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Tickets available at Biletix sales channels (0216 556 98 00; www.biletix.com and retail
outlets) and at box offices of Emek, Atlas, Rexx movie theatres between 10.00-19.00 hours
(without service fee).
Tickets will be available at Pera Museum Hall and CityLife Cinema (City’s), only on
screening days and for their own venues.

Ticket Prices:
                                                            Discount (students and
                                          Regular
                                                               senior citizens)
Weekdays (11.00-13.30-16.00)              TL 3,50                   TL 3,50
Regular                                     TL 10                     TL 7
Gala                                        TL 15                    TL 15
Turkish Films                             TL 3,50                    TL 3,5


INDEX
$9.99
Director:
Tatia Rosenthal
Cast:
Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, Samuel Johnson
Israel-Australia, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 78'
English; Turkish s.t.

"Have you ever wondered what is the meaning of life? Why do we exist? The answers are in this small
yet amazing booklet! And for a mere $9.99!" This is the ad that alters the life of the unemployed Dave
who still lives with his father. When his questions are answered, he wants to share everything he
knows, so his surreal path crosses with his unusual neighbours: an old man and his disgruntled
guardian angel, a magician in debt, a little boy who sets his piggy bank free… This superb comedy
about the post-modern meaning of life and happiness is a stop-motion animation film based on the
short stories of Etgar Keret, who had co-directed Jellyfish in 2007

Yeni Ruya:15 We. 16.00
Atlas:16 Th. 21.30
Rexx:18 Sa. 13.30

10 TO 11 **
11'E 10 KALA
Director:
Pelin Esmer
Cast:
Nejat İşler, Mithat Esmer, Tayanç Ayaydın
Türkiye-Fransa-Almanya, 2009
HDCAM / Colour / 100'

The fiction feature debut of Pelin Esmer who won many awards with her documentary The Play, 10 to
11 is the story of a passionate collector Mithat and the concierge of the building, Ali. For Mithat
Istanbul is as vast as his collections and for Ali is nothing more than a few blocks around the building.
When the neighbors decide to have the building rebuilt with the fear of earthquake and the wish for a
more valuable house, Mithat’s most challenging struggle to save his collections begins. The building
becomes the common destiny of these two men living alone. Their relationship that begins with the
collaboration to save the continuity of the collections changes track with Mithat’s handing Istanbul over
to Ali and ends when they involuntarily change each other’s fate.

Emek: 16 Th. 11.00

1974, UNE PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE*
Director :
Raymond Depardon
Cast:
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Charles Aznavour, Jacques Chirac, Philippe Clay
France, 1974
35 mm / Colour / 90'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

Raymond Depardon was both lucky and very unlucky with the first documentary project he ever filmed.
In 1974, he was commissioned by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, then the French Minister of Economy and
Finance, to follow his presidential campaign. Depardon followed the dashing candidate everywhere
and captured rare instants in the lavish campaign that made use of American promotional methods,
ahead of French politics of the day. In the end, Giscard d'Estaing won 50.81% of the votes and served
for seven years as president, but the film was censured for 28 years until 2002 when it was first
screened

Atlas: 11 Sa. 11.00
Beyoglu: 14 Tu. 13.30

3 APPLES FELL FROM THE SKY
GÖKTEN 3 ELMA DÜŞTÜ
Director :
Raşit Çelikezer
Cast:
Köksal Engür, Bennu Yıldırımlar, İsmail Hacıoğlu
Turkey, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 119'
Turkish; English s.t

2008 Bursa Golden Karagöz (Best Film; Best Screenplay)
Director, scriptwriter, and playwright Raşit Çelikezer has written, produced, and directed this feature
film directorial debut. Çelikezer also wrote the screenplay of Erden Kıral's Vicdan / Conscience. The
film brings together three loners from three generations. Ali runs away from home to his grandfather in
İstanbul, who he has not met before. The grandfather, Recep, lives alone, keeping the army discipline
going at home. He also tries to have his neighbour, the prostitute Nilgün, thrown away from the house.
That night, these three meet on the roof. They have killed someone.

Beyoglu: 15 We. 11.00

3 HOURS
3 SAAT
Director:
Can Candan
Turkey, 2008
DVCAM / Colour / 118'
Turkish; English s.t.

2008 Bodrum Turkish Film Critics' Association Awards
3 Hours is an independent documentary that tells the one year long adventure of six university
candidates out of around two million young people. The university entrance exam (ÖSS ¬ –short for
Student Selection Examination in Turkish) is a part of the Turkish culture now, like a law of nature.
This film follows six candidates, all high school students, Melis, Çiğdem, Derya, Edin, Yunus and Mert,
as they experience all stages of the ÖSS, on their own, with their families, at school, and at the end of
everything, for twelve months, from new year's eve 2004 to new year's eve 2005

Pera: 16 Th. 19.00

35 SHOTS OF RUM **
35 RHUMS
Director:
Claire Denis
Cast:
Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Grégorie Colin
France-Germany, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 100'
French; Italian & Turkish s.t.

2008 Hamburg CICAE Art Cinema Award
Poet-cineaste Claire Denis' latest film is in the family drama genre and follows her previous work in
terms of atmosphere over narrative. The film traces the working underclass of France, but centres on
family ties through a father-daughter relationship: Lionel and Jo. Jo is devoted to her father; their bond
has grown even stronger after her mother's suicide. But she befriends a young taxi driver, and he
meets a middle-aged woman; several encounters ensue. The breaking point comes when Jo's
boyfriend decides to move abroad for business. The score of the film was composed by the British
rock band Tindersticks.

Emek: 13 Mo. 19.00
Emek: 14 Tu. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 15 We. 21.30

4857
Directors:
Petra Holzer, Selçuk Erzurumlu, Ethem Özgüven
Turkey, 2008
Betacam / Colour / 30'
Turkish; English s.t.

Tuzla Cemetery overlooks Tuzla Shipyards. Now start walking down the cemetery slope. On your left
is the military zone, green and devoid of humans. Then all of a sudden you see nothing but concrete
blocks of flats. The workers leave their homes around seven in the morning to work "outside", in the
shipyards, in leather and supply industries. Keep walking down the slope: factories, the E5 freeway,
the crossroads, the local express train. The Aydınlı Bay packed with almost all of Turkey's shipyards.
The workers who go through forty eight different doors everyday. The time unit in the shipyards is the
split second between making a living and death, between hope and pain, their and ours. Tuzla
Cemetery overlooks Tuzla Shipyards.

Pera: 15 We. 21.30

8*
Directors:
Jane Campion, Gael Garcia Bernal; Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus
Van Sant, Wim Wenders
Cast:
Nigist Anteneh, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Dieudonne Ilboudo, Konkona Sen Sharma, Alice Englert, Loydi
Hucshva Haynas, Pendo Duku
France, 2008
Betacam / Colour / 103'
French-Amharic-Icelandic-English-Shipibo; English & Turkish s.t.
In September 2000, the United Nations committed to halve world poverty by 2015. They defined 8
goals known as "The Millennium Development Goals". With an introduction by Catherine Deneuve,
eight filmmakers have engaged to share their vision of these major issues with the public: Sissako
dealing with extreme poverty and hunger; Gael Garcia Bernal with the right to primary education,
Gaspar Noé with AIDS, Mira Nair with gender equality, Jane Campion with environmental
sustainability, Gus Van Sant with infant mortality, Jan Kounen with medicine and Wim Wenders with
global partnership for development.

Beyoglu: 4 Sa. 16.00
Beyoglu: 14 Tu. 11.00
Beyoglu: 19 Su. 16.00

8th WONDERLAND**
Directors :
Nicolas Alberny & Jean Mach
Cast:
Matthew Géczy, Alain Azerot, Robert Bradford
France-Italy, 2008
Digibeta / Colour / 94'
English-French-Spanish-Italian-Russian; English & Turkish s.t.
How to fight a country that doesn't exist, but is perfectly organized? From Russia to the United States,
from South America to Japan passing through Europe and the Middle East… Scattered all over the
world, everyday people, sick and tired of political systems and being controlled by the media, decide to
create a virtual state and restore their democracy. They are millions of members of an internet site
called 8th Wonderland, and their operations run internationally. But when their politics start to change,
suddenly they find themselves under the spotlight. This is a fantastic fiction in disguise of political
thriller.

Beyoglu: 17 Fr. 21.30
Beyoglu: 19 Su. 19.00

A CHRISTMAS TALE *
UN CONTE DE NOËL
Director:
Arnaud Desplechin
Cast:
Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Melville Poupaud
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 150'
French; Turkish s.t.

2008 Cannes Special 61st Festival Prize
Dickensian with humorous, satirical, poetic elements and vividly drawn characters, and typical
Desplechin with themes such as family, madness and intricate loves, A Christmas Tale is a cruel
drama that dissects family through sibling rivalry and grief. On Christmas Day, Junon and her husband
Abel unite with their three children: playwright Elizabeth, raging alcoholic Henri, and Ivan, the
youngest. Junon declares that she has cancer, and she will either undergo chemo or search for a
bone marrow donor. Obviously, bad blood runs in this family.

