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© 2020 Yumurta Yapım Sanat ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.
©2020 Yumurta Yapım Sanat ve Tic. Ltd. Şti
Siyah Güneş
Black Sun
premiere: 2019 Locarno Film Festival - Pardi di Domani / Pardino d'Oro, Best International Short Film
Tamalanmış
A coming storm after dog days dawns during a sudden road trip to a distant island for a funeral. The dead is buried in haste and a man makes a detour through Aegean Turkey. The funeral is eclipsed by a last wish. The wind blows ashes where it pleases.
2019 | 1.77:1 | 16mm | 25fps | Color | 5.1 | Turkish, English Subtitles | 20'
Cast
Enes Yurdaün, Seren Şirince, Ariya Toprak, Sencar Sağdıç ve Nur Sürer, Ercan Kesal
Director & Editor: Arda Çiltepe
Scriptwriters: Arda Çiltepe & Julia Tielke
Producers: Alara Hamamcıoğlu (Vigo Film), Öykü Canlı (Yumurta Yapım)
Co-Producer: HFBK Hamburg
Director of Photography: Julia Tielke
Colorist: Nils Petersen
Sound Designer & Mix: Postbıyık
Sound Recordist: Enis Danabaş
Art Director: İdris Kaan Akbay
Assistant Director: Ozan Yoleri
Gaffer: Yusuf Elbaşı
Focus Puller: Elisa Juri
Second Assistant Director: Aslı Özoğuz
Production Coordinators: Sergen Dilmen, Dilara Çatak
Boom Operator: Berkay Sarıtaş
Creative Consultant: Gürcan Keltek
Screenings
2019: Locarno Film Festival / Pardino d’oro for The Best International Short Film, Sarajevo Film Festival - International Competition, Reykjavik Film Festival - International Competition, Seville European Film Festival / EFA Shorts, Uppsala International Short Film Festival/ EFA Shorts, Interfilm Short Film festival / EFA Shorts, Ayvalık Film Festival, Bosphorus Film Festival - National Competition, Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival - National Competition, Passaggi d’autore / Competition, Glasgow Short Film Festival / EFA Shorts, Festival del Cinema Europeo / EFA Shorts, Norwegian Short Film Festival / EFA Shorts, Auteur Film Festival - Competition
2020: İstanbul Film Festivali / Best Short Film, Minimalen Short Film Festival / EFA Shorts, Vilnius International Film Festival / International Short Competition, Tampere Film Festival / EFA Shorts, Portland Film Festival, New Directors / New Films at Lincoln Center, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival / Winners of Other Festivals, VIS Vienna Shorts Festival / EFA Shorts, OFF – Odense International Film Festival (Denmark) / EFA Shorts, Curtas Vila do Conde (Portugal) / EFA Shorts, Dokufest / EFA Shorts, Braunschweig International Film Festival / EFA Shorts, Film Front International Short Film Festival / Short Film Competition, Sharjah Film Festival, İzmir Short Film Festival / National Competition, L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona / National Short Film Competition
About the Director
Before graduating from Economics at Boğaziçi University, he worked as a translator for several major publishing houses in Turkey. He co-produced Meteors (dir. Gürcan Keltek, 2017, Locarno Festival’s Filmmakers of the Present) and Gulyabani (dir. Gürcan Keltek, 2018, Locarno Festival’s Signs of Life). He produced The Pillar of Salt (dir. Burak Çevik, 2018, Berlinale Forum). Besides studying master’s degree in film at Hamburg Fine Arts University, he is the producer of Gürcan Keltek’s next feature project-in-development New Dawn Fades and the co-producer of Semih Gülen and Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun’s debut project-in-development Athlete.
