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As Shadows Fade
As shadows fade

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

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

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life in the shadows

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

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abo zabaal

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

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les enfants terribles

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…

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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

WEBSITE

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