Click here to see The 3rd Boston Turkish Film Festival (April 22 - May 2, 2004)
2nd BOSTON TURKISH FILM FESTIVALSM April 16 - 26, 2003 |
All films in 35 mm and with English subtitles
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DIRECTORS BUKET ALAKUS AND ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ
Free admission |
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All films will be screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
SUMMER LOVE (O da Beni Seviyor)
In this coming-of-age story set in 1973, thirteen-year-old Esma is packed off to the country for the summer. Although the trip is meant as a punishment for doing poorly in school, Esma is overjoyed to find a soulmate in Saliha - the black sheep of the family who rebelled against an arranged marriage - and a potential boyfriend in a handsome 18-year-old local. But as the first stirrings of teenage love give way to the painful moment when one learns to distinguish between youthful dreams and bittersweet reality, some hard life lessons await Esma. The beautifully shot film, full of sumptuous landscapes and local Alevi culture, delivers a complex appraisal of village life and explores themes related to the massive urban migration of the 1970s.
MY MOTHER (Anam)
A film inspired by director Buket Alakus's own mother, My Mother is about a woman Alakus describes as having "the passion of Sophia Loren, the pride of Anna Magnani, the self-sacrificing love of Mother Theresa and the stubbornness of a country mule." The film tells the story of a Turkish cleaning woman in Germany who breaks with her traditional way of life in order to save her son from drugs - and discovers her own strengths and the joys of living along the way. Described as a "brilliant feature debut".
FATE (Yazgı)
CONFESSION (İtiraf)
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An investigation into a killing through a series of cross-cut interviews with suspects, this intense film opens with the rape and murder of a beautiful vagrant living in a small and conservative neighborhood in Istanbul. As part of the investigation, the police interrogate six people, who reveal the secret history of the quiet neighborhood. Selected as Turkey's official entry to the 2003 Oscars, this story about everyday fascism in the lives of ordinary people was the first Turkish film shot and edited entirely in digital video and transferred to 35 mm. format.
Born in
Isparta in 1964. He has graduated from the Department of Communications at
Istanbul University. He began his film career as an assistant to director Zeki
Ökten in 1986 and worked as assistant director until making "Block
C", his first feature film, in 1994. His following films, “Innocence”
(1997) and “The Third Page” (1999) won many awards. He directed FATE and
CONFESSION, the first two films of his “Tales About Darkness” trilogy, in
2001.
Last year, both Fate and Confession were shown at the sidebar competition at the Cannes Film Festival, marking the first time ever two features by the same director were screened in one year.
Filmography:
1994
C Blok / Block C
1997
Masumiyet / Innocence
1999
Üçüncü Sayfa / The Third Page
2001
Yazgı / Fate
İtiraf / Confession
BUKET ALAKUS
Buket Alakus was born in 1971 in Istanbul. After finishing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin in 1995, she studied Film Directing at Hamburg University's Institute of Theater, Music and Film from 1996-98. Her films include: the shorts Schluessel (1996), Tango (1997) and Kismet (1998). Her film Schluessel received the First Prize for Best Main Actress at the Festival Mondial du Cinéma de Courts Métrages in Belgium and First Prize for Best Screenplay at the Festival Donne in Corto Transeurope in Italy. She had her feature debut in 2001 with Anam.
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