COFFEE FUTURES (Neyse Halim Çiksin Falim)

(Turkey, Documentary; 2010. 22 minutes.)

Director : Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
Producer : Umut Gürsel, Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
Language : Turkish with English subtitles
Editor : Ebru Karaca
Screenwriter : Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
Cinematographer : Ebru Karaca
Music : Can Aykal (mixing engineer)
Cast: Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

Synopsis : Coffee Futures blends the Turkish custom of coffee fortune-telling with the story of Turkey’s decades-long attempt to join the European Union, revealing the textures of a society whose fate has long been nationally and internationally debated. It investigates the collective psychology of anticipating an uncertain future – slowly simmered while Turkey waits.

Additional info :

Director’s Biography:
Zeynep Devrim Gürsel is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of Michigan. Originally trained in literature, she received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She researches how things become imaginable both for individuals and groups, and how forms in which the past and today are narrated are shaped by and shape expectations of the future. She was introduced to the documentary world when she worked on Damming the Euphrates (Paxton Winters, 2001) in Southeast Turkey.

Film Website: http://coffeefuturesfilm.com

Film source :

DVD courtesy of D.E.R., Documentary Educational Resources