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Black Dogs Barking
Kara Köpekler Havlaken
Without
Borders and Debut Films
2009, 90 minutes, 35 mm, color;
Turkish with English subtitles
Directed by Mehmet Bahadr Er and Maryna Gorbach
Cinematography by Sviatoslav Bulakovskyi
Edited by Maryna Gorbach, Mehmet Bahadr Er
Produced by Mehmet Bahadr Er
Featuring Cemal Tokta, Volga Sorgu Tekinolu, Erkan Can, Ayfer Dnmez,
Taylan Ertugrul, Ergun Kuyucu, Mehmet Usta, Muhammed Cangren, Murat
Daltaban
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Black Dogs Barking- Kara Köpekler Havlaken
Directors: Mehmet Bahadir Er, Maryna
Gorbach
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399198/
November 14, Saturday 1:00PM
Black
Dogs Barking, the first feature film from director, Mehmet Bahadr Er, is
the story of two best friends, Selim and Caa whose dreams of wealth turn
to nightmares when they get involved with the local mafia. The two
troublemakers live on the outskirts of Istanbul where they spend their
days raising pet pigeons, and hanging out with their aimless friends.
When the cash-strapped friends decide to start a parking lot business
near a high-end shopping center, they get a local crime mob to finance
the project. Things get out of hand when the police discover their
involvement in the underground scene. Filmed in the neighborhood where
he spent many years of his life, Bahadr Er beautifully brings his
experiences and relationships to life on the big screen.
FESTIVALS-AWARDS
2009 38.th Rotterdam Iff - World Premiere
2009 46.th Antalya Iff - Competition - Best co-actor
2009 31.st Moscow Iff - Asian Etreme
2009 17.th Hamburg Iff - Vibirant Metropolities
2009 25.th Warsaw Iff - Competition 1-2 Films
2009 35.th Seattle Iff - Contemporary world cinema
2009 54.th Seminci Valladoid - Competition 1-2 Films
2009 45.th Pesaro Iff - Competition
2009 31.st Montpellier Iff - Panorama
2009 32.th Denver Starz Iff - World Cinema
2009 33.rd Cario Iff - Festivals of Festival
2009 35.th Ghent Iff - Official Selection
2009 20.th Stockholm Iff - Asian Images
2009 23.rd Wine CounryIFF - Official Sellection
2009 19.th Fukuoka Iff - Focus on Asia
2009 6.th Yerevan Iff - Directors of Crosing Borders
MEHMET
Bahadir ER
Born in 1982 in Turkey Mehmet Bahadr Er is currently a film student in
Istanbul. The Earthquake (2005), one of his short films, received the
Best Short Film award at the Istanbul Independent Film Festival. Black
Dogs Barking, is his first feature.
MARYNA GORBACH
Maryna Gorbach was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1981. She graduated from the
Kiev National University of Theatre, Cinema and TV in 2006. Her first
short film, The Jar (2004) won several short film awards in different
international festivals. The Debt was her thesis film. Currently she is
working on her feature debut at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film
Directing in Warsaw, Poland.
Filmography
Mehmet Bahadir Er
2009 Kara Kpekler Havlarken / Black Dogs Barking (co-dir.)
2007 Araf / The Heights
2006 Umut / Hope
2005 Zilzal / The Earthquake
2004 Goygoy
MARYNA Gorbach
2009 Kara Kpekler Havlarken / Black Dogs Barking (co-dir.)
2006 The Debt
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Three Monkeys - Üç Maymun
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
November 14, Saturday 2:30PM
Winner - Best Director Prize; Cannes Film Festival 2008
Three Monkeys (Uç Maymun)
2008 / 35mm / 2.35:1 / 109 min.
