there for more than two years.

filmography2004 En İyi Arkadaşım My Best Friend2005 Afacanlar Kampı Scamps’ Camp

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RECEP İVEDİKTurkey, 2008, 35mm, 98’, colour

director Togan Gökbakarscript Şahan Gökbakar, Serkan Altuniğne photography Ertunç Şenkayediting Erkan Özekanmusic Oğuz Kaplangı, Uğurcan Sezen cast Şahan Gökbakar, Fatma Toptaş, Lemi Filozof, Hakan Bilgin, Tuluğ Çizgenproduction Faruk Aksoy (Aksoy Film), Mehmet Soyarslan (Özen Film) distribution Mehmet Soyarslan, Özen Film, Atıf Yılmaz Cad. No: 11 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 293 70 70 F: +90 212 244 28 51 [email protected] www.ozenfilm.com.tr

A man drops his wallet on the street. Just as a homeless guy is about to grab the wallet and run, Recep İvedik confronts him. He eventually manages to wrest the wallet from the homeless man in order to return it to its owner, but then he finds the owner has already gone. That night as he’s watching TV at home, Recep discovers that the wallet belongs to an eminent businessman from Antalya. So he gets in his car and drives all the way to the south. It’s a trip full of humorous surprises, but Recep finally makes it to Antalya to return the wallet to Muhsin Bey, a tourism tycoon. If Muhsin Bey insists, Recep turns down his offer of a reward and refuses to stay at the hotel for free. On his way out of the hotel, Recep sees his childhood sweetheart Sibel emerging from a tour bus. From now on, he has only one goal: to win round Sibel, who doesn’t recognize or even remember him.This is where Recep’s hilarious holiday adventures start...

Togan Gökbakar was born in Izmir. He won a grant to study cinema and television at Istanbul Bilgi University and graduated in 2005. He began his film career before graduating, working as part of the camera crew and director’s unit on several com-mercials and music videos. As a student, he also made a series of short films and had the job of cameraman for a publicity film on Istanbul Bilgi University.

filmography2004 Uyuyan Şahan Run Dude Run (short)2005 Buğra (short)2006 Gen

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REFUGEE MÜLTECğTurkey, 2007, 35mm, 106’ colour

Reis Çelik was born in Ardahan in 1961. He studied music and drama at the Istanbul State Conservatoire. In 1982, he began working as an economics and political corre-spondent for various national newspapers. After a succession of documentary films, he made his first feature Let There Be Light in 1996. This was followed in 1998 by Goodbye Tomorrow, a dramatisation of the story of late 1960s student leader Deniz Gezmiş. He made his third feature Tales of Intransigence, an improvised docudrama about the storytelling tradition in northeast Anatolia, in 2003.

director Reis Çelikscript Reis Çelikphotography Reis Çelikediting Ulaş Cihan Şimşekcast Luk Piyes, Balaban, Halil Ergün, Derya Durmaz, Necmettin Çobanoğlu, Ali Tutal, Yüksel Arıcı, Numan Acar, Şafak Tan, Metin Turan, Lukas Tieheleproduction-distribution RH Politic Productions International, İmam Adnan Sok. No:7 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 249 70 46 F: +90 212 249 80 06 [email protected]

“Migration and immigration are one of the biggest problems the world faces today - problems that produce the greatest human dramas. When it came to writing this film, I was inspired by the real-life story of a young person forced against his will to leave his homeland. I spent some six years researching the story, which took me to refugee camps in Germany as both an underground and official visitor - my intention was for the film to be as realistic as possible. I don’t see the story as be-ing specific to Germany and Turkey alone; it is something that could happen anywhere in the world from the United States to Africa, China, Afghanistan or Iraq. Humanity has always experienced the drama of displacement and will continue to do so well into the future.” Reis Çelik

filmography1996 Işıklar Sönmesin Let There be Light1998 Hoşçakal Yarın Goodbye Tomorrow 2003 İnat Hikayeleri Tales of Intransigence

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SCOURGE MUSALLLAT Turkey, 2007, 35mm, 95’, colour

director Suavi Alper Mestçiscript Suavi Alper Mestçiphotography Feza Çaldıranmusic Reşit Gözdamlacast Burak Özçivit, Kurtuluş Şakirağaoğlu, Biğkem Karavus, İbrahim Canproduction-distribution Banu Akdeniz, Mia Yapım, Bayar Cad. Derya Apt 90/10 Kozyatağı Istanbul T: +90 216 445 60 01 F: +90 216 445 60 10 [email protected] www.miayapim.com

Suat and Nurcan are two young people born and raised in the same village who love each other passionately. They decide to get married. But when they take this decision, they find themselves ‘haunted’ by great troubles. A creature from other worlds causes unfathomable events around them and disrupts the couple’s entire life. Now, neither their life nor love is as before. The dark incidents affecting them and their environment develop in an inexplicable manner…

Suavi Alper Mestçi graduated from Anadolu University and worked as script writer and editor on TV Channels. Scourge is his first feature.

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SHADOW GÖLGETurkey, 2008, 35mm, 100’, colour

director Mehmet Güreliscript Nilgün Öneşphotography Ahmet Sesigürgilediting Mehmet Gürelimusic Mehmet Gürelicast Görkem Yeltan, Kaan Çakır, Serkan Ercan, Mehmet Ali Alabora, Hikmet Körmükçü production-distribution L.U.P Film, Oba Sok. No: 17/2 Cihangir Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 292 72 78 F: +90 212 292 72 [email protected]

Halim is an old friend of Nevzat’s who lives in Ankara and comes to Istanbul when his mother falls ill. The two friends, particularly Nevzat, are thrilled to meet again, even if the circumstances of their re-union are hardly the happiest. Nevzat, meanwhile, is planning to marry the woman he loves (Selma) and wants to introduce her to Halim to find out what he thinks of her. Halim is an accomplished poet who lives a peaceful life in Ankara with his wife and child. He understands Nevzat’s feelings but is curious about the woman who appears to have changed his friend.Does Selma love Nevzat or has she found a new victim?

Mehmet Güreli was born in Istanbul in 1949. After two years of studying philosophy at Istanbul University, he became a journalist. He has since developed his skills not only as a writer, but also as a musician, singer, painter and documentary filmmaker. Güreli has released five albums to date and published his entire collection of stories in a single volume entitled Alope’nin Odası (Alope’s Room). He has also held 13 exhibitions since 1998. Shadow is his feature film debut.

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ğsmail Necmi works as an independent photographer and filmmaker. Born in 1970, he graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in law. From 1988 to 2004, he worked on a number of short movies, documentaries and photo shoots. Between 2006 and 2007, he worked as an instructor in the visual communication design and photography and video departments of Istanbul Bilgi University. In 2005, he set up his own production company, In Works Istanbul. Should I Really Do It? is his feature film debut

director İsmail Necmiscript İsmail Necmiphotography İsmail Necmiediting İsmail Necmimusic Serkan Alkancast Petra Woschniak, Heroldproduction-distribution İsmail Necmi, In Works Istanbul, Hayriye cad. 5/7, 34433 Galatasaray Istanbul T: +90 212 292 55 38 F: + 90 212 292 55 39 [email protected] www.shouldireallydoit.com

This real-life feature follows the extraordinary life of Petra, a German woman living in Istanbul, in an ironic inversion of the Turkish-migrant-in-Germany story. Her life will take such strange turns you’ll think she’s following a script. But really, we’re watching a real life protagonist evolve in the face of life. For, ultimately, nothing is ever as surprising as life itself. Except, perhaps, fiction… During her sessions with Herold, a masked therapist, her life will unfold before our eyes and we will learn about everything: Istanbul, Germany, family, friends, drugs and death. Should I Really Do It? plays with the concepts of real life and fiction, documentary and drama. Can life ever be more interesting than fiction?

SHOULD I REALLY DO IT? BUNU GERCEKTEN YAPMALI MIYIM?Turkey, 2008, 35mm, 86’, colour

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SORROW STREET HğCRAN SOKAğITurkey, 2007, 35mm, 130’, colour

director Safa Önalscript Safa Önalphotography Çetin Tunca, Mahmut Yumuşakmusic Cahit Berkaycast Ahu Türkpençe, Arda Esen, Türkan Şoray, Hülya Koçyiğit, Cüneyt Arkın, Selda Alkor, Selma Güneri, Müjdat Gezen, Ayla Algan, Rutkay Azizproduction-distribution Safa Önal, M. Attila Gökbörü, MAG Film, Tarlabaşı Caddesi No: 10/8, Taksim Istanbul T: +90 212 254 5482

Sorrow Street is the story of a Bosphorus neighbourhood, of the better-off and less well-off people who live there; the story of people who never lose hope, who are endlessly fond of one another and restrained even in moments of anger and hostility. It is the story of Arif, a repairman who fixes water heaters, taps, stoves and bicycles, an honest, good-looking boy with a heart of gold; a boy abandoned by his parents when their marriage broke up, and sent to spend his childhood in the orphanage… And it is the story of Leyla, the girl he is madly in love with, the university educated daughter of a wealthy family. Except Leyla’s family won’t let her marry Arif. And that drives Leyla to disappear, walking out of house and home. But Sorrow Street is also the story of the ‘other’ girl, the girl hopelessly in love with Arif: the story of the beautiful, innocent and adoring Müyesser. It is the story of Müyesser’s mother, the sweet, likeable, principled widow Şaziye; of Laz Temel, the wandering beans-and-meatball man; of one-time diva Handan Akses and ageing troubadour Udi Şadi Bey...

