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 Şirince, Ariya Toprak, Sencar Sağdıç and 

Nur Sürer, Ercan Kesal

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Director & Editor Arda Çiltepe

Script Arda Çiltepe​ & Julia Tielke

Producers Alara Hamamcıoğlu, Öykü Canlı

Co-Producer HFBK Hamburg

Director of Photography Julia Tielke

Colorist Nils Petersen

Sound Designer & Mix Postbıyık

Sound Recordist Enis Danabaş

Art Director İdris Kaan Akbay

First Assistant Director Ozan Yoleri

Gaffer Yusuf Elbaşı

Focus Puller Elisa Juri

Second Assistant Director Aslı Özoğuz

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 Boğaziçi 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 Büyükcoşkun’s debut project-in-development Athlete.

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