The Long & Short Of It II
Hunger
Turkey, 2019, 2 minutes, Color, No dialogue
Director: Gürkan Gürler
Screenplay: Gürkan Gürler
Cinematography: Gürkan Gürler
Animation: Gürkan Gürler
Editing: Gürkan Gürler
Music: Gürkan Gürler
Hunger is an animated film which aims to narrate a surrealistic story about mental illnesses and drug effects that installed in an abstract world and imagery. Confused and lost, our character is experiencing the effects of the fruits he ate to suppress his hunger.
Octopus
Turkey, 2019, 13 minutes, Color, Turkish; Turkish closed captions
Director: Engin Erden
Screenplay: Engin Erden
Cinematography: Firar Güney Kayran
Editing: Sezer Uçar
Music: Ömer Özgür
Production: Filmpark, EE Films
Cast: Yusuf Bayraktar, Lidya Akkuş
On a hot, lazy summer day in Aegean seaside, 8 and 9 year-old best friends Ece and Efe encounter different adults until they get tired of being pushed around. So they make a plan to prove themselves. But they are not aware of the price that they will have to pay for it.
A Hard Day In The Empire
Turkey, 2018, 21 minutes, Color, Turkish; Turkish closed captions
Director: Sezen Kayhan
Screenplay: Sezen Kayhan
Cinematography: Deniz Eyüboğlu
Editing: Doruk Kaya
Music: Ekin Fil
Production: EHEMM Production
Cast: Ayris Alptekin, Murat Kılıç, Sezgi Mengi, Reyhan Özdilek, Cem Baza
Cansu works as an art department assistant on the set of an Ottoman period soap opera. On a difficult day, she cannot fulfill the extreme requests of the director. Challenging conditions, various caprices and endless requests bring her to an irreversible moment.
Butterfly Man
Turkey, 2019, 6 minutes, Color, Turkish; Turkish closed captions
2020 Unknown FF; Bronze Award Festival de Cine Espiritual Contracorriante; Best Documentary
Director: Enis Manaz
Screenplay: Enis Manaz
Cinematography: Mert Hüroğlu
Editing: Enis Manaz
Music: Ryan Taubert
Cast: Abdurrahim Korkmaz
Abdurrahim Korkmaz was born in Mardin in 1984. His village met with road, water and electricity very late. The butterflies that he saw on the TV of his neighbor have changed his life.
Eavesdropper
Turkey, 2020, 20 minutes, Color, Turkish, Kurdish; Turkish closed captions
Director: Ahmet Toğaç
Screenplay: Ahmet Toğaç
Cinematography: Nusret Emre Bilgin
Editing: Ahmet Toğaç
Cast: Turgay Aydın, Deniz İnanç, Hülya Gülşen Aydın, Enes Yılmaz Aksu, İsmail Akbaba, İzel Demirhan, Haluk Yüce
Selamet, who is working at the old central of a company which is on the eve of moving to a big centre, waits for the time when his transfer will take place and he spends his days listening to the phone calls of people he doesn't even know. He tries to make his life similar to a stranger on the phone by discovering his closeness to that person.