Safa Önal began writing for the screen in 1952. To date, he has put his name to more than 600 scripts that have since been made into films. In 2005, when 395 of these scripts were officially documented, Önal entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most prolific screenwriter. As the director of 36 films in addition to his writing credits, he has been an active presence in Turkish cinema for 55 years of the industry’s century-long history.

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Kazım Öz was born in Dersim in 1973. He worked with New Life Theatre as an actor and director from 1992-1996. Since 1996, he has been working in the Mesopotamia Culture Centre cinema department, currently known as the Mesopotamia Cinema Collective. His first short film Ax (The Land) was well received both nationally and internationally, and his debut feature, The Photograph (2001) won several awards. His later work, Dûr (The Distant), a feature documentary, received the Best Docu-mentary Award at the Turkish/German Film Festival in Nurnberg.

director-script Kazım Özphotography Ercan Özkan editing Kazım Özmusic Vedat Yıldırım, Ayhan Akkaya, Burak Koyuncu (BGST)cast Cahit Gök, Havin Funda Saç, Selim Akgül, Asiye Dinçsoy, Ali Geçimli, Ali Sürmeliproduction-distribution Özkan Küçük, Kazım Öz, Yapım 13 Film, Elmadağ Cad. Duvardibi Sok. 61/2 Kısmet Han, 80230 Şişli Istanbul T: +90 212 232 60 63 F: +90 212 230 31 43 [email protected]

After much nervous anticipation, Cemal passes the university entrance exams and leaves his small town for Istanbul. He eventually overcomes his desolation in the big city when he meets a revolu-tionist group after several months. His run-in with Helin, one of the pioneers of the group, becomes a starting point for him to establish his own identity. The fervour gripping his heart and soul leads him to read, to explore and to discover his identity over time. Rojda and Orhan, who experience a similar process, also start to change and each becomes an active member of the group.Aged only 18-19, these young people begin to hatch dreams of changing the world. The idea of ‘revolution’ combines with the energy and dynamism of youth and translates into action.

THE STORM BAHOZ (FIRTINA)Turkey, 2008, 35mm, 150’, colour

filmography1996 Destên Me Wê Bibin Bask Emê Bifirin Herin... Let these hands will be wings and we will fly... (co-director, documentary) • 1999 Ax The Land (short) • 2001 Fotograf The Photograph 2004 Dûr The Distance (documentary) • 2006 Son Oyun The Last Game (short)

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SUMMER BOOK TATğL KğTABITurkey, 2008, 35mm, 91’, colour

director-script Seyfi Teomanphotography Arnau Valls Colomerediting Çiçek Kahramancast Taner Birsel, Ayten Tökün, Osman İnan, Harun Özüağ, Tayfun Günay production Yamaç Okur, Nadir Öperli, Bulut Film, Boğaziçi Universitesi Mithat Alam Film Merkezi, Bebek Istanbul T: +90 533 661 77 37 F: +90 212 287 70 86 [email protected] www.bulutfilm.comdistribution Wide Management, 40, rue Saint-Anne 75002 Paris France T: +33 1 5395 0464 F: +33 1 5395 0465 [email protected] awards Best Turkish Film, Fipresci Award Istanbul

Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his family. One day, he has a brain haemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation. Güler is suspicious of her husband having an affair. Veysel, their teenage son, wants to leave the military academy and study business administration. Ali, their 10-year-old son, has to cope with both his bully classmate and the chewing gum he has to sell. Hasan, Mustafa’s younger brother, has chosen a life of solitude since his divorce and always been an outsider to the family. But now, with his brother in coma, he finds himself drawn into family affairs. It’s down to Hasan to solve the mystery of Mustafa’s mistress and the money lost during his trip.

Seyfi Teoman was born in Kayseri, Turkey in 1977. After studying economics at Bos-phorus University in Istanbul, he moved to Lodz for two years to study film direction at Poland’s National Film School. His short film Apartment (2004) was screened at many international film festivals. Summer Book, which he shot in September 2007, is his first feature. He is now working on his second.

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Engin Ayça was born in Edremit in 1941. He trained as a film director at the Instituto Superiore per la Comunicazione e l’Opinione pubblica and the Centro Sperimen-tale di Cinematografia in Rome. He worked as an assistant on Yılmaz Güney’s film Arkadaş (Friend) and spent several years as a director for the state broadcaster TRT. He also joined forces with Atilla Dorsay and Nezih Coşkun to produce the film maga-zine Yedinci Sanat (Seventh Art). Suna is his third feature film.

director Engin Ayçascript Engin Ayçaphotography Çetin Tuncamusic Oğuz Abadancast Türkan Şoray, Gülsen Tuncer, Demir Karahan, Erol Mütercimler, Şükran Akınproduction Yunus Film distribution Mehmet Soyarslan, Özen Film, Atıf Yılmaz Cad. No: 11 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 293 70 70 F: +90 212 244 28 51 [email protected] www.ozenfilm.com.tr

Four friends get together for the first time in years in a seaside town one autumn. University stu-dents together in the turbulent late 1960s, the two men and women relive the past in this quiet town more than 30 years on.Their memories are bitter and the intervening years have been full of personal reckoning. So their few autumn days together are at once euphoric and tinged with melancholy. The dreams, the plans for the future and the romances they had at university have slipped through their fingers, gone for-ever from their grasp. What remains is a bad marriage and the slippery slope that precipitates...

SUNATurkey, 2007, 35mm, 120’, colour

filmography1987 Bez Bebek Cloth Doll1991 Soğuktu ve Yağmur Çiseliyordu It Was Cold and Raining

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TWO BIG GUYS ğKğ KOCA ADAMTurkey, 2007, 35mm, 88’17’’, colour

director Hasan Karcıscript Hasan Karcıphotography Toygun Başıdinç, Hasan Karcıediting Ersin Göncümusic Akın Ok, Emrah Can Yaylıcast Ali Başar, Kadim Yaşar, Nilüfer Aydan, Güray Kip, Ali Yaylı, Sinan Bengier, Nezahat Talar, Uğurtan Sayıner, Şeyda Yılmaz, Nevzat Savaş production-distribution Venüs Film, Mecidiye Caddesi 49-A Blok Daire:5 Mecidiyeköy Istanbul T: +90 212 356 57 76 F: +90 212 356 57 76 [email protected]

Two guys thrown out on the street at a young age... One day, they happened to meet and became good friends. Ali earned a living busking with his saxophone and playing in bars, while Kadim got by on gambling. The two friends also helped other street kids and protected them. They killed anyone who hurt or sexually abused the helpless kids wherever they managed to catch them. One day, Kadim plans to steal a car to pay off his gambling debts. As they break into the car, they hear a baby’s cry from the back seat. The moment is a turning point in both of their lives.

Hasan Karcı was born in Ankara in 1952. He began reviewing films for various maga-zines and newspapers in 1976. He made his first film in 1979. Besides many more features, he also went on to direct a number of documentaries. One of them The Old Ankara won two national awards. Two Big Guys is his 34th feature.

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Selim Evci (1975) graduated from the Radio, Television and Cinema Department of the Maltepe University Faculty of Communications in 2003. He went on to attend the master’s programme at the Cinema Department of Beykent University. He has had his short films and documantaries screened at national and international festi-vals. He is currently the director of the Akbank Short Film Festival. He founded his production company Evci Film in 2006.

director Selim Evciscript Selim Evci photography Meryem Yavuzediting Selim Evcimusic Samet Evci – Frapancast Gülçin Santırcıoğlu, Kaan Keskinproduction-distribution Selim Evci, Evci Film Production Company, Istiklal Cad. Mis Sok. Tan Apt., Daire: 6 Beyoglu 34435 IstanbulT: +90 212 249 58 35 F: +90 212 249 5 834 [email protected] www.evcifilm.com

A story about the different identities of a man and a woman within the borders of their own person. Beginning in the city of Istanbul, the story soon turns into a dramatic road movie.