Maddenin Halleri
Phases of Matter
premiere: 2020 Rotterdam Film Festival - Bright Future Main Programme
Taking place at Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Phases of Matter focuses on the doctor who calls the hospital their home, the daily lives of the nurse and personnel, the endless hallways of the hospital, and the faded-colored buildings, the electrical power supply that runs on gossip, and the humour that diligently tries to lighten up death. The film aims to understand life at the hospital by wandering around the doctor’s office, the operation room, the countless other corners where the healthy wouldn’t care to go. ıt observes the talent of the personnel to deal with anything that takes place under this roof, the resistance and the fragility of the body, and the broken country right outside.
2020 | Color | 5.1 | Turkish, English Subtitles | 71'
Director: Deniz Tortum
Producers: Anna Maria Aslanoğlu (istos film), Öykü Canlı (Yumurta Yapım), Aslı Erdem (Beatrice Films)
Co-Producer: Fırat Sezgin (Institute of Time)
Editor: Sercan Sezgin
Director of Photograph: Deniz Tortum
Music: Alican Çamcı
Sound Design: Ernst Karel, Yalın Özgencil
Colorist: James Norman
Screening
2020: Rotterdam Film Festival - Bright Future Main Programme, Golden Orange Film Festival / Best Documentary Film Award, İstanbul Film Festival / Best Documentary Award, Accessible Film Festival / Best Film Award & Best Director Award, Imagine Science Film Festival / Labocine Special Mention
Selection
2020: Museum of Moving Image, NYC / First Look 2020, İstanbul Modern Cinema / Count Us In!
About the Director
Deniz Tortum was born in Istanbul in 1989. His films have screened at many film festivals including Venice Film Festival, Rotterdam, SxSW, Sheffield, True/False and Dokufest. He worked at the MIT Open Documentary Lab focusing on VR research. He curated and produced the new media sections of !f Istanbul and Camden Film Festival. Among his work are the first Turkish film screened at SxSW, ZAYIAT (2013); VR project created with Çağrı Hakan Zaman and Nil Tuzcu, that told the story of Istanbul Pogrom, a government-initiated organized attack on the minorities of Istanbul on September 6-7, 1955, called September 1955 (2016); the documentary If Only There Were Peace (2017), co-directed with Carmine Grimaldi; FLOODPLAIN (2018) which was inspired by the world portrayed in Emre Yeksan’s Yuva; the roadtrip/music documentary Anatolian Trip (2018) co-directed with Can Eskinazi; and PHASES OF MATTER (2020) which made its world premiere in January at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Akıntı
The Diamond Sea
premiere: 2021 İstanbul Film Festival - Short Film Competition
Postprodüksiyon
Earning her living by selling pinwheels, pumpkin seeds and occasionally reciting blessing prayers for couples posing by the sea, a free-spirited peddler roams around the forsaken shores of the Bosphorus. She crosses paths with heartbroken teenagers, confronts an obnoxious admirer, exorcists, and exhibitionists. She mingles with fellow street sellers, fisherwomen, treasure-hunters and garbage collectors, all enclosed in a dreamy microcosm of their own. Like frogs gathered around a pond, they only have each other - and the timeworn, yet still glitter-ing, Diamond Sea.
