Sunday, May 6th
7:00 PM
BROKEN MUSSELS (Kirik midyeler)
(Turkey/Sweden/Bosnia-Herzegovina; Drama; 2011. 94 minutes.)
Director : Seyfettin Tokmak
Producer : Serkan Cakarer, Lizette Jonjić
Styled as a gritty drama about street urchins roaming the underbelly of Turkey’s capital and dreaming of going to Germany, Broken Mussels ventures into the slums of Istanbul. There are organ traffickers, sick immigrants hiding from the law, slum lords, and relentless...
Monday, May 7th
7:00 PM
COFFEE FUTURES (Neyse Halim Çiksin Falim)
(Turkey; Documentary; 2010. 22 minutes.)
Director : Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
Producer : Umut Gürsel, Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
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...
Monday, May 7th
7:30 PM
FUTURE LASTS FOREVER (Gelecek Uzun Surer)
(Turkey; Drama; 2011. 108 minutes.)
Director : Özcan Alper
Producer : Ersin Celik, Soner Alper
Sumru is a university student at work on a comprehensive collection of Anatolian elegies. When she begins what she believes is a short journey to southeastern Turkey to search for her lover and add to her compilation, she meets Ahmet, a young street vendor selling bootleg movies. Her journey with...
