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Orada
Hakki Kurtulus et Melik Saraçoglu
After his mother's suicide, Mazhar, who had been in exile in France for 12 years, comes back to Istanbul. The reunion with his sister Neslihan is painful. After the funeral, they decide to find their father and tell him about the death of their mother. Since their separation, their father Erol has lived confined on an island. Their unspoken secrets are revealed during their discussions.
With : Dolunay Soys, Sinan Tuzcu, Erol Gunaydin, Fusun Erbulak, Bahtiyar Engin
Screenplay : Hakki Kurtulus, Melik Saraçoglu
Editing : Çiçek Kahraman
Image : Eyüp Boz
Sound : Ismail Karadas
Music : Alper Maral
Screenplay : Hakki Kurtulus, Melik Saraçoglu
Editing : Çiçek Kahraman
Image : Eyüp Boz
Sound : Ismail Karadas
Music : Alper Maral
Production : Iki Film // PK.139 TR-34431 Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turquie // Tel : +90 539 734 44 43 / +90 537 243 95 30 // Email : hakki.kurtulus@ikifilm.com melik.saracoglu@ikifilm.com // www.ikifilm.com
Hakki Kurtulus was born in 1980 in Istanbul, where he studied communication and cinema at the Francophone University of Galatasaray. In 2002, he went to study cinema at the Université de Lyon 2. During his studies, he made two documentaries and studied the work of Ingmar Bergman, Claude Sautet, Jacques Tati, Bruno Dumont, and Völker Schlondorff. Kurtulus was a foreign scientific student at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Lyon in 2003-2004, before earning a DEA at the École Pratique des Hautes Études of the Sorbonne. Melik Saraçoglu was born in 1984 in Istanbul. After studying at the French Lycée in Galatasaray, he went to Lyon to study cinema and modern literature at the Université Lumière Lyon 2. At the age of 17, he made his first medium-length film, Jajambo. He made two shorts which were selected for short film festivals in Istanbul. He is also a critic for Turkish cinema reviews. Orada is their first feature. "Above all, Orada is a tribute film to Ingmar Bergman, who in our opinion is the greatest artist of the 20th century, with his outstanding body of work which portrays human truth. Orada is inspired by Bergman's great films, which were filmed on Fårö (...). Half of Orada takes place in Büyükada, the largest of the Prince's Islands, near Istanbul (...). Büyükada gave us the possibility of filming one of the world's leading cities, Istanbul, in a new way".