Shorts from Türkiye
About Film and Director
Maşallah
Pick an outfit. You need to get dressed and just go out. How difficult could it be? Check how much cleavage you reveal. Could they see your bra? Wear a nude coloured one so that it won’t attract attention. Don’t give people the wrong idea. If your cleavage shows, cover it with a scarf. Just to be sure, use a safety pin so the scarf doesn’t move. You don’t need the safety pin, just pin an evil eye bead. Now, that’s safe.
Ezgi Ay
A graduate of the Boğaziçi University philosophy department, as a student she was part of the university's long-running Drama Club where she took various roles. Upon graduation, she acted in short and feature films and commercials. She won the Best Actress award at Short To the Point and Diyarbakır Short Film Festival with her performance in School Bus as teacher Nebahat. Her first short film The Midwife (2018) was inspired by her mother’s real-life experiences as a midwife in rural Anatolia. Her second short film Maşallah! was completed in 2023.
About Film and Director
In His Fortress
A young woman arrives at her newly deceased father’s house to clear out the place and starts feeling the descents and ascents of the mourning process.
Yasemin Demirci
Born in 1992 in İstanbul, she attended Kadir Has University’s Theatre Department but left school to work in the film industry. She studied film at Prague Film School, specializing in directing and screenwriting. After graduating in 2015 she attended Kingston University of London Film Studies department and graduated with high honors in 2019. The short films she has been making since 2015 were screened in more than 60 national and international festivals such as CameraImage, Tirana International Film Festival, Antalya Golden Orange, IKSV International Istanbul Film Festival, and Venice Film Week. She is working on her first feature.
About Film and Director
Lipstick
Ten years old Sabahattin helps his family by selling water and tea on the streets. He transcends the boundaries of the violent world he was born in by dreaming about the comic book characters he loves so much. When he realizes people don’t notice him, he believes he has become "invisible." His only wish is to be seen again, he believes this to be the only way to change his fate. To make people see him again, he embarks on a journey inspired by a comic book he reads.
Burcu Görgün
Born in 1986, she studied Sociology at Marmara University. From 2009 to 2015, she worked as a co-writer in the tv series Yaprak Dökümü, Aşk-ı Memnu, Fatmagül’ün Suçu Ne?, Kuzey Güney, Kurt Seyit ve Şura, and Medcezir. She was one of the scriptwriters for the 2017 International Emmy Award Winner tv series Kara Sevda and also the tv series Kuzgun and Alev Alev. She also worked on the adapted script for the feature film Bir Aşk İki Hayat. Ruj is the second short film written and directed by her.
About Film and Director
On the Road
Aysun is a director in her late twenties. While casting the film she is preparing to shoot, a cargo arrives from her sister Arzu, who lives abroad. Arzu sent a letter and a cassette containing camera recordings taken by Aysun when she was twelve. The footage features her family's car ride. This event that Aysun experienced in her childhood is also the subject of the movie she is about to shoot.
Özge Uçar
Born on September 29, 1992, in Eskisehir, she received her master's degree with her short film Graveyard Watchman, which she shot as her graduation thesis for the Department of Cinema and Television at Beykent University. Immediately afterward, she entered the Cinema and Television Doctorate Program at Beykent University. Since 2010, she has participated in various projects as a screenwriter, copywriter, and director. She currently teaches scenario writing in institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Education.
About Film and Director
Between Delicate and Violent
Between Delicate and Violent is an experimental documentary that considers hands as memory places that can accumulate and transfer memories. Through hands and their creations, the film imagines unearthing lost memories not included in performative, socially acceptable family albums. Can we see the violence of the painter's hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Is cross-stitch an alphabet? The video connects with the director's past through imagination and creation, while opening up to larger human stories such as domestic violence and intergenerational trauma and resistance.
Şirin Bahar Demirel
As a filmmaker and visual artist who works with moving images, collages, and photography, she experiments with the dialogue between archival and found images and her creations. After studying cinema at Galatasaray University in İstanbul and Artistic Direction of Cultural Projects at Paul Valéry University in France, she participated in film festivals and group exhibitions that include IDFA, Kassel Dokfest, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Sharjah Film Platform, and Istanbul Museum of Modern Art screenings.
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