KÖPEK
2016 Films
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1h 38m
An ordinary day in the megacity: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues on the streets. Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three have a secret love and on this day, they risk everything that satisfies their longing, if only for a moment. An authentic, delicate and unsettling story about love and death and the Turkish society at the beginning of the 21st century.
Direction: Esen Işık
Script: Esen Işık
Production: Cornelia Seitler, Brigitte Hofer, Cornelia Seitler, Brigitte Hofer
Cinematography: Gabriel Sandru
Editing: Aurora Vögeli
Production Design: Veli Kahraman
Costume Design: Melis Atinç Gamsizoğlu
Make-Up: Marina Aebi
Sound: Guido Keller
Original Score: Marcel Vaid
Cast: Çağla Akalin, Beren Tuna, Oğuzhan Sancar, Bekir Sevenkan, Bariş Atay, Salih Bademci, Hakan Karsak, Cemal Toktaş
Original Title: KÖPEK
Original Language: Turkish
Film Production Country: Switzerland
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/koepekfilm/
Biography of the Director/s
Esen Isik was born in 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey, and has dual Swiss and Turkish citizenship. She has lived in Switzerland since 1990 and has studied at the Zurich Art Academy’s film & video department from where she graduated in 1997. Her short film THE STOLEN FATHER received the Swiss Film Prize 2000 for Best Short Film, her short film YOU & ME the Swiss Film Prize «Quartz» 2012 for Best Short Film. And finally she received the «Quartz» for Best Feature Film for KÖPEK.
Filmography of the Director/s
2012 - YOU & ME, short
2001 - EINE GENERATION ZWISCHEN ZWEI WELTEN, short
2001 - REISE OHNE RÜCKKEHR, short
1999 - THE STOLEN FATHER, short
1997 - ÖLMEYE YATMAK – SICH ZUM STERBEN HINLEGEN, short
1996 - LINIE 83, short
1995 - WEGGEHEN, short
1994 - IN DEN KELLER, short
1993 - ASKIN, short
Awards Won
Swiss Film Prize 2016 for best feature, Swiss Film Prize 2016 for best actress Beren Tuna
World Sales:
Maximage
Maya Galluzzi
Neugasse 6
Zürich, 8005, Switzerland
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +41 44 274 88 66
Website: http://www.maximage.ch/
Press:
Maximage
Maya Galluzzi
Neugasse 6
Zürich, 8005, Switzerland
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +41 44 274 88 66
Website: http://www.maximage.ch/
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