Month: October 2022

Engin Ökmen

16’
Dokuz Eylül University
Turkey 2022

Before the cockfight of the evening,
İrfan’s favorite roosters refuse to fight.
Provoking Derya and Murat into a fight,
İrfan will make sure that the evening’s
fight goes on as usual.

Engin Ökmen graduated from Dokuz
Eylül University’s Department of Directing
in 2021. His short film Bi’ Zahmet
won the first prize at the TRT Future
Communicators Competition and Adana
Golden Boll Film Festival. The film, which
received the Environment Special Award
from the Sakarya Short Film Festival, was
a finalist at the Güzel Ordu Short Film
Festival and the Young Creative Awards
held in France.

Duhan İbrahim Eren, Erim
Erdoğan, and Halis Eren
Koçyiğit

10’
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Turkey 2022

A documentary project about the
story of the social transformation
of the Moda district in İstanbul in
the last 150 years. A chronological
journey through time and around the
mansions, the old and new apartment
buildings of a social place, to the
accompaniment of music.

Duhan İbrahim Eren was born in 1999.
He worked in festivals such as Altın
Koza; he was a camera assistant,
cinemotagrapher in the industry
and many student films. Halis Eren
Koçyiğit was born in 1998. He directed
short films, Ayna, Zaman ve Yalnızlık
Üzerine. The latter was a finalist in
the 2020 Shortcut Homemade Short
Film Competition. Emin Erdoğan was
born in 2001. He directed and edited
various student films. He is currently a
freelance writer.

Polina Kondrateva

18.00

Directing Faculty Of The Gerasimov
Institute Of Cinematography (VGIK)

Russia, 2022

Junior sergeant Komarov takes a detainee, Grisha, to the station to process the case. On the way the policeman finds out the details of what happened to the suspect. Money-wise Grisha helped an elderly woman, Marya Nikolaevna, to defend her apartment against the raiders. In self-defense, Marya Nikolayevna maimed the raider. For woman’s protection Grisha decides to take all the blame. Having learned everything, Komarov faces a moral dilemma: to follow the letter of the law or remain human.

Poliba was born in Moscow in 1998. She secretly from parents applied to the Directing Faculty of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and entered it. Student of the workshop of A.K. Kott and V.K. Kott. Since the freshman year she has began to work on the sets of large acting films. In 2019 Polina with some of her friends started a video production company.