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NEW DAWN FADES In Post-Production

As Akın loses touch with his true self, his mind shifts into another reality. The streets of heaped districts, where evil became banal and mercy perished, are now home to 'devils' and 'demons'.


Writer & Director Gürcan Keltek
Producer Arda Çiltepe
Co-Producers Marc Van Goethem (NL) - 29P FILMS,
Stefan Gieren (GE) - THE STORYBAY


FUNDED BY
2022 MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
2021 Eurimages Co-Production Support
2021 Ministry of Culture of Italy
2021 Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
2020 Norwegian Film Institute | Sørfond

2020 Berlinale | World Cinema Fund 



SELECTED PLATFORMS
2023 Istanbul Film Festival | Meetings On the Bridge (WIP)
2018 Istanbul Film Festival | Meetings On the Bridge
       
*CNC Award*

2018 Antalya Film Festival | Antalya Film Forum
        
*Documentary Pitch Award*

2019 Cannes Film Festival | Cinéfondation - L'atelier
        
*Sørfond Award*

2019 The Norwegian Int'l FF Haugesund | Nordic
         Co-Production and Finance Market

2019 Sørfond Pitching Forum 


DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY

Born in Ä°zmir, Turkey, in 1973. Gürcan Keltek studied film in Dokuz Eylül University. After his graduation, he directed several shorts including Overtime (2012) which was selected to Visions Du Réel and DOK Leipzig. His medium-format film Colony (2015) made its world premiere at FIDMarseille. His first feature film Meteors (2017) premiered at Locarno Film Festival where it won Swatch Art Peace Hotel First Feature Film Award and Cinelab Award.

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