Köpek - Stories from Istanbul
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Köpek - Stories from Istanbul |
| Original title | Köpek |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Turkish |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Esen Işık |
| script | Esen Işık |
| production |
Brigitte Hofer , Cornelia Seitler , Emrah Gamisoglu |
| music | Marcel Vaid |
| camera | Gabriel Sandru |
| cut | Aurora Vögeli |
| occupation | |
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Köpek - Tales from Istanbul (original title: Köpek ) is an episode film by the Turkish-Swiss director Esen Işık from 2015 . Oğuzhan Sancar, Beren Tuna and Çağla Akalın play the leading roles . The feature film directorial debut of the director Işik premiered at the Zurich Film Festival 2015 and won the Swiss Film Award 2016 for best film and best actress (Beren Tuna).
The film is dedicated to the Italian artist Pippa Bacca , who was raped and murdered on the outskirts of Istanbul on her 'peace journey', which was to hitchhike and in a wedding dress from Milan to Jerusalem.
content
One day in Istanbul, three storylines told in parallel:
Instead of going to school, ten-year-old Cemo sells paper handkerchiefs on the street to support his family. He finds an orphaned dog and takes it with him to care for. Through the dog, he finally gets into conversation with the adored girl from a good family, but is scared away by a security guard.
Hayat is married to a suspicious and violent man. When her childhood sweetheart, believed dead, reports, she meets with him in a tea house. Although nothing more happens, she has to explain herself to her husband on her return.
The transsexual prostitute Ebru constantly has to fend off homophobic insults and assaults. She is fighting by all means to win back her former friend. However, he has chosen a middle-class life and another woman.
criticism
“It is deeply moving how much feeling the director tells her everyday stories of disappointed love that lead to brutal violence in the atmosphere of urban coldness. Işık paints a pessimistic picture of the Turkish metropolis, the beauty of which the protagonists can only imagine from a distance, as if from postcard pictures. A massive work of great immediacy. "
"[...] metaphorically as strong and light as the wanton breezes over the Bosphorus, which stroke all these people's faces, in their hair, in their unfree life, their longing."
“Although her figures are more of a symbolic character, they are delicately and lovingly drawn. The fact that they even develop an amazing emotional depth and great potential for sympathy is largely due to the actors. "
Awards
- Swiss Film Award 2016 to Esen Işık for the best film
- Swiss Film Award 2016 to Beren Tuna for best actress
- Swiss Film Award 2016 (special award from the Academy) to Guido Keller for the best sound mix
Festivals & nominations
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Swiss Film Award 2016: Nominated in further categories:
- Best Screenplay (Esen Işık)
- Best Cinematography (Gabriel Sandru)
- Best Score (Marcel Vaid)
- European Film Awards 2016, Official Selection (EFA Feature Film Selection)
- 51st Solothurn Film Festival 2016 (nominated for audience award)
- 15th International Independent Film Festival Istanbul , 2016
- Pembe Hayat Kuir Festival Ankara 2016
- 31st Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2016, Mexico (Guest of Honor)
- Zurich Film Festival 2015: Nominated in the category 'Focus Switzerland, Germany, Austria'
- Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig 2015: Nominated for the 'Heinrich' (audience award)
Web links
- Official website for the film
- Köpek - stories from Istanbul in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Köpek - Stories from Istanbul at swissfilms.ch
- Martin Walder, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , detailed film review
- Film review (video) at SRF
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Köpek stories from Istanbul . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; June 2016; test number: 160 703 K).
- ↑ 2016. ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.schweizerfilmpreis.ch. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
- ↑ Interview with the director . In: Tages-Anzeiger , December 8, 2015, accessed February 4, 2016.
- ↑ Susanne Ostwald: Foreign worlds, very close . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 2, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
- ↑ Martin Walder: Cold breezes over the Bosporus . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 9, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
- ↑ Tereza Fischer: http://www.filmbulletin.ch/full/filmkritik/2015-12-12_kopek In: Filmbulletin , print edition 8/2015. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
- ↑ [1] www.schweizerfilmpreis.ch. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
- ↑ [2] www.schweizerfilmpreis.ch. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
- ↑ [3] www.schweizerfilmpreis.ch. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
- ↑ for the Swiss Film Prize 2016. ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.schweizerfilmpreis.ch. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
- ^ European Film Academy, Archive. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Archive. Retrieved January 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Swissfilms portal. Retrieved January 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Program 2015. Zurich Film Festival, accessed on February 4, 2016 .
- ^ Braunschweig International Film Festival: Home. (No longer available online.) In: filmfest-braunschweig.de. Archived from the original on August 23, 2015 ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Martin Walder: Cold breezes over the Bosporus . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 9, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