2020 | 3.00:1 | 2K DCP | 25fps | Color | 5.1 | Turkish, English Subtitles | 18'
Cast
İpek Türktan Kaynak, Ali Seçkiner Alıcı, Mustafa Uzunyılmaz, Hüseyin Sevimli, Şirin Taşpınar, Ulaş Akarsu,
Günsu Sarı, Yenak Özkarslıoğlu, Türev Cin, Ömer Şerif Arısan, Ardan Özmenoğlu, Simge Güneş, Asra Çıra,
Manolya Akdemir, Zeynep Tümertekin, Berktan Alphan, Hülya Ekşigil, Sezer Türksoy, Azade Simavi, Ulaş Yılmaz, Süleyman Simavi
Director & Scriptwriter: Arda Ekşigil
Producers: Sinan Kesova (Vigo Film), Öykü Canlı (Yumurta Yapım), Alara Hamamcıoğlu (Vigo Film)
Co-Producer: Harun Simavi
Director of Photography: Meryem Yavuz
Art Director: Natali Yeres
Editor: Can Eskinazi
Sound Designer: Cenker Kökten
Sound Recordist: Ahmet Burak Gürbüz, Sertaç Selvi
Colorist: *
Assistant Director: Ozan Yoleri
Focus Puller: Neslihan Siligür
Assistant Directors: Manolya Akdemir, Aslı Özoğuz
Make-up Artist: Murat Polat
Set Decoration: Eda Çekemci
Grip: Serdar Karaibiş
DIT: Yusuf Arık, Özgün Ersoy
Second Camera Assistant: Ümit Aksu
Third Camera Assistant: Eren Akgül
Boom Operator: Sinan İnce
Production Assistant: Batuhan Çakma
Catering: Hülya Ekşigil
Transportation: Haluk Ataç, Hüseyin Karaman, Volkan Altunbaş
Generator Driver: Naci Acar
Screening
2021: 40th Istanbul Film Festival / Short Film Competition, 9th Bosphorus Film Festival / National Short Film Competition Best Fiction Short Film, 22nd Izmir Short Film Festival / National Competition
About the Director
Arda Ekşigil is a Turkish-Canadian director born in Istanbul in 1989. After finishing the Lycée Français Pierre Loti in Istanbul in 2007, he studied Ancient Philosophy, Literature and Archeology at the University of Montreal. He obtained a master’s degree from McGill University specializing in early modern Ottoman History. He is currently based in Istanbul and works mainly as a director, screenwriter and translator (translated books: My Brother Che, Can Yayınları, 2017, from French to Turkish).
Zuhal
Zuhal
premiere: 2021 Golden Orange Film Festival - National Feature Film Competition
Zuhal’s (38) routine is disturbed by a cat’s meow she keeps hearing in her flat. Despite none of the neighbors hearing it, she starts an investigation in the building in order to find the cat.
2020 | Color | Turkish, English Subtitles | 90'
Cast
Nihal Yalçın, Sadi Celil Cengiz, Serpil Gül, Sencar Sağdıç, Ilgaz Kocatürk, Gizem Taştan, Çağdaş Ekin Şişman
Director: Nazlı Elif Durlu
Scriptwriters: Nazlı Elif Durlu, Ziya Demirel
Producer: Anna Maria Aslanoğlu (istos film)
Co-Producers: Jamila Wenske (Achtung Panda, DE), Tanay Abbasoğlu (TN Yapım), Tolga Karaçelik (Karaçelik Film), Öykü Canlı (Yumurta Yapım Sanat)
Director of Photography: Sebastian Weber
Editors: Buğra Dedeoğlu, Henrique Cartaxo
Art Director: Osman Özcan
Screening
2021: 2021 Golden Orange Film Festival / National Feature Film Competition, The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival / First Feature Competition
Workshops and Co-Production Markets
Meetings on the Bridge (Istanbul Film Festival), When East Meets West (Trieste Film Festival), International Project Development Forum (Los Angeles Greek Film Festival), First Films First, Global Media Makers
Awards
Musou Award (Crossroads, Thessaloniki Film Festival), Flow Post-Production Award (Trieste Film Festival), Turkish-German Coproduction Development Grant, Meetings on the Bridge – Color Up Post-Production Award (Istanbul Film Festival)
About the Director
Born in Ankara, Turkey. She studied Film and TV in the Netherlands and got her masters degree from the University of Utrecht. After working in the Netherlands and then in Los Angeles as a screenwriter, she returned to Turkey in 2009. She has written and directed three short films [Trust Me (2009), Later (2012), The Horse and the Nightingale (2013)] that were screened and awarded by various national and international film festivals. In 2010 she worked as one of the screenwriters of the omnibus called Do Not Forget Me Istanbul, in which Hany Abu Assad shot the story she wrote. Since then she has been working as a screenwriter for TV series and feature films. She also teaches film reading and short film production at the Istanbul Bilgi University. Zuhal is her debut feature film.