TWO LINES İKİ ÇİZGİTurkey, 2008, 35mm, 92’, colour

filmography2000 Sen Ya da Hayalin Your Illusion (short)2001 Duvarın Arkası Behind the Wall (documentary)2001 Kırmızıyı Arayan Adam The Man Hunting Out The a Red (documentary)2002 Günler Have a Nice Day (short)2003 Fotoğrafçıların Kapadokyası The Cappodocia of Photographers (documentary)2005 Antasdros (documentary)2006 Köprü The Bridge (short)

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Mahsun Kırmızıgül was born in Diyarbakır in 1969. He graduated from the Istanbul Technical University State Conservatory of Music. White Angel is his debut as both a writer and director. Kırmızıgül has been honored as Best Director and Best International Film awards at Worldfest Houston International Film Festival.

director-script Mahsun Kırmızıgülphotography Eyüp Bozediting Engin Öztürkmusic Mahsun Kırmızıgül, Yıldıray Gürgencast Yıldız Kenter, Ali Sürmeli, Arif Erkin, Erol Günaydın, Erol Demiröz, Mahsun Kırmızgül, Bilge Zobu, Cezmi Baskın, Cihat Tamer, Fadik Atasoy production-distribution Murat Tokat, A.Levent Üngör, Boyut Film, 4. Gazeteciler Sitesi Ülgen Sok. no:43 Levent Istanbul T: +90 212 270 48 30 F: +90 212 270 37 54 [email protected] www.boyutfilm.comaward Best First Film Yeğilçam Awards

White Angel, box office winner of 2007 in Turkish Cinema; has made such a great impact with its warm touch and humanity on the audience that the present government of the country felt the necessity of passing a law in the parliament called White Angel to defend the human rights of the old people. The story of White Angel centres on the perennial universal drama of old age and is set against a backdrop that reflects the brotherhood between Turkish and Kurdish people living in the southeast of Turkey. Mala Ahmet, the elderly leader of a Kurdish tribe, is suffering from cancer. Having fled from pre-scribed chemotherapy in hospital, he suddenly finds himself in a nursing home where he is con-fronted with an altogether different but brutal culture: old people are left to die all on their own. Yet where he comes from, the elderly are treated with the utmost respect, tenderness and care. Mala Ahmet, together with his two sons Reşat and Ali, invites this group of discarded old people to his village to be looked after with love until the end of their days. Their journey becomes a journey into the heart of the country and the people…

WHITE ANGEL BEYAZ MELEKTurkey, 2007, 35mm, 95’, colour

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ZEYNEP’S EIGHT DAYS ZEYNEP’ğN SEKğZ GÜNÜTurkey, 2007, 35mm, 127’, colour

director Cemal Şanscript Cemal Şanphotography Sarp Kayaediting Şenol Şentürkmusic Babazulacast Faik Sevin Atasoy, Mustafa Üstündağ, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Cengiz Sezici, Uğur Çavuşoğlu, Sinan Taymin Albayrak production-distribution Şan Film Silahşör Cad. No: 20/22 D:5 Şişli Istanbul T: +90 212 219 53 35 F: +90 212 219 53 34 [email protected]

Zeynep, a twenty-something, leads a monotonous, obsessively ordered life. All her days are almost exactly the same, closed to the outside world: she wakes up at the same time each morning, wears the same clothes. One night, at a bar she goes for a birthday party, she meets Ali, an extroverted young man, however possibly engaged in illegal activities. Still, Zeynep is simply taken by the energy of this young man who dances madly, oblivious to the crowd. Spending the night with him, Zeynep falls in love with Ali and for the first time, changes her routine.

Cemal ğan (1966) was born in Tunceli. He studied business administration and eco-nomics. He had several poems, short stories, articles on film and cartoons published in various literature, humuor and film magazines. He received many awards with the screenplays of Whistle If You Come Back, Ali and Let There Be Light. Zeynep’s Eight Days is his second feature length film.

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filmography2001 Momi Grandmother (short) • 2002 Bir Bilim Adamıyla Zaman Enleminde Yolculuk Voyage In Time with a Scientist (documentary) • 2005 Tokai City’de Rapsodi ve Melankoli Rapsody and Melancholy in Tokai City (documentary) • 2008 Motoguzzi (short)

AUTUMN SON BAHAR Turkey, 2008, 35mm, 99’, colour

director Özcan Alperscript Özcan Alperphotography Feza Çaldıran editing Thomas Balkenholmusic Ersin Çelikcast Onur Saylak, Megi Kobaladze, Raife Yenigül, Serkan Keskin, Nino Lejavaproduction-distribution F.Serkan Acar, Kuzey Film Production Co., Gazeteci Erol Dernek Sok No:6 K:3 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 252 36 05 F: +90 212 252 36 06 [email protected] [email protected]

Sentenced to jail in 1997 as a university student aged 22, Yusuf is released on health grounds 10 years later. He returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region, where he’s welcomed only by his sick and elderly mother. It turns out that his father died while he was in jail and his older sister got married and moved away to the city. Economic factors mean that it’s almost exclusively old people who live in the mountain village, and the only person Yusuf sees is his childhood friend Mikail. As autumn slowly gives way to winter, Yusuf goes with Mikail to a tavern where he meets Eka, a beau-tiful young Georgian hooker. Neither the timing nor circumstances are right for these two people from different worlds to be together. For all that, love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness - for Yusuf at least. For Eka, Yusuf is something like a character from the pages of a Russian novel: a character who inhabits a faraway world and a faraway time.With the 1990s as a backdrop, the film at once documents and criticises a slice of recent history, exposing the irony, ruthlessness and reality of the period.

Özcan Alper was born in Artvin in 1975. He studied physics at the University of Istanbul from 1992-1996 and history of science from 1996-2003.

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HOW ARE YOU? KAKO SI? Turkey, 2008, 35mm, 102’, colour

director Özlem Akovalıgilscript Özlem Akovalıgilphotography Eyüp Bozmusic Özgür Yalçıncast Semahat Görüşanın, Mesut Akusta, Atilla Öner, Seda Demirproduction-distribution Özlem Akovalıgil Production, Suadiye, Aydın Sok. No: 38/2 Kadıköy 34740, Istanbul T: +90 216 445 87 70 [email protected]

Semahat, who emigrated from Sarajevo to Istanbul many years ago, decides to travel back to her homeland despite her advanced years. Fatih, a film director, is fascinated by her story and wants to shoot the whole journey as a documentary. He films the story of the family on their way to Sarajevo. When they arrive, the journey will force them to confront the dreadful truths of the last war. Eventu-ally, Semahat finds her cousin, Muhammed, who is now 82 years old.

Özlem Akovalıgil graduated from the Istanbul University State Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and went on to study Cinema and Television at the Fine Arts Faculty of Marmara University. From 1992-1999, she acted in a host of television dramas and stage plays. In 1999, she wrote a thesis on acting for the screen. She then spent the next six years writing, directing and producing music videos and commercials. She has led workshops as an instructor at both private colleges and institutions of secondary and higher education.

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Pelin Esmer was born and raised in Istanbul. She studied sociology in Istanbul. She worked as first assistant director on a number of Turkish and foreign documentaries, features and commercials. She lectures on documentary filmmaking. Her first feature documentary The Play was screened at over 50 festivals around the world and won 11 international and three national awards. She won acclaim for the film from critics of Le Monde, Time-CNN, Variety, New York Magazine, Cinemascope and Senses of Cinema. She wrote the script for K & Ali at the Cannes Film Festival’s Résidence de Cinéfondation in Paris.

director Pelin Esmerscript Pelin Esmerphotography Özgür Ekencast Mithat Esmer, Nejat İşlerproduction Sinefilm, Vietinghoff Production, Black Forest Filmsdistribution Tolga Esmer, Sinefilm, Tarık Zafer Tunaya Sok. Açık Deniz Apt. No: 2/12, Istanbul T: +90 212 251 74 70 F: +90 212 251 72 69 [email protected] www.sinefilm.com

K & Ali is the story of two men, a passionate old collector and the caretaker of his apartment building. They have nothing in common except the building they live in, until, that is, the neighbours decide to rebuild the house for a stronger one. Then their fates collide and they change each other’s lives. Istanbul will be the real canvas on which the characters are portrayed. The notion of ‘sound’ will be an integral part not only of the film, but of the story as well.This Turkish/German co-production has already been supported by the Festival de Cannes - Résidence de Cinéfondation, the Rotterdam FF Hubert Bals Fund and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

K & ALİ K VE ALğTurkey, Germany, 2008, 35mm, 95’, colour

filmography2002 Koleksiyoncu The Collector (short)2005 Oyun The Play (documentary)

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LISTEN TO THE NEY DİNLE NEYDENTurkey, 2008, 35mm, 100’, colour

director Jacques Deschampsscript Ayşe Şasa, Özkul Erenphotography Octavio Espirito Santoediting Ali Üstündağmusic Kemal Sahir Gürelcast Emin Olcay, Lale Mansurproduction-distribution PHS Film Prodüksiyon Fahrettin Kerim Gökay No:34 Altunizade, Üsküdar, 34662 IstanbulT: +90 216 474 45 19 F: +90 216 474 44 [email protected]

In 1789, Napoleon is preparing for the Egyptian campaign. The Ottoman Sultan enters into secret negotiations to soothe the troubled waters. Involved in the discussions is Ascidede, a dervish and former statesman. The forward-thinking physician Halil accompanies him.At the palace, Halil is disturbed by the young servant Gulnihal; the feeling is mutual. What starts as distaste later blossoms, with the help of the wise Ascidede, into love.

Jacques Deschamps became known with his film Still Waters Run Deep. In addition to cinema and television films, he has written and directed documentaries and shorts. He still teaches at FEMIS (the European Foundation for Audiovisual Professions) and is working on a co-writing a script Listen to the Ney that he will direct himself.

