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The first film by Tayfun Pirselimoğlu. In that autobiographical movie based on Pirselimoglu’s childhood memories about his uncle, an overvoice narrates his uncle’s struggles to achieve flying alone.

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Language:Turkish
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don’t allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.

+interview with the director

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Language(s):Turkish
Subtitles:English

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In Turkey, more than a thousand people go missing “normally” every year and only half can be found. Some of these people go missing while in police custody.

Dedicated to his mother and to all mothers, writer-director Tayfun Pirselimoðlu’s fictional Hiçbiryerde follows a mother’s search for her missing son. When she is asked whether her son was involved in politics, Sükran answers, “Certainly not.” After losing her husband, a political prisoner, Sükran had determined to keep hold of her son, Veysel; but the boy, after all, was also his father’s son.

Indeed, Veysel and factory co-worker and close friend Halil are both missing, but Halil’s father has no interest in placing himself at risk to press authorities about his son’s absence. The truth is, Veysel is likely already dead. The film opens with Sükran’s fainting at the sight of the corpse, with its face smashed in, that authorities had asked if she could identify. Sükran insists this is not her son, but perhaps only in a state of denial aimed at keeping hope alive. Veysel’s girlfriend has identified the body as her boyfriend’s on the basis of familiarity with his body. The dead boy even had the same birthmark on his groin. “My son had no such birthmark!” Sükran explodes, but she may be contesting his having passed from her own primary influence to this girl’s. Indeed, she charges the girlfriend with having “filled Veysel’s head” with all the “nonsense” that may have gotten him into trouble.

When she hears that a prisoner with her son’s exact name, Veysel Aksu, escaped from a police transport and has been seen in Mardin, she leaves Istanbul by train for Mardin, takes a hotel room, and does her best to track down her son. Eventually, a clandestine meeting is arranged between her and Veysel, but this Veysel Aksu, expecting to be reunited with his mother, turns out to be some other mother’s son. This contributes to Pirselimoðlu’s theme that responsibility for all children falls on all of us. When later asked whether the corpse of this other Veysel Aksu is her son, this time Sükran says yes. She has become the dead boy’s Mother of Loss, and her identification of his remains mirror-images and symbolically reverses her earlier refusal to identify the earlier set of remains as her son’s. (~ wordpress.com / Dennis Grunes, 2009)

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Language:Turkish
Subtitles:English

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“Ben O Değilim” tells the story of a simple man who works at a kitchen in Istanbul. Pirselimoğlu narrates his transformation into another man and gaining a different identity in a slow-paced and minimal style. Just like in his earlier films such as the “Conscience and Death Trilogy” Pirselimoğlu uses static shots and little dialogue where he searchs the reflections of “master-slave dialectics” and creates a dreamlike atmosphere. At the leading role there is the famous actor Ercan Kesal who is known for his collaborations with Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

“Ben O Değilim” won the Golden Tulip Award in Istanbul Film Festival and Best Screenplay Award in Rome Film Fest.

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Language:Turkish
Subtitles:English

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Fate brings together two unhappy people in this drama from Turkish filmmaker Tayfun Pirselimoğlu. Hamdi makes and sells wigs from a small shop in Istanbul. Hamdi isn’t much of a businessman, and doesn’t care much about his shop — or anything else for that matter since he was diagnosed with cancer. One day, a middle-aged woman named Meryem comes into Hamdi’s shop; she has long and beautiful hair, and informs him that she wants to sell it. Hamdi is struck by the woman’s barely concealed anger and sadness, and he wants to know more about her.

Selected Festivals and Awards
• Warsaw Film Festival, Poland (2012)
• Festroia-Troia International Film Festival, Portugal (2011): FIPRESCI Prize for Best Picture
• Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey (2011): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Nazan Kesal)
• Almaty Film Festival, Kazakhstan (2011): Netpac Prize
• Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (2011)
• London Turkish Film Festival, U.K. (2011)
• Festival on Wheels, Turkey (2010): Special Mention
• Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2010)
• Golden Orange Film Festival, Antalya, Turkey (2010: Best Supporting Actor (Riza Akin), Best Photography (Ercan Ozkan)
• Turkish Film Critics’ (SIYAD) Awards (2010): Best Actress (Nazan Kesal), Best Actor (Ayberk Pekcan)
• Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia (2010)

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Language(s):Turkish
Subtitles:English

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