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Butterflies

Turkey, 2018, 117 minutes, Color, Turkish; Turkish Sign Language


2018 Sundance FF; Grand Jury Prize Bucharest FF; Best Film İstanbul FF; Best Actor, Special Prize of the Jury Ankara FF; Best Director, Best Actress, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actress

Director:  Tolga Karaçelik

Screenplay: Tolga Karaçelik
Cinematography: Andaç Şahan
Editing: Evren Lus
Music: Ahmet Kenan Bilgiç
Production: Karaçelik Film Yapım
Cast: Tolga Tekin, Bartu Küçükçağlayan, Tuğçe Altuğ, Serkan Keskin, Hakan Karsak, Ezgi Mola, Ercan Kesal

Close-up of an astronaut’s face. The astronaut is Cemal. Kenan dubs home videos for a living. In a classroom, kindergarten teacher Suzan weeps frantically. They are the children of Mazhar. Now, after being 30 years apart, their father calls them back to village of Hasanlar. They don’t know why. When they arrive to Hasanlar, they realise that their father is dead and in his will he asks to be buried when the butterflies come to the village to die; one of the many strangeness of this village. Three siblings who neither know each other nor anything about their father will have to kill time in this village while waiting for the time of the butterflies. As they start to find out more about their father and about each other, they also start to know more about themselves.