The Long & Short Of It
The Obsolete One
Turkey, 2015, 15 minutes, Color, Turkish
2016 Ankara FF; Special Jury Award Seattle Turkish FF; Best Short Film
Director: Hakan Hücum
Screenplay: Hakan Hücum, Ersin Kiliç
Cinematography: Deniz Pişkin
Editing: Hakan Hücum, Eylem Caner
Music: Feridun Emre Dursun
Production: Hakan Hücum
Cast: Salih Usta, Bertan Dirikolu, Fatoş Özyer
A brand new bust is brought to a small village. State officials who brought it forget to take back the obsolete one. The only teacher at the village school, Şeref, assigns the duty of protecting the old one to the janitor İzzet. This burden will lead İzzet’s life to an impasse.
The Bone
Turkey, 2014, 5 minutes, Color, Turkish
Director: Volkan Güney Eker
Screenplay: Volkan Güney Eker
Cinematography: Volkan Güney Eker
Editing: Volkan Güney Eker
Music: Neşet Ertaş
A lot of words have been said on women-men equality for many centuries. However there is a situation people don’t realize even though they know it very well.
No Fries, Please
Turkey, 2016, 13 minutes, Color, Turkish
Director: Melisa Üneri
Screenplay: Melisa Üneri
Cinematography: Birkan Yorulmaz
Editing: Özcan Vardar
Music: Feryin Kaya & Burak Irmak
Production: Melisa Üneri, Öykü Aytulun
Cast: Inan Hira, Cem Avnayim
“No Fries, Please” is a black comedy which follows a man’s futile attempts of trying to control his life in an urban society. The film is a tragicomic story about modern-day social phobia, loneliness and revenge.
Black Ring
Turkey, 2016, 15 minutes, Color, Turkish
Director: Hasan Can Dağlı
Screenplay: Hasan Can Dağlı, Cem Özüduru, Turgay Doğan
Cinematography: Olcay Oğuz
Editing: Hasan Can Dağlı, Cem Özüduru
Music: David Kiledjian
Production: Blah Films, #FILM, SO Production
Cast: Turgay Doğan, H. Yüce Eşer, Serdar Aras, Dounia Jauneaud, Sait Erol, Tolga Akman
Black Ring is about a group people organizing an event in an abandoned mansion. In this dystopic world, the brutal sequence of events underlines how artificial society can be.
Rabbit Blood
Turkey, 2016, 5 minutes, Color
2016 Catalina FF; Award of Excellence Istanbul Short FF; Best Animated Film Marmaris Short FF; Best Animated Film
Director: Yağmur Altan
Screenplay: Yağmur Altan
Editing: Yağmur Altan
Music: Mehmet Aydin
Production: Yağmur Altan
Just an ordinary day at an old mysterious Turkish country house where its residents have an extraordinary way of brewing tea.
You are on Earth. There is No Cure for That
Turkey, 2016, 25 minutes, Color, Turkish
Director: Umut Beşkırma
Screenplay: Umut Beşkırma
Cinematography: Cevahir Şahin
Editing: Umut Beşkırma
Production: Kinema Film
Cast: Ahmet Kaynak, İpek Türktan, Cemil Büyükdöğerli
Levent killed the men who raped his girlfriend and stayed in prison for 15 years. He got out of jail and he had nowhere else to go rather than his sister’s Selma. Their father who is an Alzheimer patient is missing for 2 months. Police founds a dead body and calls Selma for identification. Levent and Selma struggle with the darkness of the past and fear of the future. At last they will realize that they are on earth and there is no cure for that.