In Turkish with English Subtitles
Cast & Credits
Featuring Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Ercan Kesal,
Cafer Köse, Gürkan Aydın
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Written by Ebru Ceylan, Ercan Kesal, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Produced by Zeynep Özbatur
Co-produced by Fabienne Vonier, Valerio De Paolis, Cemal Noyan, Nuri
Bilge Ceylan
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Three Monkeys - Üç Maymun
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
http://www.moonandstarsproject.org/diger/threemonkeys.shtml
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233381/
November 14, Saturday 3:00PM
Winner - Best Director Prize; Cannes Film Festival 2008
"Turkish thriller is an atmospheric masterclass... This level of screen
chemistry is truly rare."
James Christopher (Times)
"The Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has always struck me as one of
cinema's poets. With this movie, however, he looks like one of cinema's
novelists..."
Peter Bradshaw (Guardian)
“ … Three Monkeys is a film you digest. It repeats in your thoughts
after you've seen it. Much of it works in silence. Characters think
their way through it. But you always know what they are feeling. Ceylan
is so in tune with his characters, he can write inner thoughts large on
screen. …”
Paul Lynch (Sunday Tribune)
After his critically acclaimed mood pieces Distant and Climates,
Turkey’s leading filmmaker moves in a more plot-driven direction while
retaining his mastery of ambience, nuance and astonishing
cinematography.
Three Monkeys tells a twisty, nourish tale that opens with an ambitious
politician fleeing a hit-and-run accident. Afraid of hurting his
election chances, he pays off his chauffeur Eyüp to take the rap. The
film concerns the effects of this devil’s bargain on Eyüp’s family as
simmering tensions and sexual intrigue wreaks havoc in a household
already haunted by hidden ghosts.
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?
Festivals and Awards
2009 Yeşilçam Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best
Actress (Hatice Aslan), Best Cinematography,
Best New Talent (Ahmet Rıfat Şungar)
2009 SIYAD Turkish Crictic’s Awards: Best Director, Best Actress (Hatice
Aslan), Best Editing,
Best Promising Young Talent (Ahmet Rıfat Şungar)
2008 Cannes Film Festival: Best Director
2008 Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival: Best Director
2008 “Manaki Brothers” Film Camera Festival: Mosfilm Award, Special
Mention
2008 Haifa Film Festival: Best Film (Golden Anchor)
2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards: Best Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul in 1959 and was brought up in the
rural region of Antelonia. After initially studying engineering, he
changed track and studied filmmaking at Mimar Sinan University in
Istanbul. An accomplished photographer, he was first noticed for his
1995 short film Koza (The Cocoon), which was a Cannes Film Festival
selection, later he shot his first full-length film, Kasaba (The Small
Town), in 1997. The Small Town won the Special Prize of the Jury at the
Nantes Film Festival, the Caligari Award at the Berlin Film Festival,
and the Best Film and Best Cinematography Awards at Cologne Film
Festival. Ceylan’s second feature film, Mayıs Sıkıntısı (Clouds of May)
won 18 international awards including Best Film at Premiere Plans Film
Festival, and the International Competition Section of the 19th
International İstanbul Film Festival. Ceylan’s Uzak (Distant) won the
Grand Prix and Best Actor Awards at Cannes Film Festival in 2003.
Filmography
1995 Koza / The Cocoon (short)
1997 Kasaba / The Small Town
1999 Mayıs Sıkıntısı / Clouds of May
2002 Uzak / Distant
2006 İklimler / Climates
2008 Uç Maymun / Three Monkeys
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Mommo
Director: Atalay Taşdiken
Debut
Films
2009, 94 minutes, Color;
Turkish with English subtitles
Written and directed by Atalay Tadiken
Cinematography by Ali zel
Music by Erkan Ogur
Featuring Elif Blbl, Mehmet Blbl, Mehmet Usta
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Mommo
Director: Atalay Taşdiken
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdblink/vi912459033/
November 15, Sunday 1:00PM
Based
on a true story and debuted at the Berlin Film Festival, Mommo portrays
the inner world of two siblings: nine-year old Ali and his younger
sister Ayse. Rejected by their step mother, the pair decides to move in
with Hasan, their crippled elderly grandfather. Filmed in avu village,
near Konya in central Turkey, Atalay Tadiken sheds light on one of
modern lifes most tragic realities using locals as actors, and authentic
landscapes as the backdrop for the film.