Atlas: 17 Fr. 21.30
Rexx: 18 Sa. 21.30
Emek: 19 Su. 16.00




A FATAL DRESS: POLYGAMY
KIRASÊ MIRINE: HEWÎTÎ
Director:
Müjde Arslan
Turkey, 2009
HD / Colour / 52'
Turkish-Kurdish; English s.t.

In her latest documentary, Müjde Arslan, investigates the "second wife" phenomenon in Mardin
province and its effects on women, taking inspiration from her paternal aunt who was sent as a second
wife to her cousin when she was 16-years-old and was paralysed after domestic violence. In this
documentary, aunt Emine's story is actually told by other second wives. Being the second wife is
domestic violence in itself, therefore women describe this situation as "wearing the dress of death."
Emine will never be able to talk again, but what about other second wives?

Pera: 15 We. 19.00

A FILM WITH ME IN IT
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
Cast:
Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Amy Huberman
Ireland, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 89'
English; Turkish s.t.

"A blacker-than-black comedy with a wickedly sharp sense of humour," according to Todd Brown at
Twitch, A Film With Me In It tells the morbidly delightful account of a hapless actor named Mark (Mark
Doherty, also the film's screenwriter) who is struggling to make it through a day from hell, and his
neighbour and best friend Pearce, a penniless, clueless, aspiring screenwriter. Mark gets home to his
disabled brother (his real life brother David), unhappy girlfriend and big dog after failing an audition to
discover that they haven't paid the rent for three months. Even when his girlfriend leaves him, tragedy
has not hit yet, the dreadful (deadful) day has just begun.

Emek: 14 Tu. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 15 We. 13.30
Rexx: 17 Fr. 21.30



A GERMAN MIND WITH A TURKISH HEART
TÜRK GİBİ BAŞLA ALMAN GİBİ BİTİR
Director :
Murat Şeker
Turkey, 2008
Betacam / Colour / 60'
Turkish-German; English s.t.

This documentary follows the two feature fiction films that Murat Şeker had completed, Gravity Zero
and Love Eclipse, and observes certain figures of Turkish origin who are prominent in the Germany's
cultural atmosphere, featuring interviews and works by these artists who have become more and more
popular in the past few years. Thirteen artists were interviewed in Cologne, Dusseldorf and Berlin for
the film, some of which are: director Neco Çelik, musicians Muhabbet and Lady Bitch Ray, actor Tim
Seyfi, Aziza A, stand up artist Fatih Çevikkollu, and opera singer Güneş Gürler.

Pera: 16 Th. 16.00

A LAKE *
UN LAC
Director :
Philippe Grandrieux
Cast:
Dmitry Kubasov, Natalie Rehorova, Alexei Solonchev
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 90'
French; English & Turkish s.t.
2008 Venice Horizons-Special Mention
The director of the 1998 drama Sombre returns with a powerful, almost silent film that he wrote,
directed and shot. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the son, is a young man with a
pure heart. A woodcutter. An ecstatic, prey to epileptic fits, he is entirely opened to the nature that
surrounds him. Alexi is terribly close to his younger sister, Hege. Their blind mother, their father, and
their little brother are the silent witnesses to their overwhelming love. Then a stranger arrives, Jurgen,
a young man barely older than Alexi…

Atlas: 15 We. 13.30
Atlas: 18 Sa. 16.00




A WOMAN'S WAY
STRELLA
Director :
Panos H. Koutras
Cast:
Mina Orfanou, Yiannis Kokiasmenos, Minos Theoharis
Greece, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 113'
Greek; English & Turkish s.t.

Yiorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small
Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets
Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But
the past is catching up with Yiorgos. With Strella on his side he will have to find a new way out. An
extraordinary and spellbinding relationship, a post-modern Greek tragedy in the glowing nights of
Athens

Emek: 5 Su. 19.00
Atlas: 6 Mo. 13.30
Yeni Ruya: 7 Tu. 19.00

ABSURDISTAN
Director:
Veit Helmer
Cast:
Kristyna Malerova, Maximilian Mauff, Nino Chkheidze
Germany-Azerbaijan, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 87'
Russian; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Bavarian Film Awards: Special Film Award
2008 German Film Awards: Best Production Design
Inspired by the "sex boycott" of women of in Sirt, a small village in Antalya, 2001, director Helmer
made this combo of fable and cheerful romantic comedy. Absurdistan is the name of an isolated
mountain village. When the water pipe system built generations ago fails, the women wisely force their
husbands to repair the system by going on a strike of sex. Meanwhile when beautiful Aya tells
Temelko that he will not have her otherwise, Temelko frantically tries to repair the pipes by himself.

Atlas 6 Mo. 16.00
Atlas: 8 We. 19.00
Rexx: 9 Th. 19.00

ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE
AKIRESU TO KAME
Director:
Takeshi Kitano
Cast:
Beat Takeshi, Kanako Higuchi, Yurei Yanagi
Japan, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 119'
Japanese; English & Turkish s.t.

A stand-up comic, novelist, painter, academic, and film director, Takeshi Kitano once more tackles the
conflict between art, capitalism and imagination, completing the surreal autobiographical trilogy that
began with Takeshis and later Glory to the Filmmaker!, and traces the lifetime failure of an aspiring
artist. Taking its title from Greek philosopher Zeno's famous paradox, Achilles and the Tortoise follows
Machisu from his childhood days, pursuing his dream of becoming a famous painter. The middle-aged
Machisu is played by Beat Takeshi, and his (quite successful) paintings are also by Kitano.

Yeni Ruya 6 Mo. 19.00
Yeni Ruya 9 Th. 11.00
Atlas: 19 Su. 19.00

ADORATION
Director :
Atom Egoyan
Cast:
Arsinée Khanjian, Devon Bostick, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard
Canada, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 101'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Cannes Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Egoyan returns to his known style and deals with grief and loss on a more personal level in the age of
terror, technology, fear and shifting identities, as we redefine individuality, intimacy, and
communication. While completing a school project, Simon re-imagines a newspaper story on terrorism
as if the couple in question was his parents who were killed in a car crash. When he puts his story on
the internet with a false identity, it has a public impact he never anticipates: his friends, terrorism
theorists, actual survivors all react. Meanwhile, he delves into the well-guarded family secrets

Emek: 12 Su. 21.30
Rexx: 15 We. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 16 Th. 19.00

ALI'S EIGHT DAYS
ALİ'NİN SEKİZ GÜNÜ
Director:
Cemal Şan
Cast:
Serdar Orçin, Begüm Birgören, Ufuk Bayraktar
Turkey, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 107'
Turkish; English s.t.

The third and final instalment of Cemal Şan's , Mind & Heart" trilogy is structured around the "mind".
The eponymous hero of the film, Ali's life passes as a routine between his house and the grocery store
he owns. He does the same things every day. But his ordinary life begins to change with Zeynep, a girl
who has recently moved to the neighbourhood. The platonic love he feels for her adds enthusiasm to
his life for the first time. He starts curiously to follow her with curiosity to find out that she has a man in
her life, Mehmet. Stalking this couple, Ali will discover that even when he has broken all his rules, he
will still be standing on his own in life.

Emek: 17 Fr. 19.00

ALONE
ISSIZ ADAM
Director:
Çağan Irmak
Cast:
Cemal Hünal, Melis Birkan, Yıldız Kültür
Turkey, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 113'
Turkish; English st.

Following the fantastical fairy tale Ulak / The Messenger that won the People's Choice Award in 2008,
at İstanbulFilm Festival, Çağan Irmak this time tells a tale of the metropolis. Alone is a film that tells of
people isolated and left lonely by modern life, a story about food, mothers, old songs and love; a story
both bitter and full of hope. Thirty-something Alper is a talented chef who runs his own restaurant,
caught in a triangle of gastronomic creations, one-night stands and escort girls. Alper one day meets
Ada, an attractive, unassuming, childish young woman who designs children's clothes. A passionate
love affair sparkles between them, something they never had experienced before. However, Alper
feels more restricted, as Ada is blissfully unaware of his silent screams.

Beyoglu: 14 Tu. 21.30

ANDREI RUBLIOV
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast:
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
USSR, 1966
35 mm / B&W / 185'
Russian; English & Turkish s.t.

1969 Cannes FIPRESCI Prize
1971 French Syndicate of Cinema Critics: Best Foreign Film
One of Andrei Tarkovsky's greatest masterpieces, this film is loosely based on the great Russian icon
painter Andrei Rublev, but is also a realistic depiction of medieval Russia. Released with a 39-minute
shortened censured version in the Soviet Union due to its depiction of violence, political complicity,
and nudity, it is widely considered as one of the director's best. It is not an accurate biography, but
rather a manifesto about the essence of art, the importance of faith, artistic freedom in the face of
hypocrisy, despotism and technology.

