AS SHADOWS FADE
Trapped by the Turkish traditional, heteronormative family ideal, Esin lives like a ghost, unaware of her passions. When she falls for the fiery, playful Deniz, a distant family friend who takes refuge in their house, she discovers the possibility of a genuine life. Their intimacy pushes her to transcend her boundaries, towards a dark place of secrets, deceit and heartache.
DIRECTOR
Burcu Aykar
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
in development
GENRE
Feature Film
CO PRODUCTION
Liman Film
FUNDERS
German Turkish Co-Development Fund
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Meetings on the Bridge IKSV Istanbul
SØR Fund Norway
MARKETS
Best Project Award 32nd Ankara Film Festival 2021
Mattepost Post Production Online Award @Meetings on the Bridge 2022
Transylvania Pitch Stop Award @Meetings on the Bridge 2022
Best Adapted Screenplay @Anatalya Film Festival 2022
EVER SINCE
I KNEW MYSELF
Maka, the daughter of a strict and structure-loving math teacher, travels around Georgian classrooms and observes the children in the education process to portray the story of her own childhood. The images mirroring the author’s experiences are juxtaposed with the perspective of her mother, Nino, as she reflects on her attempts to transform her daughter from a restless child into a model citizen. This cinematic dialogue between two women representing different, Soviet and post-Soviet generations from Georgia, is an attempt to bridge differences.
DIRECTOR
Maka Gogaladze
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
in development
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
COPRODUCTION
Formo Production, Georgia
MARKETS
Docs Lisboa 2022
Marché du Film, Cannes Docs 2023 winner of Alphapanda Award
LIFE IN THE SHADOWS
Years after his classmates were massacred at his school in Pakistan, director D.K. records the lives of Machid, who attends the same school, and Khatima, who works in the cemetery where the dead students are buried.
Jury statement Sunny Side of the Docs 2023:
“This project successfully highlights the significance of portraying the narratives of marginalized individuals who are often unheard in society.”
DIRECTOR
Anonymous
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
in development
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
CO PRODUCTION
Kamay Film, Ilyas Yourish - Afghanistan
MARKETS
Hot Docs Dealmaker 2023
Sunny Side of the Docs 2023, Winner New Voices
Special Award - Pitch the Doc Prize
DMZ Docs Pitch, Korea – Global Pitch
ABO ZABAAL PRISON 1989
In search of understanding and healing, filmmaker and activist Bassam Mortada explores his fathers arrest, imprisonment and torture in 1989, reconstructing and reconsidering the experience that traumatized his family.
DIRECTOR
Bassam Mortada
DOP
Mohamad el-Hadidi
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
in Postproduction 2023
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
MARKETS
Robert Bosch Film Prize, winner 2019
LES ENFANTS
TERRIBLES
Filmmaker Ahmet Nacdet Cupur returns to his small home village in the southeast of Turkey to follow his brother Mahmut while he frees himself out of his marriage - arranged when his wife was still a child - and his sister Zeynep studies long hours after her work in a factory to get a school degree and the chance to build up her own existence. Their parents and the people in the village do not receive these decisions with cheers…
DIRECTOR
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
DOP
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Lucie Baudinaud
EDITOR
Mathilde Van de Moortel
Elif Uluengin
Nicolas Sublarti
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2021
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
CO PRODUCTION
TS Production France
Liman Film Turkey
MARKETS
Vision du Réel 2019
Docs Barcelona 2019
Copro Market DokLeipzig 2019
Winner Poster Award Meetings on the Bridge 2020
Winner of Work in Progress Antalya Film Forum 2020
FESTIVALS
International Feature Film Competition @Visions du Réel 2021
Official Section Panorama @DocsBarcelona 2021
Competition Programme @Sarajevo Film Festival 2021
fARAD, Rumania 2021
National feature film competition @Adana Film Festival 2021
International Competition @Flahertiana FF, Perm Russia 2021
Official Selection @BFI London Film Festival 2021
Section Documentaire @Cinemed Montpellier 2021
West Lake IDF, China 2021
Guangneung, South Korea 2021
Documentary Section @Camerimage 2021
Family Topography section @RIDM Montréal 2021
German Premiere @Kasseler Dokfest 2021
Best of Fests @IDFA 2021
Selection @European Film Awards
official selection @Zurich HRFF 2021
Crime & Punishment Festival @Istanbul 2021
Section Competition Revolution @Cinemamed, Belgium 2021
Cinema Verité IDF, Iran 2021
Fipadoc Panorama Section, France 2022
Doc Point Helsinki, Finland 2022
int. Documentary Competition @SIFF, Bulgaria 2022
section Filmlandschaften @26. Filmfestival Türkei Deutschland, Nuremberg 2022
Türkische Filmtage, Munich 2022
Filmreihe Typisch Türkisch, Cologne 2022
Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy 2022
Zagreb DOX, Croatia 2022
Millenium IDF, Belgium 2022
Docs Against Gravity, Poland 2022
HADOC Festival, Portugal 2022
Neisse IFF, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic 2022
One World Romania, 2022
Türkisches Filmfestival Berlin 2022
Rome International Filmfestival 2022
Sinema Transtopia, Berin 2023
AWARDS
Special Jury Award @Visions du Rèel 2021
Human Rights Award Sarajevo 2021
Best Film, Best Editing, Special Jury Mention to Zeynep Cupur
@Adana Film Festival 2021
Second Silver Nanook and Audience Award @Flahertiana Film Festival, Perm, Russia 2021
Mention @Cinemed Montpellier 2021
Jury Special Award @Crime and Punishment Festival Istanbul 2021
Young Jury Award @Cinemamed Belgium 2021
Best Film international competition @Cinema Verité, Iran 2021
Best Documentary @Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards 2022
Grand Jury Prize @Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy 2022
Best Cinematography @Rome International Documentary Filmfestival 2022
Zalab Prize @Rome International Documentary Filmfestival 2022
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