38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Cold of Kalandar

Kalandar Sogugu

Mustafa Kara

Image Cold of Kalandar
Turkey
2015 Fiction 2h18
Mehmet is a man who lives with his two children, wife, and mother in a mountain village on Black Sea. He earns his bread by breeding a few animals, while looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains with a great passion and hope. However, his endless pursuit is perceived as useless by his mother and wife. Destroyed in search of a mineral reserve, his hope is renewed with the news of a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight that will be held in Artvin, so he dedicates his time to training the bull in the stable till the day of competition.
With : Haydar Şişman, Nuray Yeşirelaraz, Hanife Kara, Ibrahim Kuvvet, Temel Kara
Screenplay : Mustafa Kara, Bilal Sert
Image : Cevahir Şahin, Kürşat Üresin
Sound : Daniel Bohm, Ferenc Lukacs
Editing : Umut Sakallioğlu, Ali Aga, Mustafa Kara
Music : Eleonore Fourniau
Production : Nermin Aytekin, Karafilm Productions
Mustafa Kara, was born in 1982, and graduated from the Department of Radio and Television at Cumhuriyet University. His debut feature was Hope Island, in 2006, which was a co-production between Turkey and the United Kingdom. He founded “Karafilm Productions” in 2009 with Nermin Aytekin. Cold of Kalandar is his second feature film.

"Cold of Kalandar pictures within a unique pastoral atmosphere the realist, passionate and emotional story of Mehmet and his family living far from modern life, in a mountain village."