Yeni Ruya: 7 Tu. 21.30
Rexx: 10 Fr. 16.00



APPALOOSA
Director:
Ed Harris
Cast:
Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger
USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 114'
English; Turkish s.t.

Ed Harris, the co-writer, producer and director of this traditionalist western with contemporary
references, also stars alongside Viggo Mortensen as the freelance lawman Marshall Virgil Cole who is
hired with his deputy Everett Hitch to defend the lawless western town of Appaloosa from the
murderous evil rancher Randall and his gang. Virgil and Everett have been friends for many years,
and they have been through a lot together. But their efforts are disrupted and friendship tested by the
arrival of a refined woman from the city: "a widow, not a whore", who is there to play the piano. A
standoff is inevitable between the rancher and the lawmen.

Rexx: 4 Sa. 21.30
Emek: 5 Su. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 7 Tu. 16.00

ASHIK KERIB
ASHUK-GARIBI
Director:
Sergei Paradjanov
Cast:
Yuri Mgoyan, Sofika Chiaureli, Ramaz Chkhikvadze
USSR, 1988
35 mm / Colour / 80'
Russian; English & Turkish s.t.

1988 European Film Academy Felix Awards: Best Art Direction
1989 İstanbul Special Jury Prize
1989 Moscow Nika Awards: Best Film; Best Director; Best Cinematographer; Best Production Design
The final film that Paradjanov completed was made in memory of his close friend Tarkovsky, and
based on a short story by Lermontov to tell the tale of Ashik Kerib who travels the world for seven
years and earn enough money to be worthy of the daughter of a wealthy man. Dispensing with
conventional storytelling, the film is composed of gloriously shot and choreographed tableaux
illustrating Azerbaijani folklore.

Atlas: 5 Su. 13.30

ATHENS-ISTANBUL
ATHINA-KONSTADINOUPOLI
Director:
Nikos Panayotopoulos
Cast:
Lefteris Voyadzis, Alexia Kaltsiki, Dimitris Poulikakos
Greece, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 103'
Greek; English & Turkish s.t.

This is a road movie that starts in a traffic jam and as its title suggests, it begins in Athens, ending in
İstanbul, following a depressed lawyer, who, after his recent divorce, sets off a journey in his car to
visit his sick father in Thessaloniki, but ends up, after many stops and detours in İstanbul. His trip is
more of a runaway along which he meets a young wandering lady, realises his middle-age crisis,
questioning life, death, sex, money and identity. "There's no border in the other world because you
don't need borders when you can't move!"

Beyoglu: 4 Sa. 21.30
Beyoglu: 5 Su. 16.00
Atlas: 14 Tu. 11.00

AUTUMN
SONBAHAR
Director:
Özcan Alper
Cast:
Onur Saylak, Raife Yenigül, Megi Kobaladze
Turkey-Germany, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 106'
Georgian-Turkish; English s.t.

2008 Locarno CICAE Art Cinemas Prize
2008 Antalya NETPAC Award
2008 Roma MedFilm Special Mention
2008 Kars Silver Goose; Turkish Film Critics' Assc. Award
2008 Turkey Turkish Film Critics' Association Awards: Best Film; Best Screenplay; Best
Cinematography; Best Actor (O. Saylak)
Özcan Alper's feature debut follows Yusuf, released from prison on health grounds 10 years later. He
returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region, where he's welcomed only by his sick and
elderly mother and childhood friend Mikail. When he meets Eka, a beautiful young Georgian hooker,
love becomes a final attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.

Atlas: 16 Th. 11.00

BELLAMY*
Director:
Claude Chabrol
Cast
Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin
France, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 110'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

The 54th feature film of auteur Claude Chabrol is his first collaboration with Gérard Depardieu and a
playful, dramatic murder mystery, Chabrol's homage to Georges Simenon. Depardieu plays police
chief Paul Bellamy, who spends his vacation at the family estate of his wife despite her dreams of a
cruise on the Nile. Just as Bellamy longs to get back to work, work comes to him: Noel, a stranger,
shows up demanding his protection because he claims to have caused a man's death with his
mistress. Meanwhile, Bellamy's alcoholic half brother Jacques also arrives. Jobless, gambler, thief
Jacques is Bellamy's opposite, or is he?

Emek: 8 We. 16.00
Emek: 10 Fr. 19.00
City’s: 12 Su. 16.00

BELLS, THREADS AND MIRACLES
Director:
Marianna Economou
Greece-Turkey, 2008
Betacam / Colour / 52'
Turkish-Greek; English & Turkish s.t.

Greek photographer and documentarian Marianna Economou, explores the human need
to believe in miracles, the expressions that it takes and the consequences it creates,
through a phenomenon that takes place at St. George's Monastery on Prinkipo, the
Princes Islands in Istanbul. Every year, on the saint's name day, some 100,000 people,
mostly Muslims visit the Christian monastery to pray for a miracle. They ask for a car, a
house, a baby, a healing… The journeys of people of different religions to the same saint
reveal very crucial, essential human and universal issues. Are miracles possible in our
times? Can Christians and Muslims meet and bond through a common faith?

Beygolu: 6 Mo. 16.00
Beyoglu: 12 Su. 19.00

BIÙTIFUL CAUNTRI
Directors:
Esmeralda Calabria & Andrea D'Ambrosio
Cast:
Raffaele Del Giudice, Mario & Patrizia Gerlando, Sabatino & Mario Cannavacciuolo
Italy, 2008
Betacam / Colour / 73'
Italian; English & Turkish s.t.

2007 Torino Special Mention
2008 Nastro d'Argento (Italy) Silver Ribbon (Best Documentary)
Sheep die from dioxin. Farmers who cultivate land polluted by the nearby dumps. The massacre of a
land. We are in Italy, in the Campania region where there are 1,200 unauthorised toxic waste dumps.
In the background, the Camorra business uses lorries and mechanical diggers instead of pistols.
Deviated entrepreneurial activity and colluded institutions, told by a judge who reveals the
mechanisms of a violent activity that causes more deaths, gradually in time, than any other criminal
phenomenon. Is it possible to live like this in the third millennium?

Beyoglu: 8 We. 19.00
Beyoglu: 10 Fr. 11.00



BLACK DOGS BARKING
KARA KÖPEKLER HAVLARKEN
Directors:
Mehmet Bahadır Er & Maryna Gorbach
Cast:
Cemal Toktaş, Volga Sorgu, Erkan Can
Turkey, 2009
HDCAM / Colour / 88'
Turkish; English s.t.

The debut feature film directed and edited by Ukrainian shorts director Maryna Gorbach and Mehmet
Bahadır Er, known for his award-winning short films Goygoy, Noki Noki, Zilzal, The Earthquake, Hope
and The Heights, had its world premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January 2009. With an
uneasy, dynamic and realistic style, Mehmet Bahadır Er examines the neighbourhood he has lived in
for fifteen years, and also the concepts of urban nomadism, security, unearned income, being a loser,
and life struggle through two restless, unemployed young best buddies, Selim and Çaça, their class
hopping hopes, and slipping by and breaking through the veteran wolves of the city.

Emek: 16 Th. 21.30

BLIND PIG WHO WANTS TO FLY
BABI BUTA YANG INGIN TERBANG
Director:
Edwin
Cast:
Ladya Cheryl, Pong Harjatmo, Carlo Genta
Indonesia, 2008
DigiBeta / Colour / 77'
Indonesian; English & Turkish s.t.

2009 Rotterdam FIPRESCI Prize
Here you will find stories about disoriented identity, hesitation and anxiety, the experience of being
lost, all told with a sense of humour. Those are the feelings of being Chinese in Indonesia. A story
about a father lusting to win a green card lottery. A story about an ex-national badminton champion
whose husband leaves her for a Javanese wife. A story of a boy always pelted with stones because
everybody thinks that he is Chinese. A story about a young girl who believes that firecrackers expel
ghosts. Like pieces of broken, colourful glass, the film follows eight characters in their absurd journey
to fit in society.
Beyoglu: 5 Su. 19.00
Beyoglu: 13 Mo. 19.00
Beyoglu: 17 Fr. 13.30

BLOOD APPEARS **
LA SANGRE BROTA
LE SANG İMPUR
Director:
Pablo Fendrik
Cast:
Arturo Goetz, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Guadalupe Docampo
Argentina-France-Germany, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 100'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Cannes OFAJ Young Critics' Award
2008 Santiago Best Director
Blood really does appear in this harsh and dynamic family drama. Set in the urban underbelly of
Buenos Aires, the story follows Arturo, a cab driver who has to find $2.000 within 24 hours. Arturo's
wife Irene keeps their savings away from Arturo's reach, while Leandro, their younger son, tries to
steal those savings for a profitable drug deal. Isolation, indifference, greed and lack of communication
eventually will have all the members of this disintegrating family confronting each other.

