Earning her living by selling pinwheels, pumpkin seeds and occasionally reciting blessing prayers for couples posing by the sea, a free-spirited peddler roams around the forsaken shores of the Bosphorus. She crosses paths with heartbroken teenagers, confronts an obnoxious admirer, exorcists, and exhibitionists. She mingles with fellow street sellers, fisherwomen, treasure-hunters and garbage collectors, all enclosed in a dreamy microcosm of their own.
 
Like frogs gathered around a pond, they only have each other and the timeworn, yet still glittering, Diamond Sea.

2021 | 3.00:1 | 2K DCP | 25fps | Color | 5.1 | Turkish w/ English subtitles | 18'

Cast 
İpek Türktan Kaynak, 
Ali Seçkiner Alıcı, Mustafa Uzunyılmaz,
Hüseyin Sevimli, Şirin Taşpınar, Ulaş Akarsu, Günsu Sarı, Yenak Özkarslıoğlu, Türev Cin, Ömer Şerif Arısan, Ardan Özmenoğlu, Simge Güneş, Asra Çıra, Manolya Akdemir, Zeynep Tümertekin, Berktan Alphan, Hülya Ekşigil,
Sezer Türksoy, Azade Simavi, Ulaş Yılmaz, Süleyman Simavi 

Writer & Director Arda Ekşigil
Producers Sinan Kesova, Öykü Canlı, Alara Hamamcıoğlu
Co-producer Harun Simavi
Director of Photography Meryem Yavuz
Production Designer Natali Yeres
Editor Can Eskinazi
Sound Designer Cenker Kökten
Sound Recordist Ahmet Burak Gürbüz, Sertaç Selvi
Color Grading *
First Assistant Director Ozan Yoleri
Focus Puller Neslihan Siligür
Assistant Directors Manolya Akdemir, Aslı Özoğuz
Make-up Murat Polat
Set Decorator Eda Çekemci
Key Grip Serdar Karaibiş
Digital Imaging Technicians Yusuf Arık, Özgün Ersoy 
Second Assistant Camera Ümit Aksu
Third Assistant Camera Eren Akgül
Boom Operator Sinan İnce
Production Assistant Batuhan Çakma
Catering Hülya Ekşigil
Transportation Haluk Ataç, Hüseyin Karaman, Volkan Altunbaş
Generator Truck Driver Naci Acar

SCREENINGS
2021 40th Istanbul Film Festival - Short Film Competition
2021 9th Bosphorus Film Festival - National Short Film Competition
         *Best Fiction Short Film*
2021 22nd Izmir Short Film Festival - National Competition


DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY

Arda Ekşigil is a Turkish-Canadian director born in Istanbul in 1989. After finishing the Lycée Français Pierre Loti in Istanbul in 2007, he moved to Montreal where he studied Ancient Philosophy, Literature and Archeology at the University of Montreal. He obtained a master’s degree from McGill University specializing in early modern Ottoman History. He is the co-writer of Outskirts (2017), which won the FIPRESCI award at the 36th Istanbul Film Festival and competed in Sarajevo, Les Arcs, Belgrade and other festivals. He is the director and writer of The Knights’ Templar (2018) selected to the Istanbul Film Festival and Arava International Film Festival (Israel). His last short film, The Diamond Sea (2021) premiered at the 40th Istanbul Film Festival.