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Reha Erdem was born in Istanbul in 1960 and graduated from Bosphorus University. He made commercials before his first feature Oh Moon.

director-script Reha Erdemphotography Florent Herryediting Reha Erdemcast Elit İşcan, Erdal Beşikçioğlu, Levend Yılmazproduction Atlantik Film, Gamze Paker, Üst Zerren Sok. No 2, 1. Levent 34330, Istanbul T: +90 212 278 36 11 F: +90 212 278 19 71 [email protected] www.atlantikfilm.comworld sales Memento Films International, 6 Cité Paradis 75010 Paris France T: +33 1 5334 9029 F: +33 1 4247 1124 [email protected]

Hayat (14), her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat’s father owns a small boat that secures the family’s survival through a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat’s life is harsh and unrelenting. But Hayat has an instinct for survival. Her capacity for courage, endurance and hope in the face of these trials suggest that there is Life despite the manifold injustices of an unjust world…

MY ONLY SUNSHINE HAYAT VARTurkey, Greece, Bulgaria, 2008, 35mm, 119’, colour

filmography1989 A Ay Oh Moon1995 Deniz Türküsü Song of the Sea (short)1999 Kaç Para Kaç Run for Money2004 Korkuyorum Anne Mommy, I’m Scared2006 Beş Vakit Times and Winds; Ekimde Hiç Bir Kere Anytime in October (short)

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OLIVE BRANCH ZEYTğN DALITurkey, Hungary, Spain, 2008, 35mm, 110’, colour

director Yılmaz Erdoğanscript Hakan Alakphotography Tamas Lajosediting Kemalettin Osmanlımusic Kemal Sahir Gürelcast Yılmaz Erdoğan, Sihem Assif, Abdel Ouahed Sanoujiproduction-distribution Nöbetçi Yapım, Gazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. Yeni Melek Han 17/3 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 249 06 [email protected]

Serhat is plagued by depression after losing his wife and son in a bomb explosion in Istanbul and decides to move to Spain. Here, the Moroccan Majidi enters his isolated life in the post 9/11 western world. As their friendship grows, they affect each other’s way of looking at the world. Majidi has prejudices against Spain and Spanish people just as westerners have prejudices against the Muslim community. Majidi wants only one thing: to be buried in his homeland. Anxious to bury the ghosts of her chequered past and begin a new life, Nedjma hides her history from Majidi. Majidi is planning to marry Nedjma and return to Morocco, but then their life is turned upside down. Majidi ventures everything to save the woman he loves. Serhat unites his destiny with that of his friend Majidi. The Al-Qaeda linked terrorist attacks on Madrid of 11 March 2004 change their destiny. Olive Branch is a film about friendship in a world where political chaos plays havoc with individual lives.

Yılmaz Erdoğan was born in Hakkari in1968. He joined the Ferhan Şensoy Theatre in 1987. In 1994, he progressed to found the group BKM Actors with Necati Akpınar. His debut feature film Vizontele (2001) smashed local box office records, notching up some 3.5 million admissions. Three years later, he filmed the sequel Vizontele Tuuba. He consolidated his success as writer, director and actor with his third feature Magic Carpet Ride in 2005.

filmography2000 Vizontele 2003 Vizontele Tuuba2005 Organize İşler Magic Carpet Ride

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Ahmet Uluçay was born in 1954 in Tepecik, a village close to Tavşanlı, Turkey, where he still resides today. Passionate about moving pictures since childhood, he dreamt of becoming a filmmaker and has been making award winning short films for the last 15 years. Boats Out Of Watermelon Rinds is his first feature length film and has received awards at film festivals around the world.

director Ahmet Uluçayscript Ahmet Uluçayphotography İlker Berkeediting Mustafa Preshevamusic Baba Zulacast Serkan Ozcan, Mehmet Gürleyen, Emin Gürsoy, Ahmet Tepe production-distribution Tayfun Delice, Tersine Filmler, Asmalımescit Mah. Nergis Sok. 8/8 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 252 47 50 F: +90 212 252 83 91 [email protected] www.tersinefilmler.com

Yakup is a sixteen year old shepherd who lives in an isolated and neglected village on the steppe. He has never been outside the mountain-encircled steppe, and his only contact with the outside world is the occasional passing train. One day, he is transformed by his brief encounter with a young city girl traveling by train. Hoping to find her, he even makes an aborted escape from his village, a place inhabited by various eccentric characters, where superstition, ancient traditions and jinn are still a part of everyday life. The villagers are convinced that Yakup has been influenced by demons or sprites, and attempt to help him. But the truth of the matter is far simpler: Yakup is in love.

SEASHELL ON THE STEPPE BOZKIRDA DENİZ KABUĞUTurkey, 2008, 35mm, 110’, colour

selected filmography1993 Optik Düşler Optical Dreams (short)1994 Koltuk Değneklerinden Kanat Yapmak Making Wings From Crutches (short)1995 Bizim Köyün Orta Yeri Sinema Middle of Our Village is a Movie Theatre (short)1998 Epileptic Film (short)2001 Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds

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Ümit Ünal was born in 1965. He has written the screenplays for eight feature films. His debut feature as a director was Nine (2002), which won many awards on the international film festival circuit and was Turkey’s official foreign language film selec-tion for the Academy Awards in 2003. He wrote and co-directed his second feature film Istanbul Tales in 2004. Ara is his third film as director and he is currently working on his fourth, Shadowless, an adaptation of the novel by Hasan Ali Toptaş. He has also published one book of short stories and two novels.

director Ümit Ünalscript Ümit Ünal (adapted from the novel by Hasan Ali Toptaş)music Candan Erçetinphotography Gökhan Atılmışediting Çiçek Kahramancast A. Mümtaz Taylan, Arsen Gürzap, Beyti Engin, Biğkem Karavus, Cem Özeren, Ertan Saban, Fuat Onanproduction-distribution Narsist Film, Mehmet Hakan Karahan, 8. Gazeteciler Sitesi, Yıldırım Oğuz Göker Cad. A3 Blok 6, Levent Istanbul T: +90 212 284 02 12 F: +90 212 284 02 15 [email protected]

A Turkish writer goes to the barber. While waiting for his turn, he gazes at the pictures in the frame of the mirror and dreams up a story of a village far away. The Mukhtar, or village headman, is for-ever dealing with death and bizarre cases of people going missing. And now, a beautiful young girl disappears without trace. The Mukhtar and his guard suspect everyone but all efforts to find the girl fail. It’s then that the village sage points out that the village’s history is full of missing persons and runaways. Still, the Mukhtar and the village guard can’t help being horrified at every turn by the developments of this latest mystery. Their minds are sent spinning by the complexity of life and their mysterious destinies.The village is an army of nobodies: everybody has a nobody… Meanwhile, the writer dreaming this up seems lost in the horror of his own imagination.

THE SHADOWLESS GÖLGESğZLERTurkey, 2008, 35mm, colour

filmography2002 9 Nine2004 Anlat Istanbul Istanbul Tales

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SULTANS KITCHEN SULTAN MUTFAKTATurkey, 2009, 35mm, colour

director Ümit Ünalscript Ümit Ünalcast Serra Yılmazproduction-distribution Gülin Üstün, GU-Film Birlik Sok. No: 24/A D: 18 1. Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 268 17 32 F: +90 212 268 17 [email protected]

Sultan’s Kitchen is a black comedy that deals with intersecting themes of food and sex, oppression and dreams, isolation and madness.Sultan is a middle aged Turkish house wife living in Dalston, (an area in London largely populated by Turkish minority) for over 20 years. She is plump, very quiet with a permanent smile on her face. She loves cooking for the people she loves, she gives us the recipes of famous Turkish dishes all through the film. Every recipe reminds her a person in her life. She tells us stories about those people. Her husband, her husband’s lover, her husband’s best friends, and their wives... Then she tells us how she killed them all. Sultan is a very ordinary woman except for one thing, she is a serial killer.

Ümit Ünal was born in 1965. He has written the screenplays for eight feature films. His debut feature as a director was Nine (2002), which won many awards on the international film festival circuit and was Turkey’s official foreign language film selec-tion for the Academy Awards in 2003. He wrote and co-directed his second feature film Istanbul Tales in 2004. Ara is his third film as director and he is currently working on his fourth, Shadowless, an adaptation of the novel by Hasan Ali Toptaş. He has also published one book of short stories and two novels.

filmography2002 9 Nine2004 Anlat Istanbul Istanbul Tales

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TALES FROM KARS KARS ÖYKÜLERğTurkey, 2008, 35mm, colour

director-script Özcan Alper, Ülkü Oktay, Emre Akay, Ahu Öztürk, Zehra Derya Koçphotography Özgür Ekenediting Ulaş Cihan Şimşeksound İsmail Karadaş cast Ozan Güven, Nihal Menzil, Şebnem Köstem, Necmettin Çobanoğlu, residents of Karsproduction Gezici Film, Kars Belediyesidistribution Gezici Film, Ballıbaba Sok. No: 74/22, Küçükesat, AnkaraT: +90 312 466 34 84 F: +90 312 466 43 31 [email protected]

In 2007, the Ankara Cinema Association joined forces with the Municipality of Kars to launch a script competition that would give young directors the opportunity to make a film with a professional cast and crew. The main precondition was that the story of the film should be set in Kars. In November 2007, during the 13th Festival on Wheels, the ‘Stories of Kars’ Short Film Script Competition wrapped and the five winning scripts were announced. These are now scheduled for shooting in 2008.Moto Guzzi: Twelve-year-old Yusuf, who lives in a village near Kars, cycles all the way to school every day despite the brutal winter. However tough the routine may seem, this is far from the case for Yusuf because every morning he sees Leyla waiting for the Moto Guzzi. A Small Truth: Celal Bey ‘the Athlete’, whose real nickname is a mysterious enigma, cuts a figure as a modern republican on the one hand, and a typical Kars farmer on the other. He decides one day to hire an agricultural engineer on his farm.Zilo: When seven-year-old Zilo’s mother tries to give her some of the medicine that has killed one of her chick, she imagines her family is trying to do away with her and decides to run away from home with her chick. Zilo sets her sights on Ankara but will need money if she is to bring off her plan.Minute by Minute: A woman digs a small hole in the garden. She buries an amulet in the hole; she puts an amulet under the bed, under the pillow, everywhere. She hides things from her husband. Their daughter should hide everything too. She should hide her belongings, she should hide that she is growing up. That she has started her periods. Everything is quietly covered up.Open Wound: A young man banishes the image of his weary father by retracing the older man’s footsteps to the village where he was born and raised and suddenly left one day.

