The Long & Short Of It
The Bird Has No Wings
Turkey, 2013, 5 minutes, Color, No Dialogue
Director: Mert Tügen
Screenplay: Mert Tugen
Animation: Mert Tugen
Music: Ömer Gazi Yılmaz
Production: Canlandıranlar Yetenek Kampı
A place where earth and water divided by glass, there are four birds. The smallest one doesn't have wings to fly and the others make fun of him. One day, light rays on glass cause a fire.
Interval
Turkey, 2012, 10 minutes, Digital, Color, Turkish
2012 Malatya FF; Best Short Film, Sinepark FF; Best Short Film
Director: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
Screenplay: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
Cinematography: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
Editing: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
Music: Murat Gülbay
Cast: Tan Arcan, Nuray Işıklı
Interval tells the story of a nameless man who tries to escape from his past in a world in ruins after an earthquake. As he tries to escape from his past, he hopelessly searches for someone he has lost long time ago.
Slice of Life
Turkey, 2012, 14 minutes, Digital, Color, Turkish
Director: Aysel Pınar Necef
Screenplay: Aysel Pınar Necef, Aksel Bonfil, Erkan Ersezer
Cinematography: Gözde Koyuncu
Editing: Behzat Uygur, Aysel Pınar Necef, Gözde Koyuncu
Music: Sabi Saltiel, Emir Merzeci
Production: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
Cast: Ayten Uncuoğlu, Behzat Uygur, Berrin Alganer Lenz, Zehra Gökçimen, Tuncer Öz
This is the absurd story of two large and noisy families gathering in a house a day before a wedding around a refrigerator.
Together
Turkey, 2012, 16 minutes, Digital, Color, Turkish
2012 İstanbul Short FF; Best Short Fiction İzmir Short FF; Special Jury Prize
Director: Barış Çorak
Screenplay: Barış Çorak
Cinematography: Clint Lealos
Editing: Barış Çorak
Music: The Evpatoria Report
Cast: D.Özder Akın, Roza Erdem
He was still breathing, desire was alive!
One night a woman and a man tried to change their lives.
Bodrum Dream
Turkey, 2012, 7 minutes, Digital, Color, Turkish
Director: Şafak Türkel
Screenplay: Şafak Türkel
Cinematography: Şafak Türkel
Editing: Şafak Türkel, Çoşku Türkel
Music: Emre Kesim
Production: Ares Prodüksiyon
Cast: Deniz Zirek, İlke Kodal
The night is dark, the sea is dark. I am laying down in the pitchblack sea. I left my body to the dark waters. I am looking at the millions of stars within the sea. While my heart is getting wet being without you and my eyes getting burned from the salt, I am searching for you.
Silent
Turkey, 2012, 15 minutes, Digital, Color, Turkish Kurdish
2012 Cannes FF; Golden Palm Melbourne FF; Best fiction Film Cinemed FF; Grand Prix
Director: L. Rezan Yeşilbaş
Screenplay: L. Rezan Yeşilbaş
Cinematography: Türksoy Gölebeyi
Editing: Buğra Dedeoğlu, Rezan Yeşilbaş
Cast: Belçim Bilgin, Cem Bender
The year is 1984. Zeynep, who lives in Diyarbakır with her three children, wants to visit her husband in prison. Zeynep is only able to speak her mother tongue ‘Kurdish’; however, only the Turkish language is allowed to be spoken in prison, so she’s unable to utter a word there. On the other hand, she wants to bring a new pair of shoes to her husband but it’s forbidden to bring anything to prisoners from outside…
Later
Turkey, 2012, 12 minutes, Digital, Color, Turkish
Director: Nazlı Elif Durlu
Screenplay: Nazlı Elif Durlu, Deniz Alnıtemiz
Cinematography: Emre Tanyıldız
Editing: Çiçek Kahraman, Buğra Dedeoğlu
Music: Korhan Futacı, Barlas Tan Özemek
Production: Dirty Cheap Creative
Cast: Onur Ünsal, Deniz Alnıtemiz, Esme Madra, Uluç Ali Kılıç, Murat Akay, İdil Ander, Korhan Futacı, Barlas Tan Özemek
A bunch of friends gather in a house playing video games and having fun. They don't answer the phone calls, they don't stand emotional musics and they get melancholic when someone among them leaves the room. It seems like there is more than meets the eye.