Rexx: 4 Sa. 19.00
Atlas: 5 Su. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 10 Fr. 16.00

BOUND FOR GLORY
Director:
Hal Ashby
Cast:
David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon
USA, 1976
35 mm / Colour / 147'
English; Turkish s.t.

1977 Oscar Best Cinematography; Best Music
1976 USA National Board of Review: Best Actor (D. Carradine)
1977 USA National Society of Film Critics: Best Cinematography
Adapted from the autobiography of the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, this is not only a
wonderful road movie, but it is also a great film documenting a pivotal era of American history. As a
social activist with a passionate empathy for the working class he had laid the foundations of folk
music. Using his own words and music, the film portrays the Great Depression years following Guthrie
as he takes up music and gets involved in union organising, singing about struggle, migrant workers,
children, love, and peace.

Rexx: 5 Su. 21.30
Atlas: 8 We. 16.00

BUICK RIVIERA
Director:
Goran Rusinovic
Cast:
Slavko Stimac, Leon Lucev, Aimee Klein
Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 85'
Croatian-English; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Sarajevo Best Film; Best Actor (S. Stimac & L. Lucev); FIPRESCI Prize
2008 Pula (Croatia) Best Screenplay
Buick Riviera is a low-budget psychological drama by Croatian director Rusinovic that tackles ethnic
and religious conflict, trust and alienation, through two Bosnian refugees of different nationalities,
Hasan and Vuko, who meet by chance in America, one dark, snowy night. They share their life stories,
and spend an unusual 24 hours together. But will freedom be enough to overcome the new Balkan
crisis in the USA?

Atlas: 13 Mo. 16.00
Yeni Ruya: 14 Tu. 19.00
Rexx: 15 We. 21.30
CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS
Director:
Miguel Kohan
Argentina-USA-Brazil, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 90'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

Tango is not a dance. On the Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires, tango is a way of life. Many elderly men
and women of tango still perform. This film portrays some of these exceptional musicians, including
creators of classical tango repertoire, founders of styles and schools, famed representatives from
1940s and 1950s, before Piazzola. Argentine musician Gustavo Santaolalla (Oscar-winning composer
of Brokeback Mountain and Babel) serves as our guide in this musical journey, a "Buenos Aires Social
Club", produced by Walter Salles, as the surviving icons of tango prepare for a live concert: Nelly
Omar (born 1911), Horacio Salgan (born 1916) and Mariano Mores (born 1918).

Yeni Ruya: 4 Sa. 13.30
City’s: 5 Su. 11.00
Atlas: 7 Tu. 11.00

CAPTAIN KEMAL, A COMRADE
Director:
Fotos Lamprinos
Greece-Turkey, 2008
DigiBeta / Colour / 52'
Turkish-Greek; English & Turkish s.t.

A Turk, born in 1915, who, after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) was a devout nationalist and
fanatic enemy of the Greeks, decides in 1947 to visit illegally, the Greek north eastern mountains at
Thrace in order to fight the Greek Civil War on the side of the Greek communists (guerrillas). Today, at
the age of 92, he makes a journey back to Greece where he once fought to visit the battlefields and if
possible, to meet his old comrades. Veteran Greek documentarist Fotos Lamprinos tells the story of
one of the most controversial figures of Turkish politics, and one of the most important Turkish
communists, Mihri Belli.

Beyoglu: 6 Mo. 16.00
Beyoglu: 12 Su. 19.00

CAPTIVE OF THE DESERT *
LA CAPTIVE DU DÉSERT
Director:
Raymond Depardon
Cast:
Sandrine Bonnaire, Dobi Koré, Fadi Taha
France, 1990
35 mm / Colour / 96'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

Depardon's second fiction film is based on a story he covered as a reporter in 1975. The film revolves
around a young French woman who is kidnapped in Chad and held hostage by rebel soldiers in the
desert. The opening shot of the film depicting a caravan of camels, men, women, children traversing
the desert is now iconic. Depardon uniquely conveys the sensations felt in the desert, as well as the
sense of being held hostage to the viewer. This exceptional drama that depends on images and
sounds and almost no dialogue is not judgemental; there are simply captors and captives in the desert
heat.

Atlas: 7 Tu. 13.30
Beyoglu: 17 Fr. 19.00

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Director:
Richard Brooks
Cast:
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
USA, 1958
35 mm / Colour / 108'
English; Turkish s.t.

A seven-category Oscar nominee, a powerful, highly-charged, moving story of a dysfunctional
Southern family with its lies, rivalries, and hypocrisies, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was adapted from
Tennessee Williams' Broadway play. It is memorable not only with Elizabeth Taylor's performance as
the sexually frustrated, sensual, passionate Maggie "the Cat", but also with Paul Newman's compelling
performance as Maggie's alcoholic, impotent, apathetic, and frustrated husband Brick.

Atlas: 4 Sa. 11.00
City’s: 11 Sa. 11.00

CAUGHT IN THE ACT -
DÉLITS FLAGRANTS
Director:
Raymond Depardon
France, 1994
35 mm / Colour / 109'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

1995 Amsterdam Joris Ivens-Best Film
1995 César Best Documentary
1995 Vancouver Best Documentary
Pickpockets, illegal aliens, all in all 14 petty criminals are caught red-handed and taken to the police
station. The suspects' statements are recorded by the deputy public prosecutor who decides if they
should be released or not. This entertaining documentary is a silent witness to the French judiciary
system, bureaucracy, and also to the French society's perception of "the other". Depardon revisited
the courtroom ten years later in 2004 with 10th District Courtof Trial

Atlas: 8 We. 13.30
Beyoglu: 18 Sa. 21.30

CHERRY BLOSSOMS - HANAMI
KIRSCHBLÜTEN - HANAMI
Director:
Doris Dörrie
Cast:
Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Aya Irizuki
Germany, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 126'
German-Japanese; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Bavarian Film Awards: Best Actor, Best Producer
2008 Seattle Audience Award
2008 Cabourg Prize of the Youth Jury
An homage to Ozu's Tokyo Story, a tender, emotionally intense and profoundly moving story of life,
death, love, loss and chasing dreams. The sudden death of his wife, Trudi, plunges the terminally ill
Rudi into profound grief. Realizing how little he knew her and how little he showed her his affection, he
devotes his last weeks to fulfilling her long-cherished dream: to travel to Japan for the cherry blossom
festival.

City’s: 4 Sa. 21.30
Emek: 11 Sa. 11.00
Emek: 17 Fr. 16.00

CHICAGO 10
Director:
Brett Morgen
Cast;:
Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte
USA, 2007
35 mm / Colour and B&W / 110'
English; Turkish s.t.
2008 Chicago Silver Hugo (Best Documentary)
Oscar-nominated documentarist Brett Morgen utilises archival footage and animation to look back at
an American historic milestone: the infamous Chicago 8 trial. Eight anti-war protesters were put on trial
following the week-long riots after the 1968 Democratic National Convention for the election of a
nominee to run for president. The film moves back and forth from the brutal clashes on the streets of
Chicago to the courtroom at an exciting pace. Also "a comment on the current war," the film features a
contemporary soundtrack with artists like Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys and Eminem.

Beyoglu: 10 Fr. 13.30
Beyoglu: 12 Su. 21.30

CHILDREN OF THE OTHER SIDE
BAŞKA SEMTİN ÇOCUKLARI
Director:
Aydın Bulut
Cast:
İsmail Hacıoğlu, Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu, Volga Sorgu
Turkey, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 95'
Turkish; English s.t.

2008 Antalya Behlül Dal Young Talent Special Prize; Best Supporting Actor (V. Sorgu); Best Art
Director
A body is found in the dumpster. A murder committed in Istanbul's Gazi District. The victim's elder
brother, having just completed his military service, is on his way back home. As he takes action to find
the murderer of his brother, he's pushed into another battle full of questions that are hard to answer.
Aydın Bulut's feature debut is a crime drama set in the rundown neighbourhoods of İstanbul.

Emek: 17 Fr. 21.30

CONSCIENCE
VİCDAN
Director:Erden Kıral
Cast:
Nurgül Yeşilçay, Murat Han, Tülin Özen, Nazan Kesal
Turkey, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 85'
Turkish; English s.t.
2008 Antalya Best Actress (N. Yeşilçay)
2008 Turkey Turkish Film Critics' Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress (T. Özen)A
passionate, complex and brutal love story between three people who struggle to eke out an existence
in a provincial Aegean town... Aydanur, not content with her lot in life, is anxious to break out, while
Mahmut is caught between Aydanur and his wife Songül. It's abundantly clear though that Aydanur
has a greater hold on his heart. And the paths of the two eventually cross in the corner of a nightclub.
But are the things that befall us in life the result of the choices we make or a matter of preordained
fate? Conscience portrays a reckoning of conscience through a three-way love affair.

