Archive of films Passed by Censor / Görülmüştür

Turkey / Germany / France
2018, 95 min

Section: East of the West - Competition
Year: 2019

Zakir works in a prison as a censor. Each day he reads dozens of letters, carefully blacking out everything not meant for the eyes of those serving time. A photograph inserted into one of the envelopes disrupts his regular routine, and his interest in the unknown woman in the picture grows into an obsession. A psychological study of an individual who gradually loses his personal and professional integrity while becoming trapped in his own fantasy world.


Synopsis

Zakir works in a prison as a censor. His days are spent reading other people’s letters, carefully blacking out everything not meant for the eyes of those serving time. In order to escape the stress of his job, he signs up for a creative writing course. One day, however, he is given a tricky assignment – to select a photograph and write a fictional account inspired by the picture. He decides to use a photo he finds enclosed in one of the letters. But Zakir’s interest in the woman depicted shifts beyond the assigned task and becomes a compulsive preoccupation to help her, regardless of whether her cruel fate is real or just a figment of his imagination. A psychological study of a man who succumbs to his obsession, unable to distinguish fantasy from reality.

Anna Kořínek

About the director

Serhat Karaaslan

Serhat Karaaslan (b. 1984, Varto, Turkey). Filmography: Bicycle (Bîsîklet, 2011, short), Musa (2012, short), Ice Cream (Dondurma, 2014, short), Passed by Censor (Görülmüştür, 2018)

Contacts

BAC Films
9, rue Pierre Dupont, 75010, Paris
France
Tel: +33 180 491 000
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.bacfilms.com

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About the film

Color, DCP
International premiere

Section: East of the West - Competition
   
Director: Serhat Karaaslan
Screenplay: Serhat Karaaslan
Dir. of Photography: Meryem Yavuz
Editor: Ali Aga
Art Director: Ibrahim Ildem
Producer: Serkan Cakarer, Undine Filter, Thomas Kral, Judith Nora, Priscilla Bertin
Production: +90 Film Production
Coproduction: Departures Film, Silex Films
Cast: Berkay Ates, Saadet Isil Aksoy, Fusun Demirel
Sales: BAC Films

Guests

Serhat Karaaslan

Film Director

Undine Filter

Producer


Thomas Král

Producer

Berkay Ates

Actor


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