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WIND LODOSTurkey, 2008, 35mm, 95’, colour

director Didem Eraydascript Didem Erayda photography Gökhan Tiryaki editing Çiçek Kahramanmusic Tolga Tüzün cast Rüçhan Çalışkur, Mustafa Uzunyılmaz, Ümit Çırak, Sarp, Yeşim Kocak, Bulut Köpük, Bahar Sarah, Erol Günaydın production-distribution Münire Armstrong, Yeni Nesil Film, Atıfet Sok. 18/26, Moda Istanbul T: +90 216 414 83 92 F: +90 216 414 83 92 [email protected]

A man, who is beating his girlfriend in an empty park, is attacked by a woman. The woman and the girl flee convinced that she has killed him. Joined by the girl's sister, they drive off to meet their fa-ther in his summerhouse. They realize on the way that their lives are about running away, disappear-ance, coincidence, insanity, failures and dreams - and most importantly of all, about deep anxiety...

Didem Erayda graduated from Marmara University with a degree in cinema and tele-vision and went on to earn a master’s degree in art from the same university. She has made several shorts to date and continues her work today as an independent filmmaker. Wind is her directorial debut.

filmography1993 Oyun Game (short)1996 Soluk Zaman Pale Time (short)2002 Hediye The Gift (short)2003 Oyuncak Fabrikası Toy Factory (short)2004 Ziyaret The Visit (short)

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Three Monkeys Nuri Bilge Ceylan .......................................................................................................1120 Murat Saraçoğlu - Özhan Eren ..............................................................................2Ara Ümit Ünal .....................................................................................................................3Broken Angel Aclan Bates Büyüktürkoğlu ....................................................................................4Dot Derviş Zaim ...................................................................................................................5Etcetera Etcetera Tunç Başaran ................................................................................................................6A Fairground Attraction Mehmet Eryılmaz .......................................................................................................7Fairy Dust Ela Alyamaç ..................................................................................................................8A Film By Tuğra Kaftancıoğlu ......................................................................................Emre Akay - Hasan Yalaz 9Havar Mehmet Güleryüz .................................................................................................. 10The Heaven Biray Dalkıran ........................................................................................................... 11Hidden Faces Handan İpekçi .......................................................................................................... 12Hold On To Life Berrin Dağçınar ........................................................................................................ 13Janjan Aydın Sayman .......................................................................................................... 14Made in Europe İnan Temelkuran ..................................................................................................... 15The Messenger Çağan Irmak ............................................................................................................. 16Murky Waters Dersu Yavuz Altun ................................................................................................... 17My Marlon And Brando Hüseyin Karabey ..................................................................................................... 18The Prisoners Hamdi Alkan ............................................................................................................. 19Recep Ivedik Togan Gökbakar ...................................................................................................... 20Refugee Reis Çelik .................................................................................................................... 21Scourge Suavi Alper Mestçi................................................................................................... 22Shadow Mehmet Güreli ......................................................................................................... 23Should I Really Do It? İsmail Necmi ............................................................................................................. 24Sorrow Street Safa Önal .................................................................................................................... 25The Storm Kazım Öz ..................................................................................................................... 26Summer Book Seyfi Teoman ............................................................................................................ 27Suna Engin Ayça ................................................................................................................. 28Two Big Guys Hasan Karcı ............................................................................................................... 29Two Lines Selim Evci ................................................................................................................... 30White Angel Mahsun Kırmızıgül ................................................................................................. 31Zeynep’s Eight Days Cemal Şan................................................................................................................... 32

Autumn Özcan Alper ............................................................................................................... 34How Are You? Özlem Akovalıgil ...................................................................................................... 35K & Ali Pelin Esmer ................................................................................................................ 36Listen to the Ney Jacques Deschamps ............................................................................................... 37My Only Sunshine Reha Erdem .............................................................................................................. 38Olive Branch Yılmaz Erdoğan ........................................................................................................ 39Seashell on the Steppe Ahmet Uluçay ........................................................................................................... 40The Shadowless Ümit Ünal ................................................................................................................... 41Sultans Kitchen Ümit Ünal ................................................................................................................... 42Tales From Kars Ö. Alper, Ü. Oktay, E. Akay, A. Öztürk, Z. D. Koç ............................................ 43Wind Didem Erayda ........................................................................................................... 44

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A.F.S. FILM Yeniçarşı Cad. 88/2-3 Galatasaray Istanbul T: +90 212 292 67 92 F: +90 212 251 05 25 [email protected] www.afsfilm.com

AJANS 21İnönü Cad. 77/7 Gümüşsuyu Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 292 15 27 F: +90 212 244 52 22 [email protected] www.ajans21.com

AKADEMI PRODUCTIONNizamiye Cad. İnönü Mah. Özsoy İş Merkezi No:45-A Elmadağ Taksim Istanbul T: +90 212 361 56 90 F: +90 212 361 56 94 [email protected] www.akademiprd.com

ALFA-BETA FILMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. İliyadi Apt. 7/4 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 243 63 40 F: +90 212 245 31 08 [email protected]

ALTIOKLAR PRODUCTIONSTorlak Fırın Sok. No:2 34470 Rumelihisarı IstanbulT: +90 212 358 60 06 F: +90 212 358 60 [email protected] www.altioklar.com

AMENIS FILM Muradiye Mah. Nüzhetiye Cad. No:55/6 Beşiktaş Istanbul T: +90 212 261 75 23 F: +90 212 259 26 [email protected]

ANKA FILMKuloğlu Mah. Ağa Hamam Cad. 35/4 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 245 64 10 F: +90 212 245 64 [email protected] www.ankafilm.com

ANS PRODUCTION Teşvikiye Palas 107/6 34365 Teşvikiye IstanbulT: +90 212 259 77 85 F: +90 212 227 56 [email protected] www.ans.com.tr

ARK PRODUCTIONAkatlar Mah. 5. Gazeteciler Sitesi No:9 Akasya Sok. A 4/4 Beşiktaş Istanbul T: +90 212 325 03 15 F: +90 212 282 76 71 [email protected] www.arkproduction.com

ARTI PRODUCTIONSGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. Kamil Bey Apt. No: 14/3 34433 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 293 13 93 F: +90 212 293 09 [email protected] www.artiproductions.com

ARZU FILM6. Gazeteciler Sitesi Menekşe Sok. No: 37 Akatlar Istanbul T: +90 212 270 76 02-03 F: +90 212 264 16 [email protected] www.arzufilm.com.tr

ASI FILMElmadağ Caddesi No: 14 D:3 Taksim IstanbulT: +90 212 225 39 44 F: +90 212 225 49 [email protected] www.asifilm.com

ASYA FILMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. Erman Han No:5/1 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 251 41 71 F: +90 212 293 34 98 [email protected] www.ozgenturkali.com

ATADENIZ FILMBıyıklı Mehmet Paşa Sok. Çamlık Keskin Apt. No: 12/2 Etiler Istanbul T: +90 212 265 46 07 [email protected]

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ATLANTIK FILMÜst Zeren Sok. No:2, 1. Levent Istanbul T: +90 212 278 36 11 F: +90 212 278 19 71 [email protected] www.atlantikfilm.com

AVSAR FILMİnönü Cad. Gümüş Apt. No:49/2 Gümüşsuyu Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 251 34 77 - 78 F: +90 212 249 69 [email protected] www.avsarfilm.com.tr

BARAKA LIMITED Rumeli Cad. 5/6 34371 Istanbul T: +90 212 236 11 [email protected] www.barakalimited.com

BELGE FILMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. No: 3/4 34433 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 252 25 25 F: +90 212 251 36 [email protected] www.belgefilm.com

BDR FILMKaranfil Cad. Yeşil Çimen Sok. No: 20 Levent Istanbul T: +90 212 282 90 01 F: +90 212 282 85 [email protected] www.bdrfilm.com

BIR FILMKuloğlu Mah. Ayhan Işık Sok. Özverim Apt. 32/1 34433 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 251 82 04 F: +90 212 251 82 [email protected] www.birfilm.com