Emek: 15 We. 16.00

CONTROL ALT DELETE
Director:
Cameron Labine
Cast:
Tyler Labine, Sonja Bennett, Alisen Down
Canada, 2008
HD / Colour / 93'
English; Turkish s.t.

It is only days before the millennium. And head programmer Lewis is in charge of finding a solution for
the Y2K bugs. But there's a major setback. He cannot concentrate because he is wildly distracted by
his inescapable sexual desire for state of the art computers. It all starts with his girlfriend leaving him
for his internet porn addiction, but then intensifies with the addition of solitude and the built-up stress
as the New Year approaches. Each upgrade, each better model incites more intense erotic arousals,
and of course further romantic rejections. This debut feature is the most twisted romantic comedy of
the computer age that redefines fetish, desire, addiction, dating and sexual intercourse.

Rexx: 4 Sa. 16.00
Yeni Ruya: 5 Su. 21.30
Atlas: 9 Th. 16.00

CSNY DÉJÀ VU
Director:
Neil Young
Cast:
Bo Alexander, Stephen Colbert, David Crosby

USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 96'
English; Turkish s.t.

A violently political musical documentary, a musical letter for peace and an anti-Bush campaign tour.
Directed by Bernard Shakey (Neil Young's cinematic alter ego), this interesting film follows 60s
counterculture icons Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young forty years after another war returning to their
political activism. Following the release of Neil Young's new album Living with War in 2006, the band
reassembled to tour the country together with journalist Mike Cerre and Iraq and Vietnam war
veterans. The film chronicles the reactions the band receives at the "red states" combining old and
new concert footages with bus interviews and news clips

Beyoglu: 11 Sa. 19.00
Beyoglu: 12 Su. 16.00

DAYDREAMS OF MISS CAZIBE
CAZİBE HANIMIN GÜNDÜZ DÜŞLERİ
Director:
İrfan Tözüm
Cast:
Hale Soygazi, Uğur Polat, Macit Koper, Suna Selen
Turkey, 1992
35 mm / Colour / 105'
Turkish; French s.t.

1993 Ankara Best Film; Best Original Music; Best Art Direction; Best Light Design; Best Supporting
Actress (S. Selen)
1993 İstanbul Special Jury Prize
1993 Adana Best Editing; Best Supporting Actor (M. Koper)
1993 Antalya Best Film; Best Screenplay; Best Original Music
The film's eponymous antagonist Miss Cazibe is played by Hale Soygazi, while actor Macit Koper has
also written the screenplay. Cazibe lives in the same house with her insanely over-protective mother
and alcoholic uncle, who is secretly in love with her. Her only escape from their oppression is through
an imaginary world where she meets with her high school sweetheart Kürşat. However, as her
repressed sexuality surfaces, her dream world starts to rise over reality.

Beyoglu: 16 Th. 16.00
DEPARTURES
OKURİBİTO
Director :
Yojiro Takita
Cast:
Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kimiko Yo, Takashi Sasano
Japan, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 130’
Japanese; English & Turkish s.t.

Oscar Winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Departures also won Best Film accolades at Palm
Springs and Montréal. A delightful and sensitive journey into the heartland of Japan and an
astonishingly beautiful look at a sacred part of Japan's cultural heritage, the film follows cellist Daigo
who moves back into his hometown after his symphony orchestra disbands. He reluctantly accepts a
very traditional job with Sasaki at “Departures”: encoffination of corpses. His life now takes an
unexpected turn as he profoundly follows tradition as a husband, as a human being and as a
“coffiner”.

Emek: 19 Su. 13.30-21.30

DILBER'S EIGHT DAYS
DİLBER'İN SEKİZ GÜNÜ
Director:
Cemal Şan
Cast:
Nesrin Cavadzade, Fırat Tanış, Osman Akça
Turkey, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 106'
Turkish; English st.

2008 Bursa Turkish Film Critics' Assc. SİYAD Award; Best Actor (F. Tanış); Best Actress (N.
Cavadzade)
2008 Erzurum Best Actress (N. Cavadzade)
The second instalment of Cemal Şan's "Soul, Mind & Heart" trilogy that started with Zeynep's Eight
Days, is structured around the "soul". The eponymous hero of the film lives in a poor village in the
southeast of Turkey with her parents and siblings, dreaming to marry Ali, her childhood sweetheart.
However Ali's father has made arrangements for someone else to marry Ali. Defying this arrangement,
Dilber announces that she will marry her first suitor. A man approaches the village, limping. He is
Mehmet, who has heard that a young woman in the village will marry her first suitor.

Beyoglu: 17 Fr. 11.00

DISGRACE
Director:
Steve Jacobs
Cast:
John Malkovich, Jessica Haines, Eriq Ebouaney
Australia-South Africa, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 120'
English-Xhosa-Afrikaans-Zulu; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Toronto FIPRESCI Prize
Adapted from Nobel-prize winner J.M. Coetzee's 1999 novel that presents an unflinching look at the
consequences of the intense change South Africa goes through, Disgrace is the story of a South
African university professor who loses everything, his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, dreams
and even his daughter's well-being and safety. Professor David Lurie's life falls apart after he has an
affair with one of her students, and thus has to resign from Cape Town University. He escapes to his
daughter's farm where he finds some peace, but it's a dangerous world and soon they are victims of a
vicious attack.
Emek: 15 We. 19.00
Yeni Ruya 16 Th. 11.00
City’s 18 Sa. 19.00

DISTANCE
DISTANZ
Director:
Thomas Sieben
Cast:
Ken Duken, Franziska Weisz, Josef Heynert
Germany, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 84'
German; English & Turkish s.t.

Debuting at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival in February, Distance tells both an existential story of
violence and also the story of a difficult love. Living in seclusion from the rest of the world, Daniel
works as a gardener. A rather inconspicuous young man, who regularly breaks out of his daily routine
and commits indiscriminate acts of violence. When he gets to know Jana, a hopeless young woman
searching for human warmth, a tentative relationship develops between them, but sparks fly in the
wrong direction. What presents the gravest danger: the beginning of love, or the dark side surfacing?

Rexx: 8 We. 11.00
Atlas: 11 Sa. 21.30
Atlas: 13 Mo. 11.00

DOG EAT DOG
PERRO COME PERRO
Director:
Carlos Moreno
Cast:
Óscar Borda, Blas Jaramillo, Marlon Moreno
Colombia, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 106'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Colombian Film Awards: Best Director; Best Actor; Best Supporting Actor; Best Photography;
Best Editing
2008 Huelva (Spain) Best Screenplay
The first Colombian drama to premiere at Sundance ever and Colombia's Oscar nominee, this action-
packed black comedy follows two hitmen, Eusebio and Victor, whose paths cross after they both break
the code of the underground. The debut feature of music video veteran Carlos Moreno, who co-
scripted, directed and edited it, depicts a brutal universe where gangsters are vicious, money changes
hands fast, voodoo works and violence is natural.

Atlas: 4 Sa. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 9 Th. 16.00
Rexx: 10 Fr. 19.00

EASY VIRTUE
Director:
Stephan Elliott
Cast:
Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Barnes
UK, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 96'
English; Turkish s.t.

This star-studded bubbly comedy by the director of The Adventures of Priscilla comes after a ten year
break. Easy Virtue's main characters are the sexy and glamorous American Larita, John, heir to the
fortune of an aristocratic British family, and the ultra traditional Veronica, John's mother. John brings
Larita to his family home in England after they impetuously ¬ get married. However, the cold-hearted
Veronica has an instant allergic reaction to Larita despite all her efforts to fit in. A battle of wits ensues
where Larita fights to save her marriage and Veronica to keep her status, image and power.

Emek: 4 Sa. 11.00
City’s: 5 Su. 16.00
Emek: 6 Mo. 16.00



ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLOND HAIR GIRL**
Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loira
Director :
Manoel de Oliveira
Cast:
Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Diogo Dória
Portugal-France-Spain, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 64'
Portuguese; English & Turkish s.t.

The oldest major director active today, Manoel de Oliveira turned 100 just weeks before completing
his latest feature film in December 2008, which premiered at Berlin Film Festival in February 2009. De
Oliveira's grandson Ricardo Trêpa plays Macario, who spends an entire train journey telling the
misfortunes of his love life to a woman he does not know. Macario, who works as an accountant for
his uncle Francisco in Lisbon, falls for the "blond girl" of the title who lives across the house. However,
opposing the match, his uncle throws him out of the house. Macario goes to Cabo Verde to make a
fortune and get his uncle's approval.

Beyoglu: 13 Mo. 13.30
Beyoglu: 15 We. 21.30

ELDORADO **
Director:
Bouli Lanners
Cast:
Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde, Philippe Nahon
Belgium-France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 85'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Cannes Director's Fortnight FIPRESCI Prize; Prix Regards Jeune; Label Europa Cinemas
Belgium's nominee for the 2009 Oscars, Eldorado is an absurdist comedy drama that was inspired by
a true event. The film centres on Yvan, a fortysomething quick-tempered dealer in vintage cars
(played by the director Bouli Lanners), who catches young Elie burgling him. Instead of beating him
up, he becomes strangely attached to him and agrees to drive him home to his parents in his old
Chevrolet. So begins the bizarre roadtrip of two loner misfits through Wallonia, a region filled with
improbable characters, spectacular as it is crazy.