Ela ile Hilmi ve Ali
Ela and Hilmi and Ali
in post-production
Ela and Hilmi and Ali tells the story of 7 different days of a constantly-form-changing-relationship of a newly-wed couple: a maths teacher HILMI (45), an earthquake survivor ELA (19) and a secret rapper, son of the building custodian, ALI (15).
2020 | Color | Turkish, English Subtitles | 110'
Cast
Serkan Keskin, Ece Yüksel, Denizhan Akbaba
Director: Ziya Demirel
Scriptwriters: Ziya Demirel, Nazlı Elif Durlu
Producer: Anna Maria Aslanoğlu (istos film)
Co-Producers: Tanay Abbasoğlu (TN Yapım), Öykü Canlı (Yumurta Yapım Sanat)
Director of Photography: Doron Tempert
Editors: Selda Taşkın, Henrique Cartaxo
Art Director: Gülay Doğan
Award
Turkish-German Co-production Development Grant
About the Director
Born in 1988, Turkey. He started theatre at high school and he directed his first short film while studying engineering. He continued his studies for film directing & scriptwriting at the Prague Film School. There he shot his well-received short film Evicko. The last short film he directed, SALI [Tuesday], premiered in the Official Selection of Cannes FF in 2015, and then was screened and selected in festivals such Toronto, Sarajevo, Les Arcs, Sundance, Rotterdam and was awarded as Best Short Film at Les Arcs, Istanbul, Malatya and with Special Jury Mention in Sarajevo. Ela and Hilmi and Ali is his debut feature.
Müşterek Dostumuz
Our Mutual Friend
in post-production
Tasarım
Our Mutual Friend is heartbreak. Everybody who has lived and will live knows it. Like a true friend, it is cruel to be kind and it defines us. As the song goes: “If you hadn’t lost, you wouldn’t have grown mature.”
About the Director
Ekin Can Göksoy was born in 1987 in Bursa, Turkey. He graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU in Ankara, Turkey) Electrical and Electronics Engineering department in 2011 and took his MA in Cultural Studies from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2014. During his career shift from engineering to social sciences, he never laid aside his first passion: cinema. Between 2005-2011, he actively participated in METU Cinema Society, took part in organizing many events and festivals including Turkey’s first ever international video-art festival METU Video Festival (2006) and METU Short Film Festival (2008). Since 2015, he writes film critiques and pieces on cinema history in FilmLoverss website. In addition to his academic works and translations, he published a short story book Münhal (2014) and a novel Epope Tatavla (2016) from İletişim Press. In December 2018, he opened his first exhibition “A Chance for a Miracle” (together with Larissa Araz) in poşe art space in Istanbul. Since 2017, he is involved in performance art and storytelling in San Francisco, USA and Istanbul under the partnership of Artship Foundation, San Francisco, USA and halka art project, Istanbul. Göksoy is a Ph. D. candidate in urban history at Boğaziçi University Department of History in Istanbul. “Our Mutual Friend” will be his first short feature.
Hidrofobi
Hydrophobia
short film in development
A family heirloom dropped into water brings Eren to the edge of a late confrontation.
About the Directors
Özgün Tutar (İzmir) graduated from the Dokuz Eylül University City and Regional Planning and had a master’s degree on neoliberal urbanization. Özgün working in Istanbul-based production company with the aim to establish a closer relationship with the visual and media arts. Parallel to academic studies and profession, Özgün is also pursuing a path in literature, writing short stories and sci-fi/ drama scripts with a close interest in the sci-fi subculture: weird fiction.
Medusa Aslı (İzmir) graduated from Film Design Department and had a master degree in Art and Design. Medusa, who focused on queer cinema, wrote their thesis on queer theory and cinema. Medusa, who is also a diving instructor, combines two great passions, cinema and diving and focuses on underwater screening. Medusa is working in the film industry as an underwater camera operator.
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