BKMMaya Meridyen Plaza, Ebulula Cad. D:2 Blok K:3 Akatlar Istanbul T: +90 212 352 18 18 F: +90 212 351 21 68 [email protected] www.bkmonline.net

BOYUT FILM4. Gazeteciler Sitesi Ülgen Sok. No: 43 PK.34330 Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 270 48 30 F: +90 212 270 37 [email protected] www.boyutfilm.com

BOCEK YAPIMÇubuklu Cad. Ağaçlık Mesire Yeri D+E Burunbahçe Beykoz Istanbul T: +90 216 610 10 58 F: +90 216 610 10 59 [email protected] www.bocekyapim.com.tr

BUGAY FILMTürkgücü Sok. No:53-55/2 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 244 47 41 F: +90 212 245 29 28 [email protected] www.bugayfilm.com

BULUT FILMBoğaziçi Üniversitesi Mithat Alam Film Merkezi Güney Kampüsü Bebek Istanbul T: +90 212 287 19 49 F: +90 212 287 70 [email protected] www.bulutfilm.com

CO PRODUCTIONFaik Paşa Cad. No:39 Çukurcuma Taksim Istanbul T: +90 212 251 32 42 F: +90 212 249 58 57 [email protected] www.coproduction.com.tr

ÇAN FILM8. Gazeteciler Sitesi A-6 No:4 Akatlar Istanbul T: +90 212 325 59 01 F: +90 212 325 61 [email protected] www.can-film.com

DADA FILM Büyükdere Caddesi No:57 Kat:1 34398Maslak Istanbul T: +90 212 328 16 80 F: +90 212 328 16 83 [email protected] www.dadafilm.net

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DE YAPIMCILIKNisbetiye Cad. Peker Sok. Tuğ Apt. 9/71. Levent Istanbul T: +90 555 288 80 [email protected] www.deyapimcilik.com

D.F.G.STomtom Mah. Tosbağa Sok. No:14/2 Galatasaray Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 244 96 29 [email protected] www.dfgs.net

DIJITAL SANATLARAkatlar Mah. 6. Gazeteciler Sitesi 1. Söltaş Evleri Menekşe Sok. No:12 1. Levent Istanbul T: +90 212 282 73 45 F: +90 212 282 73 [email protected] www.dijitalsanatlar.com

EDESSA FILMKonaklar Mah. Akçam Sok. C7 Blok K:2 D:5 Levent Istanbul T: +90 212 324 87 08 F: +90 212 324 67 09 [email protected] www.edessafilms.com

EFLATUN FILM İ.M.Ç.5.Blok No:5332 Unkapanı 34470 Istanbul T: +90 212 528 50 20 F: +90 212 528 50 [email protected] www.eflatunfilm.com.tr

EKIP FILMŞakir Kesebir Cad. Gazi Umur Paşa Sok. Bimar Plaza 38/1 Balmumcu Beşiktaş IstanbulT: +90 212 288 97 07 F: +90 212 272 10 [email protected] www.ekipfilm.com

ENERGY PRODUCTIONMecidiye Köprü,sok No:4 Ortaköy Istanbul T: +90 212 259 96 94 F: +90 212 259 95 [email protected] www.energymedya.com

ERLER FILMErtürk Sok. No:5 34810 Kavacık Beykoz Istanbul T: +90 216 425 12 50 F: +90 216 425 12 [email protected] www.erlerfilm.com

ERMAN FILMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok., Erman Han, 5/5 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 244 32 02 F: +90 212 249 51 [email protected] www.ermanfilm.com

ESI FILMŞemsettin Günaltay Cad. Oral Sok. No:2/11 Kozyatağı Istanbul TurkeyT: +90 216 372 09 67 F: +90 216 464 83 [email protected]

ESR FILM YAPIMHocapaşa Mah. Orhaniye Cad. No:27 Kat: 5 Sirkeci Eminönü Istanbul T: +90 212 519 92 99 F: +90 212 519 92 [email protected] www.esr.com.tr

ESRA FILMBestekar Şevkibey Sok. No: 8, 80700 Balmumcu Beşiktaş Istanbul T: +90 212 274 48 19 F: +90 212 272 92 [email protected] www.esrafilm.com.tr

EVCI FILM PRODUCTION COMPANYİstiklal Cad. Mis Sok. Tan Apt. 6/6 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 249 58 35 F: +90 212 249 58 [email protected] www.evcifilm.com

EYLUL FILM Gayrettepe Mah. Sebat Sok. No: 3 Gayrettepe Istanbul T: +90 212 273 05 53 F: +90 212 273 05 54 [email protected] www.eylulfilm.com

FIDA FILMLevent Mah. Şakayıklı Sok. No: 15, 34330 3. Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 325 90 10 F: +90 212 325 90 [email protected] www.fidafilm.com

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FILMA-CASSDereboyu Cad. G42 Sok. No:303/4 80670 Maslak Istanbul T: +90 212 286 09 40 F: +90 212 2866 20 [email protected] www.filmacass.com.tr

FILMA LTD. Zeytinoğlu Cad. Sarı Konaklar İş Merkezi A Blok D.6 34335 Akatlar IstanbulT: +90 212 352 09 60 F: +90 212 352 09 [email protected] www.filma.com.tr

FILMAKARİnönü Cad. Gözcü Apt. No:35/2 Kat:2 34437 Gümüşsuyu Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 244 23 43 F: +90 212 244 72 [email protected] www.filmakar.com

FILM KONSEPTKuloğlu Mah. Gazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. Yeni Melek Han 17/8 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 244 43 34 F: +90 212 244 03 32 [email protected] www.filmkonsept.com

FILM POP FILMCILIK Çilekli Cad. No:12 34330 3. Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 324 87 00 F: +90 212 324 87 89 [email protected] www.filmpop.com.tr

GEZICI FILMBallıbaba Sok No: 74/22 Küçükesat AnkaraT: +90 312 466 34 84 F: +90 312 466 43 31 [email protected]

GU-FILMBirlik Sok. No: 24/A D:18 1. Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 268 17 32 F: +90 212 268 17 [email protected] www.gu-film.com

GULERYUZ FILMİstiklal Cad. İmam Adnan Sok. Çağatay İşhanı No:17/51 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 225 10 90 F: +90 212 225 10 [email protected] www.havarfilm.com

HAYAL AVCILARI FğLM PRODÜKSğYONTorlak Fırın Sok. No:2 K:1 Rumelihisarı Sarıyer IstanbulT: +90 212 358 60 06 F: +90 212 358 60 11 [email protected]

HERMES FILMİhsan Aksoy Sok. No:7 K:2 Çamlık 34337 Etiler Istanbul T: +90 212 265 93 93 F: +90 212 265 94 [email protected] www.hermesfilm.com

IN WORKS FILM PRODUCTIONS Hayriye Cad. 5/7, 34433 Galatasaray IstanbulT: +90 212 292 55 38 F: +90 212 292 55 [email protected] www.ismailnecmi-works.com

INLINE PRODUCTIONSSülünlü Sok. No:5, 34330 2. Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 269 80 97 F: +90 212 269 80 [email protected] www.inline.com.tr

INLEYEN NAGMELERÖmer Rüştü Paşa Sok. Nur Apt. No: 11/9 Teşvikiye IstanbulT: +90 212 259 22 25 F: +90 212 259 58 [email protected]

IRFAN FILMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. No:3/4-5 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 244 11 63 F: +90 212 252 43 [email protected] www.irfanfilm.com

ISTISNAI FILMLER Itri Sok. No:20 34349 Balmumcu Beşiktaş Istanbul T: +90 212 288 95 00 F: +90 212 288 96 [email protected] www.ifr.com.tr

ISLER PRODUCTIONKılıçalipaşa Mah. Altın Bilezik Sok. 9/4 Cihangir IstanbulT: +90 212 245 52 01 F: +90 212 245 52 [email protected] www.isler.tv

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JEK FILM Kefçedede Mah. Namık Paşa Sok. No: 13-2 Üsküdar IstanbulT: +90 216 334 43 [email protected] www.jekfilm.com

KAPLAN FILMSüreyya Ağaoğlu Sok. Hatay Apt No: 41/7 34365 Teşvikiye Istanbul T: +90 212 291 29 95 F: +90 212 291 29 [email protected] www.kaplanfilm.com

KARA FILMİstiklal Cad. Halep Han No:140/45-46 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 244 81 23 F: +90 212 244 81 [email protected] www.karafilm.com.tr

KARA KEDI FILMSaffet Rona Sok. Kule Apt. 8/1 Kuyubaşı Istanbul T: +90 216 348 85 60 F: +90 216 348 85 [email protected] www.peritozufilm.com

KARIZMA FILM Ayazpaşa Cami Sok. No:2 K:4 D:5 Gümüşsuyu Taksim IstanbulT: +90 212 292 61 64 F: +90 212 292 64 63 [email protected]

KILIC FILMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok, No: 15, Dalyan Han, K: 2-3, Beyoğlu 34433 IstanbulT: +90 212 245 15 84 F: +90 212 244 16 [email protected] www.kilicfilm.com.tr

KUZEY FILM PRODUCTIONGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. No:6 K:3 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 252 36 05 F: +90 212 252 36 06 [email protected]