Rex:x: 10 Fr. 11.00
Emek: 11 Sa. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 18 Sa. 11.00


EVERLASTING MOMENTS
Director:
Jan Troell
Cast:
Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
Denmark-Finland-Norway-Sweden, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 125'
Swedish; English & Turkish s.t.

Sweden's entry for the 2009 Oscars, Jan Troell's first film in seven years is another lyrical film,
encompassing socialist, evangelical movements to industrialisation and urbanisation, examining
cultural shifts through the history of one family, not through a great man on a horse, but through a
housewife. In Sweden in the early 1900s, the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a
lottery, and decides to keep it – a decision which alters her whole life. The camera enables Maria to
see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat alcoholic husband, and
inspiration to her daughter who narrates the story.

Rexx: 4 Sa. 13.30
Emek: 8 We. 19.00
Emek: 9 Th. 13.30

EVERYBODY DIES BUT ME
VSE UMRUT, A YA OSTANUS
Director:
Valeria Gai Germanika
Cast:
Polina Philonenko, Olga Shuvalova, Agnia Kuznetsova
Russia, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 80'
Russian; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 2morrow (Moscow) Best Acting
2008 Munich Cinevision Award
2008 Cannes Camera d'Or Special Mention
Being an adolescent is hard, even more so for three 14-year-old girls, Katya, Vika and Zhanna, who
live in a bleak suburb outside Moscow. Katya runs away from home to avoid further beating by her
father, Zhanna attempts suicide and fails, Vika is bullied in the girls bathroom. The only good thing in
their lives is their friendship which eventually gets tested when Katya insults a teacher. Zhanna and
Vika will either stand by her, or leave her behind to party on at the school dance.

City’s 4 Sa. 19.00
Atlas: 5 Su. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 8 We. 13.30


EXAMINED LIFE
Director:
Astra Taylor
Canada, 2008
DigiBeta / Colour / 87'
English; Turkish s.t.

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Examined Life begins with this quote from Socrates, pulls
philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Influential
thinkers of our times such as Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah,
Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, and Judith Butler discuss various issues on a series
of unique excursions: ethics of consumption at Fifth Avenue, jazz and blues while driving through
Manhattan, ecology at a garbage dump… In Examined Life, Astra Taylor, also the director of Zizek!,
reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us.

Beyoglu: 9 Th. 16.00
Beyoglu: 11 Sa. 11.00

FEAR ME NOT
DEN DU FRYGTER
Director :
Kristian Levring
Cast:
Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen, Emma Sehsted Høeg
Denmark, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 95'
Danish; English & Turkish s.t.

Is evil inherent in all of us, suppressed by our egos, surfacing when induced, or is it only acquired?
Written by Anders Thomas Jensen, the director of Adam's Apples and The Green Butchers, this
psychological thriller chronicles the transformation of Michael, a middle-aged family father who quits
his job and signs up the trials of a new anti-depressant. The pills turn out to have serious side effects,
and the trials are abandoned. But Michael refuses to abandon his new-found sense of calm, self
control, and life perspective the pills provide, and continues the experiment on his own.

Yeni Ruya: 17 Fr. 16.00
City’s:18 Sa. 21.30
Atlas: 19 Su. 21.30

FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING
Director :
Kari Skogland
Cast:
Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers
UK-Canada, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 118'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Vancouver Best Film
Jim Sturgess, who made his breakthrough as Jude in Across the Universe, is opposite Ben Kingsley in
this political thriller loosely based on the autobiography of Martin McGartland, one of the most
controversial figures of "The Troubles", three decades of violence in Northern Ireland, who is still in the
hiding today. The film follows McGartland in his youth days in west Belfast in 1987 to being recruited
by a British agent to spy on the IRA until 1991. As he works his way up on both sides, he gets far
deeper than he can manage. The IRA is ruthless in retribution, if he's exposed, he will be a "dead man
walking".

Emek: 6 Mo. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 9 Th. 19.00
City’s: 12 Su. 19.00

FIRAAQ
Director:
Nandita Das
Cast:
Naseeruddin Shah, Shahana Goswami, Deepti Naval, Nowaz
India, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 101'
English-Hindi-Urdu; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Selanik Transcendence Award
2008 Dubai Best Editor
Set one month after a carnage that took place in Gujarat, India in 2002, Firaaq is well-known actress
Nandita Das' directorial debut, and follows the emotional journeys of multiple characters over a period
of 24 hours: the housewife Arati, feeling guilty for not helping the Muslim women begging for
sanctuary, takes in an orphaned Muslim boy. Khan Saheb is a Muslim musician living in a Hindu
neighbourhood. Muneera returns after the riots to find her home ransacked. Married to a Hindu wife,
Sameer is torn between fleeing and staying

Atlas: 15 We. 16.00
Yeni Ruya: 17 Fr. 19.00
FLAME & CITRON
FLAMMEN & CITRONEN
Director:
Ole Christian Madsen
Cast:
Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade
Denmark-Germany, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 130'
Danish-German; English & Turkish s.t.

Two heroes, two resistance fighters: Flame and Citron. They are key assassins of the Danish
Resistance during World War II, eliminating dozens of collaborators, sympathisers and eventually Nazi
officers. They spare no one, trust no one, especially beautiful women, and everything becomes
questionable as the body count rises. Based on true events, the latest film from the director of Prague
is a spy noir film with a graphic novel aesthetic full of plots, double-crosses, enigmatic villains, and
violence.

Rexx: 9 Th. 16.00
Yeni Ruya: 12 Su. 11.00
Emek: 18 Sa. 13.30

FOREIGNERS
FORASTERS
Director:
Ventura Pons
Cast:
Anna Lizaran, Joan Pera, Joan Borràs

Spain, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 105'
Catalan; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Spain Gaudi Awards: Best Actress (A. Lizaran)
The most acclaimed Catalan filmmaker Ventura Pons' latest work is his third adaptation from Sergi
Belbel's plays, the first two being his debut Caresses and To Die (or Not). Foreigners tells the story of
a family that goes through two traumatic events: the loss of a family member, and forty years later, the
arrival of new neighbours. Two events that disrupt the family's alleged harmony, their social setting,
their fragile family ties… This is the passage of time, the meaning of existence, the fear and distrust of
the unknown, the outsider, the foreigner… The foreigners are ourselves.

Yeni Ruya: 16 Th. 16.00
Atlas: 17 Fr. 19.00
City’s: 19 Su. 13.30

FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA**
CZTERY NOCE Z ANNA
QUATRE NUİTS AVEC ANNA
Director :
Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast:
Kinga Preis, Artur Steranko, Jerzy Fedorowicz
Poland-France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 87'
Polish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Poland Best Sound; Best Production Design
The first film in 17 years from the great Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, is a subtle and complex tale
of "peeping tom" passion set in a small, provincial town in Poland where ex-con Leon works at the
hospital crematory. He often spies on Anna, a nurse, by day and peeps at her window by night. But he
wants more. He sneaks into her room through the window and spends the night sitting at her bed. This
habit soon becomes an obsession and step by step, he begins to influence her life.

Rexx: 13 Mo. 19.00
Emek: 15 We. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 16 Th. 21.30

FROM BLACK GOLD TO GOLDEN MICROPHONE
KARA ALTINDAN ALTIN MİKROFONA
Director:
Metin Avdaç
Turkey, 2009
Betacam / Colour / 68'
Turkish; English s.t.

When oil was found in 1940 at the Raman Mountain in the İluh Village at Beşiri, Siirt in southern
Turkey, the village in no time grew rapidly and became a town called Batman. The Turkish Petroleum
Corporation TPAO builds its first refinery and rapidly opens its social facilities. In 1963, it turns out that
the facilities need an orchestra and shortly this is also founded with professional musicians. Hürriyet
Daily Newspaper organises the first of its Golden Microphone Competition in 1965, in 1966 and in
1967, the Batman Orchestra is among the finalists in this competition. Finally in 1968, the orchestra
wins the first prize. This band which was celebrated all over the country forty years ago is now
forgotten. The Batman in the 1960s and the 1970s was quite different.

Pera: 17 Fr. 16.00

GASOLINE
GASOLINA
Director: Julio Hernández Cordón
Cast:Francisco Jácome, Carlos Dardón, Gabriel Armas
Guatemala, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 75'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2007 San Sebastian Films in Progress Award
2008 San Sebastian Latin Horizons Award
Gasolina is a film from Guatemala, a country with neither a cinema law nor a film institute. The debut
feature of shorts director Julio Hernández tells the story of three teenagers, Gerardo, Nano and
Raymundo, who spend their spare time stealing gas to go joyriding. They don't have a destination;
they just want to have fun. Each stop is a step closer to real life that puts their friendship to test
against betrayal, deception, and solidarity.

