Something Useful
Germany, France, Netherlands, Turkey, 2017, 104 minutes, Color, Turkish; Turkish Sign Language
2017 İstanbul FF; FIPRESCI Prize Tallinn Black Nights FF; Best Screenplay Adana FF; Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Cinematography
Director: Pelin Esmer
Screenplay: Pelin Esmer, Barış Bıçakçı
Cinematography: Gökhan Tiryaki
Editing: Pelin Esmer, Evren Luş
Production: Sinefilm, Mars Productions, Les Films de l’Après-Midi, Topkapı Films, Mitos Film, Mars Production, Sine Films
Cast: Başak Köklükaya, Öykü Karayel, Yiğit Özşener, Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu, Berfu Öngören
Why would someone like Leyla go to a high school reunion dinner? And take an overnight train to get there?! After all, she hasn’t been to a single one for the last 25 years… What is Canan, a student nurse, doing on the train? Reluctantly going to an interview for a nursing job when she would like to be an actress instead. And Yavuz? He spends all day lying by the window watching the passing hawkers, horse carriages and people. He is waiting for Canan, or maybe Leyla, or maybe a executioner and a poet who meet on a train one night.