LEOPAR FILM Kırmızı Sok. No: 7/4 Ortaköy IstanbulT: +90 212 261 93 09 [email protected] www.leoparfilm.com

LIMON PRODUCTIONE. İsmail Hakkı Bey Sok. No:5 Balmumcu Beşiktaş IstanbulT: +90 212 347 34 50 F: +90 212 266 10 [email protected]

LUP FILMOba Sok. No:17/2 Cihangir Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 292 72 78 F: +90 212 292 72 [email protected] www.lupfilm.com

MAG FILMTarlabaşı Cad. No:10/8 Taksim Istanbul T: +90 212 254 54 82 F: +90 212 414 83 [email protected]

MAVI FILMOba Sok. 11/4 Cihangir IstanbulT: +90 212 292 71 70 F: +90 212 292 71 [email protected] www.demirkubuz.com

MEDYAVIZYON Cumhuriyet Cad. Pegasus Evi No:26 K:4 34367 Harbiye IstanbulT: +90 212 296 05 05 F: +90 212 225 90 [email protected] medyavizyon.com.tr

MIA YAPIMBayar Cad. Derya Apt. No:90 K:5/10 34742 Kozyatağı Kadıköy Istanbul T: +90 216 445 60 01 F: +90 216 445 60 [email protected] www.miayapim.com

MINE FILMAyhan Işık Sok. Girik Han No:28/2 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 243 02 00 F: +90 212 245 67 74 [email protected]

MINT (MADE IN TURKEY)Murat Reis Mah. Hacı Murat Sok. No:9 Bağlarbaşı Üsküdar IstanbulT: +90 216 495 05 60 F: +90 216 495 85 [email protected] www.mint.com.tr

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MUHTESEM FILM PRODUCTIONLevent Mah. Lale Sok. No: 17 Levent Istanbul T: +90 212 324 02 45 F: +90 212 279 91 [email protected] www.muhtesemfilm.com

NADA FILMİmam Adnan Sok. No: 17 K:4 D:53 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 251 57 13 F: +90 212 251 57 [email protected]

NARSIST FILM8. Gazeteciler Sitesi, Yıldırım Oğuz Göker Cad. A3 Blok 6, Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 284 02 12 F: +90 212 284 02 [email protected]

NBC FILMBaşkurt Sok. 19/4 Ürgüp Palas Apt. Cihangir Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 249 69 62 F: +90 212 293 10 08 [email protected]

NEZIH UNEN PRODUCTION Boyalı Köşk Sok. 5/1 Sözer Apt. D:8 Arnavutköy Istanbul T: +90 212 263 46 66 F: +90 212 263 49 30 [email protected] www.nezihunen.com

NOBETCI YAPIMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. Yeni Melek Han No:17/3 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 249 06 [email protected]

OYUNCULAR LTD. İstiklal Cad. Rumeli Han No: 88/4 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 245 13 14 F: +90 212 245 50 [email protected]

OZEN FILMAtıf Yılmaz Cad. No 11 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 293 70 70 F: +90 212 244 28 [email protected] www.ozenfilm.com.tr

PAN FILMSıraselviler Cad. Soğancı Sok. No:19/17 80060 Cihangir Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 251 04 63 F: +90 212 244 24 47 [email protected] www.panfilm.com.tr

PLATO FILMAkyol Cad. Vişne Sok. No:14/2 Cihangir Istanbul T: +90 212 252 45 83 F: +90 212 249 35 84 [email protected] www.platofilm.com

PHS Film Prodüksiyon A.ğ.Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Cad. No:34 Altunizade Üsküdar Istanbul T: +90 216 475 45 19 F: +90 216 474 44 [email protected]

PI FILMKumbaracı Yokuşu Tercüman Çıkmazı No: 16 K: 1 D: 2 Tünel Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 292 04 10 F: +90 212 292 30 [email protected]

POSTA PRODUCTIONAltunizade Erdem Sok. Sabuncuoğlu Sitesi B Blok D:8 Altunizade Üsküdar IstanbulT: +90 216 651 88 28 F: +90 216 474 44 [email protected]

PROMETE FILMBağdat Cad. Selçuk Sindal Sok. No:3/8 34724 Feneryolu Istanbul T: +90 216 550 69 22 F: +90 216 550 69 30 [email protected] www.prometefilm.com

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RH POLITIC PRODUCTIONSİmam Adnan Sok. No:7 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 249 70 46 F: +90 212 249 80 06 [email protected] www.reiscelik.com

SANMAL FILM PRODUCTIONVeli Alemdar Han No:428 80030 Karaköy Istanbul T: +90 212 244 34 16 F: +90 212 251 83 29 [email protected] www.sanmal.com.tr

SARMAğIK SANATLARSilahşör Cad. No:20-22 D:5 34381 Şişli Istanbul T: +90 212 219 53 35 F: +90 212 219 53 [email protected]

SINEFILMTarık Zafer Tunaya Sok. Açık Deniz Apt. No: 2/12 IstanbulT: +90 212 251 74 70 F: +90 212 251 72 [email protected] www.sinefilm.com

SINEGRAF FILMSalih Omurtak Cad. No:80 80020 Koşuyolu Istanbul T: +90 216 545 06 73 F: +90 216 545 06 [email protected] www.sinegraf.com

SINEMA AJANSKocatepe Mah. Şehitmuhtar Cad. No:41/3 Taksim Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 361 72 45 F: +90 212 361 72 [email protected] www.sinemaajans.com

SPLENDID PICTURESKocatepe Mah. Şehit Muhtar Cad. Cemali Apt. No: 22/1 Taksim IstanbulT: +90 212 255 59 94 F: +90 212 255 39 [email protected] www.splendidpictures.com

SUGARWORKZİstiklal Cad. Kuloğlu Mah. Gazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. Kamil Bey Apt. 18/2 34433 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 244 92 39 F: +90 212 244 92 48 [email protected] www.sugarworkz.com

ğAN FILMSilahşör Cad. No:20/22 D:5 Şişli Istanbul T: +90 212 219 53 35 F: +90 212 219 53 [email protected]

TERSINE FILMLERAsmalı Mescit Mah. Nergis Sok. 8/8 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 252 47 50 F: +90 212 252 83 [email protected]

TIGLON Dereboyu Cad. Meydan Sok. No:28 Beybi Giz Plaza K:6 No:19-20 34398 Maslak Istanbul T: +90 212 290 37 37 F: +90 212 290 37 38 [email protected] www.tiglon.com.tr

TIMS PRODUCTIONNispetiye Cad. Yücel Sok. Arıcan Sitesi No: 3 B Blok K:4 D:9 1.Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 324 99 86 F: +90 212 324 99 [email protected] www.tims.tv

TMC FILMGazeteciler Sitesi Dergiler Sok. No:29/2 Esentepe Istanbul T: +90 212 288 92 60 F: +90 212 288 92 [email protected] www.tmc.com.tr

ULUSLARARASI FILM Hariciye Konağı Sok. Park Apt. No: 11/5Gümüşsuyu Istanbul T: +90 212 293 46 78 [email protected]

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UMUT SANATAkasyalı Sok. No: 18, 80650 4. Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 325 88 88 F: +90 212 278 32 [email protected] USTAOGLU FILM YAPIMKumrulu Sok. Martı Apartmanı 24/A1 Cihangir IstanbulT/F: + 90 212 251 90 [email protected]

VENUS FILMMecidiye Cad. 49 – A Blok Daire: 5 Mecidiyeköy IstanbulT: +90 212 356 57 76 F: +90 212 356 57 [email protected]

YALAN DUNYA FILM Sofya Sok. Asmalı Mescit Mah. Ilıç İşhanı 18/12 Tünel Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 245 90 33 [email protected]

YAPIM 13 FILMElmadağ Cad. Duvardibi Sok. No:61/2 Şişli Istanbul T: +90 212 232 60 63 F: +90 212 230 31 [email protected]

YENI SINEMACILIK Turnacıbaşı Sok. No:5/2 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 245 66 06 [email protected] www.yenisinemacilik.com

YENI NESIL FILMAtıfet Sok. No:18/26 Moda Istanbul T: +90 216 414 83 92 F: +90 216 414 83 [email protected]

YENIDEN FILM General Yazgan Sk. No:1/341 Geçit Han C Blok Tünelmeydanı IstanbulT: +90 212 245 40 64 F: +90 212 245 40 [email protected] www.yenidenfilm.com

YESILCAM FILMCILIKHalep İşhanı 140/67 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 252 79 13 F: +90 212 251 32 [email protected] www.yesilcamfilmcilik.com

ZEYNO FILMAkkavak Sok. Defne Apt. 6/2 34365 Nişantaşı Istanbul T: +90 212 224 01 98 F: +90 212 291 72 [email protected]

ZEBIL FILMİstiklal Cad. No:201 Anadolu Pasajı Kat:2 Beyoğlu Taksim IstanbulT: +90 212 252 07 36 F: +90 0212 293 01 [email protected] www.zebilyapim.com

ZUSI FILM Yanarsu Sok. Basın Sitesi C25 Etiler Istanbul T: +90 212 265 86 58 F: +90 212 265 86 [email protected]

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35 MILIM FILMİstiklal Cad. Erol Dernek Sok. Erman Han No: 5 D: 4-A 34433 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 251 46 16 F: +90 212 251 46 [email protected] www.35milim.net