Rexx: 5 Su. 16.00
Atlas: 7 Tu. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 10 Fr. 11.00
GOODBYE SOLO
Director:
Ramin Bahrani
Cast:
Souléymane Sy Savané, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo
USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 91'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Venice FIPRESCI Prize
The third feature film from Ramin Bahrani following Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, once more tackles
America's immigrant underclass, however this time with a greater sense of lyricism, and not set in the
crowded urban environment. Souléymané, aka Solo, a kind-hearted taxi driver in a small North
Carolina town, is hired by William, a 70-year-old white southerner, to drive him to a mountaintop from
which William plans to jump to his death in two weeks. But Solo decides to dissuade William by
becoming his driver, and this odd couple begins an unexpected friendship.

Atlas: 4 Sa. 19.00
Rexx: 6 Mo. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 7 Tu. 13.30

HAIR HIGH
Director :Bill Plympton
Cast:Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Silverman, Eric Gilliland
USA, 2005
35 mm / Colour / 78'
English; Turkish s.t.

Produced, directed and financed by Plympton and featuring an amazing cast of voices, Hair High is
the legend of Spud and Cherry, a teenage couple, murdered on prom night, who return as undead
skeletons one year later for revenge. Their love is stronger than death, their love is eternal. Inspired by
the ultra-romantic style of the music and movies of the 50s, the film starts as a romantic love-triangle
comedy, then adds a zombie-horror twist. The animation process took approximately 30,000 drawings
over a 1-year period.

Emek: 9 Th. 11.00
Rexx: 14 Tu. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 19 Su. 13.30
HEAVEN ON EARTH
Director:
Deepa Mehta
Cas:
Preity Zinta, Balinder Johal, Vansh Bhardwaj, Yanna McIntosh
Canada, 2008
35 mm / Colour and B&W / 106'
Punjabi-English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Chicago Best Actress (P. Zinta)
2008 Dubai Best Screenplay
An arranged marriage, the burden of tradition, domestic abuse, isolation, disappointment… Chand has
to face all this in Deepa Mehta's latest feature film that explores desperation beyond class, ethnicity or
gender. Chand arrives in Ontario to meet her new husband, Rocky. Everything is new to her,
everything is unfamiliar and exciting. But soon optimism fades away as familial obligations crush
Rocky, who takes it out from Chand. Trapped in a world she cannot comprehend, and unable to
please her new family, Chand resorts to magic, and the lines between fantasy and reality converge.

Atlas: 14 Tu. 19.00
Rexx: 16 Th. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 17 Fr. 11.00

HEAVEN'S HEART
HIMLENS HJÄRTA
Director:
Simon Staho
Cast:
Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Endre, Maria Lundqvist, Jakob Eklund
Sweden-Denmark, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 95'
Swedish; English & Turkish s.t.

Is marriage a battleground? Is it a wall against solitude? What is more important, passion or security?
In Simon Staho's latest film following Daisy Diamond, two bourgeois Swedish couples who have been
happily married for twenty years search for answers to these questions over a series of kitchen
conversations, living room confessions, bedroom scenes and tense dinners. Recalling Bergman's
Scenes from a Marriage and Liv Ullman's Faithless, their discussion about adultery opens the gates to
lies, hypocrisy and finally doom.
Atlas: 6 Mo. 21.30
Emek: 8 We. 13.30
Rexx: 9 Th. 21.30

HOME
Director :
Ursula Meier
Cast:
Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adélaïde Leroux
Switzerland-France-Belgium, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 95'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Mar del Plata Best Actress (I. Huppert); Argentinean Photography Authors Association
2008 Reykjavik FIPRESCI Prize
2008 Tübingen-Stuttgart Grand Prize; German Critics' Award; Youth Award
Documentarist Ursula Meier's debut feature is a "road movie in reverse, a contemporary family tale; it
is about isolation turning into madness." An empty highway extends out as far as the eye can see in
the middle of a quiet and barren landscape. Just a few meters away, stands a lonely house with a little
garden in where lives a family: a father, a mother and their three children. Then, unexpectedly, the
highway opens… The steady flow of cars, the noise, disrupts the harmony, the peaceful existence of
this modern day Robinson family.

Yeni Ruya: 4 Sa. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 6 Mo. 16.00
Rexx: 12 Su. 11.00

HOOKED **
PESCUIT SPORTIV
PİCNİC
Director:
Adrian Sitaru
Cast:
Adrian Titienu, Ioanna Flora, Maria Dinulescu
Romania-France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 84'
Romanian; English & Turkish s.t.

2009 Palm Springs New Voices New Visions Jury Award
The debut feature of a young Romanian director, Hooked is not only an engaging and thrilling
character study, but also an exercise in style - the entire film is shot in alternating POVs of the
characters. On a fishing trip to the country, Mihai and his married lover Miha accidentally hit the
prostitute Ana with their car. They are convinced she is dead, but as they try to decide what to do with
the body, Ana shockingly comes round, seemingly unaware of what's happened. But how much does
she really know, and what does she want to gain from the situation?

Rexx: 10 Fr. 13.30
Atlas:15 We. 11.00
YR 18 Sa. 19.00

HOW ARE YOU?
KAKO Sİ?
Director :
Özlem Akovalıgil
Cast:
Semahat Goruşanin, Mesut Akusta, Deniz Çakır, Kemal Okur
Turkey, 2009
HD / Colour / 107'
Turkish-Bosnian-German-English; English s.t.

Semahat who has emigrated to İstanbul from Sarajevo many years ago, decides to travel back to her
homeland in spite of her age. She is joined by Fatih who would like to film her voyage, and Fatih's
friend Ufuk. When they arrive in Sarajevo, Semahat finds her 82-year-old cousin Muhammed, and
they all face the dreadful reality of the last war. Born and raised in Germany, Selim and his girlfriend
Lidya hit the road to visit Selim's family in Germany. On the way they witness a murder, their car is
taken away from them, they take shelter in a village and they themselves in the middle of an ethnic
conflagration. The past and expectations from the future are meaningless for people who try to
survive. There is a place that separates people, and they are right there.

Beyoglu: 14 Tu. 19.00

I MARRIED A STRANGE PERSON!
Director:
Bill Plympton
Cast:
Charis Michelsen, Tom Larson, Richard Spore
USA, 1997
35 mm / Colour / 75'
English; Turkish s.t.

1998 Annecy Filmi Best Animated Film
It's Akira with humour, Road Runner with humans, an animated Pulp Fiction. It's a heart-warming story
of a newlywed couple on their wedding night. When two copulating birds crash into his satellite dish,
Grant develops godlike powers: whatever he thinks of, comes to life. His powers include the ability to
transform his bride Kerry into other "stuff", making the house join him when he's making love, and
being mean to his mother-in-law. But Smile Corp. sends a paramilitary unit to capture Grant in order to
control worldwide media, and Kerry cannot cope with these supernatural powers. Grant is not the
normal person she married with.

Emek: 7 Tu. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 12 Su. 13.30
Rexx: 16 Th. 13.30

IDIOTS AND ANGELS
Director:
Bill Plympton
USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 78'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Ojai, Filmi Best Animated Film
2008 Buenos Aires Best Director
2008 Portugal Cinanima Animated Film Festival: Best Animated Film
Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out at his local bar, berating the other
patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back. The wings make him
do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries to rid himself of the good wings, but
eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune. Bill
Plympton structured the film as to be "the exact opposite of Hair High," monochromatic and more
limited in animation, "something like Svankmajer might make, or David Lynch, if he made animation,
very dark and surreal."

City’s 5 Su. 21.30
Eemek: 10 Fr. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 18 Sa. 13.30


IL DIVO *
Director:
Paolo Sorrentino
Cast:
Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti
Italy-France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 118'
Italian; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Cannes Jury Prize
One of the most important Italian politicians of the last fifty years, Giulio Andreotti's corrupt career is
the subject of this biopic, but it is also an incisive and unconventionally styled portrait of Italian politics
in general. Andreotti is a seven-time Prime Minister and senator for life, and his connections with big
business, Vatican and crime syndicates eventually put him under the spotlight. With humour, Fight
Club-like camerawork, frenetic editing and music, Il Divo spans over 40 years is definitely not the kind
of biopic that one would expect.

