10 to 11
11'e 10 kala
Pelin Esmer
10 to 11 is the story of a passionate collector Mithat and the concierge of the building, Ali. For Mithat Istanbul is as vast as his collections and for Ali is nothing more than a few blocks around the building. When the neighbors decide to have the building rebuilt with the fear of earthquake and the wish for a more valuable house, Mithat's most challenging struggle to save his collections begins. The building becomes the common destiny of these two men living alone.
With : Nejat Isler, Mithat Esmer, Tayanç Ayaydin, Laçin Ceylan, Savas Akova, Sinan Dügmeci, Tülin Özen
Screenplay : Pelin Esmer
Editing : Ayhan Ergürsel, Pelin Esmer, Cem Yildirim
Image : Özgür Eken
Sound : Kasper Munck-Hansen, Umut Senyol, Marc Elsner, Michael Kaczmarek
Screenplay : Pelin Esmer
Editing : Ayhan Ergürsel, Pelin Esmer, Cem Yildirim
Image : Özgür Eken
Sound : Kasper Munck-Hansen, Umut Senyol, Marc Elsner, Michael Kaczmarek
Production : Sinefilm, Tolga Esmer // Akinci Bayiri Sokak Engin Apt. No : 18/4 Mecidiyekoy, 34394 Istanbul, Turquie // Tel : +90 212 266 09 68 / Fax : +90 212 272 14 07 // Email : tolgaesmer@sinefilm.com
Co-production : Stromboli films // 4 rue Martel 75010 Paris // Tel: +33 (0)6 20 36 04 94 // Email : juliette.sol@strombolifilms.com Arte France Cinéma, Bredok Filmproduction
Co-production : Stromboli films // 4 rue Martel 75010 Paris // Tel: +33 (0)6 20 36 04 94 // Email : juliette.sol@strombolifilms.com Arte France Cinéma, Bredok Filmproduction
Pelin Esmer was born and lives in Istanbul. After she majored in sociology, she attended the cinema workshop of the Turkish director Yavuz Ozkan. She worked as a first assistant director in a number of Turkish and foreign projects, including documentaries, features and commercials. Her first documentary film, The Collector in 2002, was screened in many festivals. Then, she directed her first feature documentary Oyun in 2005. She was selected to Cannes Film Festival's Residence de la Cinéfondation in Paris, where she worked on the script of 10 to 11 in 2007. "I started "10 to 11" with the desire of understanding an extraordinary collector who freezes every moment of his life with an object that he adds to his collections. He threads together tightly the past, present and future with a rope on which he walks with the dexterity of a master stuntman. Leaning on Istanbul's tolerance for contradictions, I wrote the story of 83 year-old Mithat and his concierge Ali, two lonely men with very different backgrounds, very different lives, very different dreams, and very different realities"