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Programme One
• Cert 15
 ASSUVA'S
CHILDREN (Assuvanin Cocuklari)
Director: Mesude Eglmez
Turkey / DV / Documentary / 26m
A brief history of the civilisations that have settled in
Assuva, in north east Turkey, since 2400BC.
 BURIED
ALIVE (Diri Gomulen)
Director: A.S. Hakan Gök
Turkey / Digital 8 / Drama / 9m
A short story by Iranian author Sadik Hidayet about the impossibility
of finding happiness in this world.
 GERMAN
CHESS (Alman Satranci)
Director: Kemal Çipe
Turkey / Betacam / Drama / 21m
A Jewish man questions himself after surviving concentration
camps where chess playing was turned into a form of torture.
 PROXEMICS
Director: Emre Akay
Turkey / Kodak süper 8 / Drama / 7m
A mysterious suitcase haunts its owner.
 THE
LOVERS FROM THE OSMAN HOTEL (Osman'in Otelindeki Asiklar)
Director: Idil Üner
Germany / 35mm / Drama / 14m
A couple from Berlin stay in a hotel for the night. The owner
of the hotel, Osman has got cynical plans for the couple.
Will he be successful in his plans?
 THE
DRIVER (Sofor)
Director: Guldem Durmaz
Belgium/35mm/Drama/17m
A man drives an invisible car in Istanbul. A girl at a point
in her life without yesterday or tomorrow. The bodies meet
the driver and his passenger.
 THE
CHORUS (Koro)
Director: Güldem Durmaz
Belgium / 35mm / Drama / 13m
In a nameless country, anonymous people speaking a wordless
language visit the prisoners in a military fortress, but when
the free and the chained meet, the sounds and emotions are
universally recognisable.
Interval
 THEY
COME TO PICK ME UP (Beni Almaya Geldiler)
Director: Ilana Navaro
Turkey / Betacam / Drama / 20m
Julia is a 65 year old Jewish woman. She and her granddaughter
Aviva have got just a few days in Istanbul before they move
to Israel.
 STAY
(Kal)
Director: University of Bilgi, Film Workshop Students
Turkey / Betacam / Drama / 4m
All she ever wanted to hear was just one word; all she got
was negligence and contempt. All she could do was to go, but
she was just too sad to decide 'how' she wanted to go…
 THE
BRIEF OF MY LIFE (Hayatimin Ozeti)
Director: Tan Tolga Demirci
Turkey / Mini DV / Experimental / 10m
The anxieties of a paranoid man, afraid of being killed,
are told in a surreal form.
NIGHTMARE
(Kabus)
Director: University of Bilgi, Film Workshop students
Turkey / Betacam / Drama / 9m
I actually like him, but sometimes I get completely mad at
him. Sometimes, I wish there were other things in my life,
but then, I fear that they would turn into a nightmare…
 A
WINTER TALE (Bir Kis Masali)
Director: University of Bilgi, Film Workshop students
Turkey / Betacam / Drama / 6m
To water the plants, to recall the memories, to share a bowl
of salad. To get old, to grow apart, to still love and to
always stay together with our loved ones.
 AFTER…
(Sonra…)
Director: Metin Yegin
Turkey / DV / Documentary / 24m
The story of Wernico-Korsikoff disease sufferers who lost
their memory function after more than a year of hunger strikes
in Turkey.
Programme
Two •
Cert 15
IDENTITY (Kimlik)
Director: Erim Metto
UK / DV / Documentary / 22m
How does being part of two cultures affect the second generation
of Turkish Cypriots and their careers in the UK?
 121/77
Director: Muge Cetinkaya
UK / Betacam / Documentary / 26m
The director of the film suffers from Lupus, an incurable
disease. This is an honest account of her 12 week treatment.
 STRANGERS
(Yabancilar)
Director: Ozan Onat
UK / DV / Drama / 17m
Mehmet visits his sister who he hasn't seen for a long time,
in England. After realising how much she has changed he questions
his own identity and his past.
 TURKISH
COFFEE (Turk Kahvesi)
Director: Erim Metto
UK / DV / Drama / 26m
Leyla is a young Turkish girl at Fashion College. Her family
force her into an arranged marriage.
Interval
SHORTS FROM BALIK ARTS
This year Balik Arts present three short
films by young people who live in London. The films are funded
by different projects (as indicated).
 WHEN
THE CHILDREN IMMIGRATE (Cocuklar Goc Ettiginde)
Director: Group Work
UK / dv / Documentary / 11m (Neighbourhood Support Fund)
A group of children look at the problems of children whose
parents immigrated.
 WHEN
FUAT MEETS LONDON (Fuat Londra ile Tanistiginda)
Director: Group Work
UK / dv / Drama / 15m (Neighbourhood Support Fund and Hackney
Summer Plus Programme)
A young man finds that his experience does not match his
expectations when he comes to London to learn English.
 THE
SCREAM FROM WITHIN (Icimdeki Ciglik)
Director: Group Work
UK / dv / Drama / 14m (Hackney Safer Communities Partnership)
An immigrant family work day and night. Communication with
their young daughter becomes severely damaged.
 LEYLA
ZANA
Director: Kudret Gunes
France / Documentary / 51m / Kurdish, Turkish and French with
English subtitles
Leyla Zana, the first woman Kurdish MP to be elected to the
Turkish Parliament in 1992, was impisoned in 1994 for 15 years
for speaking in Kurdish in the Parliament. Kudret Gunes' personal
look at the life of Zana takes her to her birth-place, friends
and exiled husband.
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