Archive of films Brothers / Kardeşler
Turkey / Germany / Bulgaria
2017, 103 min
Section:
Official Selection - Competition
Year: 2018
Seventeen-year-old Yusuf comes home after spending four years at a detention center. His return to the family circle freshly recalls the act that his loved ones, bound by rigid tradition, forced Yusuf to commit. Directed with an assured hand, this intimate debut concerns guilt and punishment and how difficult it is to choose between blood ties and tradition on the one hand, and what is morally right on the other.
Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Yusuf comes home after spending four years at a detention center. His return to the family circle, and reuniting with his older brother Ramazan above all, freshly recall the act that the other family members, bound by rigid tradition, forced upon him as the younger son. In his intimate debut Ömür Atay shows an assured directorial hand as he unveils a family tragedy for the audience through a carefully measured release of information, a tragedy that forever disrupts relations between the individual members. With great precision the director portrays young Yusuf’s struggle to choose between blood ties and tradition on the one hand, and what he feels is morally right on the other.
Lenka Tyrpáková
About the director
Ömür Atay (b. 1969). Filmography: Necropolis (1998, short), Istanbul Tales (Anlat Istanbul, 2006, segment “Little Red Riding Hood”), Brothers (Kardeşler, 2018)
Contacts
Atay Film
Cihangir Mah. Somuncu Sok. Cem Palas Apt. No: 3/7, , Istanbul
Turkey
E-mail: [email protected]
About the film
Color, DCP
World premiere
Section: | Official Selection - Competition |
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Director: | Ömür Atay |
Screenplay: | Ömür Atay |
Dir. of Photography: | A. Emre Tanyildiz |
Music: | Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Viktor Chouchkov |
Editor: | Doruk Kaya, Amon Guillard |
Art Director: | Emre Yurtseven, Meral Efe Yurtseven |
Producer: | Funda Ödemiş |
Production: | Atay Film |
Coproduction: | Off Film, Fiction 2.0, Chouchkov Brothers |
Cast: | Yiğit Ege Yazar, Caner Şahin, Gözde Mutluer |
Contact: | Atay Film |
Guests
Funda Ödemiş
Producer
Ahmet Boyacioglu
Festival Organizer, Film Director, Producer
Ömür Atay
Film Director
Volkan Çevik
Film Crew
Yiğit Ege Yazar
Actor
Caner Şahin
Actor
Ahmet Emre Tanyıldız
Director of Photography
Ayşim Özgür
Film Crew
Stefan Gieren
Producer