A PLUS FILMS Mecidiyekoy Musa Dayı Sok. No: 4 Can Iş Mrk. D:4 Şişli Istanbul T: +90 212 216 27 17 F: +90 212 216 00 27 [email protected]

AE FILM Menekşeli Sok. No:22 Levent 80620 Istanbul T: +90 212 324 92 92 F: +90 212 282 76 62 [email protected] www.aefilm.com

A.F.S. FILM Yeniçarşı Caddesi, 88/2-3, Galatasaray Istanbul T: +90 212 292 67 92 F: +90 212 251 05 [email protected] www.afsfilm.com

ANKARA ASSOCIATION FOR CINEMA CULTURE Kızılırmak Sok. No:14/1 Kızılay 06640 Ankara T: +90 312 425 54 25 F: +90 312 425 24 [email protected] www.askfest.org

ANS PRODUCTION Teşvikiye Palas 107/6 Teşvikiye 34365 IstanbulT: +90 212 259 77 85 F: +90 212 227 56 [email protected] www.ans.com.tr

ATLANTIK MEDYA MARKETING Ata 2, Kasımpatı Sok. No:6 Çengelköy Istanbul T: +90 216 486 27 87 F: +90 216 651 23 [email protected] www.atlantikmedya.com

AVğAR FILMİnönü Caddesi Gümüş Apartmanı No:49/2 Gümüşsuyu Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 251 34 77-78 F: +90 212 249 69 [email protected] www.avsarfilm.com.tr

BARBAR FILMKamer Hatun Mah., Hammalbaşı Caddesi, Parma Apt. 28/5 34435 Galatasaray Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 244 51 59 F: +90 212 244 99 [email protected] www.barbarfilm.com

BELGE FILMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. No: 3/4 34433 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 252 25 25 F: +90 212 251 36 [email protected] www.belgefilm.com

BESTLINE PICTURESMuallim Naci Caddesi Işık Apt. 49/10 Ortaköy Istanbul T: +90 212 236 92 92 F: +90 212 236 92 [email protected] www.bestlinepictures.com

BIR FILMKuloğlu Mah. Ayhan Işık Sok. Özverim Apt. 32/1 34433 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 251 82 04 F: +90 212 251 82 [email protected] www.birfilm.com

CALINOS ENTERTAINMENT Gümüşşsuyu Mah. İnönü Cad. Mithatpaşa Apt. No:48 K:4 D:8 Taksim Istanbul T: +90 212 243 64 40 F: +90 212 249 74 08 [email protected] www.calinos.com

DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES

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CHANTIER FILMSMumhane Sok. No: 3 P.K. 34345 Arnavutköy Beşiktaş IstanbulT: +90 212 358 59 59 F: +90 212 358 59 [email protected] www.chantierfilms.com

D PRODUCTIONS Doğan TV Center 34204 Bağcılar Istanbul T: +90 212 413 59 67 F: +90 212 413 59 [email protected] www.dpro.com.tr

DENK FILMTunalı Hilmi Caddesi No: 105/3 Kavaklıdere Ankara T: +90 312 466 40 00 F: +90 312 466 44 [email protected] www.denk.com.tr

DORUK FILM İstiklal Cad. Balo Sok. No: 32/3 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 243 61 76 F: +90 212 245 40 66 [email protected] www.dorukfilm.com.tr

EPS FILM Bağdat Cad, No: 97/1, Kızıltoprak, Kadıköy34724 IstanbulT: +90 216 414 56 00 F: +90 216 414 86 [email protected]

ERLER FILMErtürk Sok. No: 5 Kavacık Beykoz IstanbulT: +90 216 425 12 50-66 F: +90 216 425 12 69 [email protected] www.erlerfilm.com

ERMAN FILMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok., Erman Han, 5/5 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 244 32 02 F: +90 212 249 51 [email protected] www.ermanfilm.com

FIDA FILMLevent Mah. Şakayıklı Sok. No: 15, 34330 3. Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 325 90 10 F: +90 212 325 90 [email protected] www.fidafilm.com

FILM POP Çilekli Cad. No:12, 34330 3. Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 324 87 00 F: +90 212 324 87 [email protected] www.filmpop.com.tr

FILMA LTD. Zeytinoğlu Cad. Sarı Konaklar İş Merkezi A Blok D.6 34335 Akatlar IstanbulT: +90 212 352 09 60 F: +90 212 352 09 [email protected] www.filma.com.tr

FONO FILMYerebatan Caddesi No: 34 Sultanahmet Istanbul T: +90 212 519 02 67 F: +90 212 511 57 [email protected] www.fonofilm.com.tr

IRFAN FILMGazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. No: 3/1 34433 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 244 11 63 F: +90 212 252 43 [email protected] www.irfanfilm.com

KENDAMecidiye Mah. Camii Sok. No: 4 Ortaköy Istanbul T: +90 212 259 30 30 F: +90 212 259 49 [email protected]

LIMON PRODUCTIONE. İsmail Hakkı Bey Sok., No:3 Balmumcu 34349 Beşiktaş Istanbul T: +90 212 347 34 50 F: +90 212 266 10 [email protected] www.limonproduction.com

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MARS PRODUCTION Istiklal Cad. Mim Han No: 55 K: 734433 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 244 82 52 F: +90 212 244 82 [email protected] www.marsfilm.net

MAXXIMUM SINEMANispetiye Mah. Fecri Ebcioğlu Sok. Sevgi Sitesi A Blok D: 1, 1.Levent Istanbul T: +90 212 283 59 95 F: +90 212 283 59 [email protected] www.maxximumfilm.com/tr

MEDYAVIZYON FILM Cumhuriyet Cad. Pegasus Evi No: 26 K:4 34367 Harbiye Istanbul T: +90 212 296 05 05 F: +90 212 225 90 [email protected] www.medyavizyon.com.tr

OZEN FILMAtıf Yılmaz Cad. No 11 Beyoğlu IstanbulT: +90 212 293 70 70-71 F: +90 212 244 28 [email protected] www.ozenfilm.com.tr

PI FILMKumbaracı Yokuşu Tercüman Çıkmazı No: 16 K: 1 D: 2 Tünel Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 292 04 10 F: +90 212 292 30 [email protected] www.pifilmproduction.com

PINEMA FILM Büyükdere Cad, Nur Apt. No: 159, K: 7, D: 15, 34394 Zincirlikuyu IstanbulT: +90 212 288 50 05 F: +90 212 288 50 [email protected] www.pinema.com

R FILMAydın Sok., No: 2/6 Levent 34330 Istanbul T: +90 212 282 83 29 F: +90 212 282 83 32 [email protected] www.rfilm.net

SARAN MEDIA Çayırbaşı Mah. Hacı Osman Bayırı No:6534453 Sarıyer Istanbul T: +90 212 363 04 08 F: +90 212 363 04 [email protected] www.sarangroup.com

SINETEL FILMAğa Camii Arkası Mahyeci Sok. Eren Han No: 21 K: 2 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 243 08 08 F: +90 212 243 08 [email protected]

SUGARWORKZİstiklal Caddesi, Kuloğlu Mah., Gazeteci Erol Dernek Sok. Kamil Bey Apt. 18/2 Beyoğlu Istanbul T: +90 212 244 92 39 F: +90 212 244 92 [email protected] www.sugarworkz.com

TIGLON Dereboyu Cad. Meydan Sok. No: 28 Beybi Giz Plaza K: 6 No: 19-20 34398 Maslak Istanbul T: +90 212 290 37 37 F: +90 212 290 37 38 [email protected] www.tiglon.com.tr

TILSIM DESIGN & PRODUCTIONS Perpa Ticaret Merkezi B Blok Kat:13 No:2422 Okmeydanı Şişli Istanbul T: +90 212 222 42 71 F: +90 212 222 63 59 [email protected] TMCGazeteciler Sitesi Dergiler Sok. 29/2 Esentepe IstanbulT: +90 212 288 92 60 F: +90 212 288 92 [email protected] www.tmc.com.tr

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U.I.P.Spor Caddesi Acısu Sok. Tahsin Bey Apt. No:1 K:1 D: 7-8 Maçka Istanbul T: +90 212 227 82 05 F: +90 212 227 82 [email protected] www.uip.com.tr

UMUT SANATAkasyalı Sok. No: 18, 80650 4. Levent IstanbulT: +90 212 325 88 88 F: +90 212 278 32 [email protected] www.umutsanat.com.tr WARNER BROSCumhuriyet Caddesi Pegasus Evi No: 26 K: 5 Harbiye IstanbulT: +90 212 219 20 30 F: +90 212 219 20 [email protected]

contacts in cannesTurkish Pavillon No: 132 Village International

Ahmet Boyacıoğlu • Başak EmrePhone: 04 93 99 85 50

This catalogue was edited by Ankara Cinema Association / Festival on Wheels.

Abay Kunanbay Caddesi No: 20/13 Kavaklıdere, Ankara TURKEYT: +90 312 466 34 84 - 466 47 28 • F: +90 312 466 43 [email protected] www.festivalonwheels.org

Doku Tasarım Design • +90 312 418 70 93 - 94

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