METEORS
2018 Films • 1h 20m
They come at night. Everyone steps out of their homes. They light torches and remember those who have walked these streets before them. In the next few hours, the city is on lockdown and an eclipse appears. At night, meteors start to fall. Blending documentary filmmaking and political commentary, and connecting the earthly to the cosmos, METEORS is a film about memory and disappearance – of people, places and things.
Direction: Gürcan Keltek
Script: Gürcan Keltek
Production: Arda Çiltepe
Co-Production: Marc Van Goethem, Burak Çevik
Cinematography: Mustafa Şen, Fırat Gürgen
Editing: Fazilet Onat
Sound: Gürcan Keltek
Cast: Ebru Ojen
Original Title: METEORLAR
Original Languages: Kurdish, Turkish
Film Production Countries: Netherlands, Türkiye
Biography of the Director/s
Born in İzmir, Gürcan Keltek studied film at Dokuz Eylül University before directing several shorts including OVERTIME (2012), selected at Visions Du Réel and DOK Leipzig. His medium-format film, COLONY (2015), was screened at FIDMarseille. METEORS (2017), his first feature film, premiered at Locarno Film Festival where it won Swatch Art Peace Hotel First Feature Film Award and Cinelab Award. GULYABANI (2018) premiered in the Signs of Life section at Locarno Film Festival.
Filmography of the Director/s
2018 - Gulyabani
2017 - Meteors
2015 - Colony
2012 - Overtime
Awards Won
Locarno Film Festival - Swatch First Feature Art Peace Hotel Award & Boccalino d'Oro - Independent Film Critics’ Best Film Award & Cinelab Award,
Milano Film Festival - Best Feature Award,
Jihlava International Documentary Festival - Best Documentary Debut,
Bratislava International Film Festival - Best Documentary Award,
Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Special Jury Award,
BAFICI Human Rights section - Best Film award.
World Sales:
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