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BLACK SUN
A coming storm after dog days dawns during a sudden road trip to a distant island for a funeral. The dead is buried in haste and a man makes a detour through Aegean Turkey. The funeral is eclipsed by a last wish. The wind blows ashes where it pleases.
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2019 | 1.77:1 | 16mm | 25fps | Color | 5.1 | Turkish w/ English subtitles | 20'
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Cast Enes Yurdaün, Seren Åžirince, Ariya Toprak, Sencar SaÄŸdıç and
Nur Sürer, Ercan Kesal
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Director & Editor Arda Çiltepe
Script Arda Çiltepe​ & Julia Tielke
Producers Alara HamamcıoÄŸlu, Öykü Canlı
Co-Producer HFBK Hamburg
Director of Photography Julia Tielke
Colorist Nils Petersen
Sound Designer & Mix Postbıyık
Sound Recordist Enis DanabaÅŸ
Art Director İdris Kaan Akbay
First Assistant Director Ozan Yoleri
Gaffer Yusuf Elbaşı
Focus Puller Elisa Juri
Second Assistant Director Aslı ÖzoÄŸuz
Production Coordinators Sergen Dilmen, Dilara Çatak
Boom Operator Berkay Sarıtaş
Creative Consultant Gürcan Keltek
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SCREENINGS
2019 Locarno Film Festival - Pardi di Domani
*Pardino d'Oro for Best International Short Film*
2019 Sarajevo Film Festival - Short Film Competition
2019 Reykjavik Int'l Film Festival - International Shorts
2019 Ayvalık Film Festival
2019 Bosphorus Film Festival - Short Film Competition
2019 Antalya International Golden Orange FF - Short Film Competition
2019 Auteur Film Festival - Brave Balkans
2020 Minimalen Short Film Festival - European Award Winners
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DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
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Before graduating from Economics at BoÄŸaziçi University, he worked as a translator for several major publishing houses in Turkey. He co-produced Meteors (dir. Gürcan Keltek, 2017, Locarno Festival’s Filmmakers of the Present) and Gulyabani (dir. Gürcan Keltek, 2018, Locarno Festival’s Signs of Life). He produced The Pillar of Salt (dir. Burak Çevik, 2018, Berlinale Forum). Besides studying master’s degree in film at Hamburg Fine Arts University, he is the producer of Gürcan Keltek’s next feature project-in-development New Dawn Fades and the co-producer of Semih Gülen and Mustafa Emin BüyükcoÅŸkun’s debut project-in-development Athlete.
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