FESTIVALS-AWARDS
2009 14th Nurnberg Turkish Germany Film Festival: Best Film and Best
Public Jury Award
2009 16th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival: Best Film in Public Jury
Award and Best Supporting Actor (Mustafa Uzunylmaz)
2009 23th International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
(Hamedan): Best Director and Best Eco Film Awards
2009 8th International Nueva Mirada Film Festival for Childen and Youth:
Best Youth Film and Special Mention Awards
2009 International Children Film Festival, Yarevan (Armenia): Best Film
Award and Best Film Award for Children Rights, UNICEF Award
2009 Dada Film Festival, Erzurum (Turkey): Best Film Award
2009 Asia Pasific: Nominee for Best Children Film
2009 London Film Festival
ATALAY
TASDIKEN
Born in 1964 in Beysehir, Konya, Atalay Tasdiken graduated from Konya's
Selcuk University with a teacher-training degree in physics. In 1991 he
began working in advertising where he honed his skills as a dark room
technician, media representative, copywriter and creative director. Over
the next ten years, he directed over 300 commercials and served as
creative director on some 30 product campaigns. He wrote and directed Be
Numaral Kamp (Camp Number Five), a television film and
Turkish-Russian-Uzbek co-production. In 1996, he made the documentary
Gunes Bile Zor Ayrilir Bu Sehirden (Even the Sun Is Loath to Leave), a
short piece about his hometown, Beysehir.
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Autumn – Sonbahar
Director: Özcan Alper
November 15, Sunday 2:30PM
Debut
Films
2008, 106min.
color, In Turkish with English subtitles
Written and directed by zcan Alper
Cinematography by Canan ayir
Produced by F.Serkan Acar
Featuring Onur Saylak, Raife Yenigl, Megi Kobaladze, Serkan Keskin, Nino
Lejava, Sibel z, Cihan Camkerten, Serhan Pirpir, Yasar Gven
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Autumn – Sonbahar
Director: Özcan Alper
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1330591/
November 15, Sunday 3:00PM
Yusuf
is a 22-year-old college student, just released from prison and headed
to his frail mothers small shack located in the Eastern Black Sea region
of Turkey. Lonely and dejected, Yusufs childhood friend Mikail is the
only person he reconnects with until he meets Eka, a Georgian prostitute
lost in the dreams of a socialist utopia. Though neither the
circumstances nor time is right, a love affair with Eka is Yusufs best
escape from loneliness. Set against the post 90s modern realities and
urban dysfunction, zcan Alpers directorial debut is a highly recommended
do-not-miss psychological drama.
FESTIVALS - Awards
2008 Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Best Film, Best Supporting Female
Actor (Megi Kobaladze), Special Jury Prize (Turkey)
2008 Locarno Film Festival, The Art and Essay Cicae Prize (Switzerland)
SIYAD (Turkish Film Critics Association) Awards, Turkey: Best Film, Best
Script, Best Director, Best Cinematography (Feza aldran), Best Actor (Onur
Saylak)
2008 Eurasia Film Festival, Antalya: Netpac Jury Award (Turkey)
2008 Tbilisi Film Festival, Silver Prometheus Award (Georgia)
2008 Premiers Plans Angers European First Film Festival, Soundtrack
Award (France)
2008 Festival on Wheels: Silver Goose and Critics Awards (Turkey)
2008 Montreal World Film Festival (Canada)
ÖZCAN
ALPER
Born in 1975 in the small town of Artvin in northeastern Turkey, zcan
Alper studied
Physics and the History of Science at Istanbul University. His interest
in cinema drew him to a professional career in filmmaking which started
in 1999. His first short film, Momi, was the first film ever to be shot
in the Hemsin language. That film went on to win a number of awards.
Sonbahar (Autumn), Alper's first feature film, was produced with the
support of Turkeys Culture Ministry.
Filmography
2008 Sonbahar/Autumn
2001 Momi
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