Emek: 8 We. 21.30
Atlas: 9 Th. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 11 Sa. 19.00

I'M GOING TO EXPLODE
VOY A EXPLOTAR
Director :
Gerardo Naranjo
Cast:
Maria Deschamps, Juan Pablo De Santiago, Daniel Gimenez-Cacho
Mexico, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 106'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Selanik Thessaloniki FIPRESCI Prize
"An angst against stillness", and a vibrant, hormone-raged story executive produced by Gael García
Bernal and Diego Luna, this film traces the frenetic love story of two 15-year-olds. Roman is the
reckless, restless, misfit son of a corrupt politician, a privileged kid with no responsibility, and the
offbeat Maru is a middle-class girl. They instantly fall in love, pretend to escape, but in fact hide on the
roof of Roman's father's house. Just like Bonnie and Clyde, what first starts as a rebellious adventure
transforms into tragedy.

City’s: 5 Su. 13.30
Yeni Ruya: 6 Mo. 11.00
Atlas: 7 Tu. 21.30

IN BERLIN
Directors:
Michael Ballhaus & Ciro Cappellari
Cast:
Jochen Arbeit, Blixa Bargeld, Ercan Ergin
Germany, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 115'
German-Turkish-English; English & Turkish s.t.

Berlin-born legendary Hollywood cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who was the Golden Tulip Jury
president in 2008, together with Argentine co-director and cinematographer Ciro Cappellari trace the
changes that have taken place in Berlin since the fall of the Berlin Wall back in 1989. "Berlin is vibrant
and in movement. It is constantly changing," Ballhaus says, and throughout the film, local celebrities
and the general public help him capture a unique insight into the lives of local Berliners provide a point
of view on the city. More than a mere documentary, this is a love letter to a fascinating international
metropolis and its people.

Beyoglu: 7 Tu. 13.30
Beyoglu: 8 We. 21.30
IN THE ELECTRIC MIST**
DANS LA BRUME ELECTRİQUE
Director:
Bertrand Tavernier
Cast:
Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard
USA-France, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 117'
English; Turkish s.t.

A mystery thriller set in New Orleans with a stellar cast, adapted from James Lee Burke by one of the
most acclaimed French directors. Competing for the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival in February,
In the Electric Mist deals with murder, corruption, racism and ghosts. Burke's detective hero Dave
Robicheaux, while investigating a series of grisly murders set four decades apart, finds a possible link
to New Orleans mobster "Baby Feet" Balboni who is currently producing a Hollywood film. Things get
stranger when Robicheaux begins seeing the ghost of a Confederate general, and searches for more
clues with his help, as long-dead secrets are revealed, the mystery becomes more and more
complicated.

Emek: 6 Mo. 13.30
City’s: 11 Sa. 16.00
Emek: 19 Su. 19.00

IN THE SHADOW OF THE QUAKE
DEPREMİN GÖLGESİNDE
Directors:
Sibel Bilgin & Floor Kooij
The Netherlands-Turkey, 2009
DigiBeta / Colour / 60'
Turkish; English s.t.

A documentary about the ten years after the Marmara Earthquake. This is a follow up to directors
Kooij and Bilgin's 1999 documentary My Broken Town. The main focus of this film is to explore what
happened to the families and people during these 10 years. The "Broken Town" is of course not
broken anymore. The villages, towns, houses and the landscape have recovered themselves quite
rapidly. But the broken feelings are still there. The life came back, yet their own life with their own
memories seem to be still buried in their hearts and minds, as if they are watching their own routine
lives from a distance. The shadow of the quake is dimming the light.

Pera: 15 We. 19.00

INKILAP AND HER NINE SISTERS
İNKILAP VE 9 KARDEŞ
Director:
Halil Şafak Bakkalbaşıoğlu
Turkey, 2008
DVD / Colour / 76'
Turkish; English s.t.

The latest documentary project from director Halil Şafak Bakkalbaşıoğlu tells the adventure of the
steamboats which used to swim in the blue waters of the Bosphorus between 1960 and 2004. The last
steamboats… The stories of the boats, starting with the first, İnkılap, followed by Ali İhsan Kalmaz,
Turan Emeksiz, Harbiye, Kanlıca, Kuzguncuk, Anadolu Kavağı, Pendik, Ataköy, and the stories of the
cabin boys and the captains, and the passengers, who used to say "these ships were like our
homeland."

Pera: 18 Sa. 13.30

INTI ILLIMANI, WHERE THE CLOUDS SING
INTI ILLIMANI, DOVE CANTANO LE NUVOLE
Directors:
Francesco Cordio & Paolo Pagnoncelli
Cast:
Daniele Silvestri, Jorge Coulon, Marcelo Coulon
Italy, 2008
Betacam / Colour / 79'
Italian-Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

A wild ride through Latin music, a whirlwind of Andean folk tunes, tangos from Argentina, Brazilian
sambas… Chilean band Inti-Illimani has, since forty years, been the foremost representative of the
cancion"movement that combined traditional Latin American folk music and popular rock music, and
also a symbol of the Chilean opposition during their exile since 1973. Visiting themes of memory and
cultural roots, this film relives the history of the Inti-Illimani through their live music performances,
interviews of the band members and historic figures, including a unique musical encounter with Italy's
famous singer-composer, Daniele Silvestri

Beyoglu: 6 Mo. 21.30
Beyoglu: 9 Th. 11.00

IT'S HARD BEING LOVED BY JERKS*
C'EST DUR D'ÊTRE AIMÉ PAR DES CONS
Director:
Daniel Leconte
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 118'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

The film takes its title from a cartoon published in the Charlie Hebdo, the popular satirical French
weekly, depicting Prophet Mohammad with his head in his hands, saying "It's tough to be loved by
jerks" referring to fundamentalists. This cartoon was published in the paper along with the infamous
twelve Danish cartoons, in response to the international Muslim reaction. But then, Philippe Val, the
editor of Charlie Hebdo was cited to court by the Great Mosque of Paris, the World Muslim League
and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France. This film covers this extraordinary trial with all its
key participants: journalists, lawyers, witnesses, prosecutors, politicians and Muslim community
leaders

Beyoglu: 8 We. 11.00
Beyoglu: 11 Sa. 16.00

JOHNNY MAD DOG**
Director:
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Cast:
Christophe Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh
France-Liberia-Belgium, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 95'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Cannes Prize of Hope
2008 Deauville Best French Script
2008 Moscow Best Film
Africa today. Johnny, 15, a child-soldier, armed to the hilt, is fuelled by drugs and inhabited by the mad
dog he dreams of becoming. With his teenage commando band "The Death Dealers", he robs,
dances, slays everything in his path. Laokolé, 13, strives to flee her occupied city. As Johnny's killing
troop advances, Laokolé flees… With a cast of fifteen real former child soldiers, this is a thrillingly fast,
brutally savage, visually dazzling portrait of a people who are trying to save their humanity.

Atlas: 15 We. 19.00
Emek: 16 Th. 13.30
Rexx: 18 Sa. 19.00

JOURNEY TO THE MOON
AYA SEYAHAT
Director :
Kutluğ Ataman
Cast:
Metin Alagaş, Gözde Aran, Ahmet Aslan
Turkey, 2009
HD / Colour / 79'
Turkish; English s.t.

1957. A remote village in Erzincan province, Eastern Turkey. The quest of four villagers to travel to the
moon is documented with the use of found black-and-white photos and the aid of a local narrator. A
wide range of established Turkish intellectuals offer their views of the events that took place in 1957.
The resulting film curiously becomes an in-depth study of contemporary Turkish culture, rather than an
historical documentary. The latest work of Kutluğ Ataman, who is presiding over the Jury of the
National Competition Jury includes interviews with Alim Rüstem Aslan, Murat Belge, Seçkin Dindar,
Sibel Eraslan, Nilüfer Göle, Mahir Kaynak, Etyen Mahçupyan, Turgay Oğur, Atila Özgüç, Özge
Samancı, Bülent Somay, (Panter) Emel Yıldız.

Beyoglu: 18 Sa. 13.30

KNOT
DÜĞÜM
Director:
Uygar Asan
Cast:
Sezgin Cengiz, Ayşegül Akbulut, Emre Saka, Murat Vanlı
Turkey, 2009
HD / Colour / 71'
Turkish; English s.t.

Expanding his follower base with Winter Garden, the first ever Turkish feature-length film shot and
screened digitally, and Shell that followed it, Uygar Asan meditates on a theme of "knot" in his third
feature-length digital film. Knot's world premiere will be made at the festival. What is it that
Lautréamont means when saying "And so it continues, for all the hours of eternity"? What is
concerning the "knot" in Ece Ayhan's poetry? What is it that goes wrong in that concealed world of
families? Truly, where does one start to undo a "knot"?

Beyoglu: 13 Mo. 21.30

L.I.F.E.G.U.A.R.D.
I.S.T.A.N.B.U.L. (REDUX) / CANKURTARAN/İSTANBUL (REDUX)
Director:
Bozkurt Palanduz
Cast:
Ecevit Üresin, Esra Banguoğlu, Serkan Öz
Turkey, 2009
DVD / Colour / 92'
Turkish; English s.t.

Four films of different genres start at different stages of their dramatic development, one at the climax,
one at rising action, one in falling action and one at the inciting moment and/or the so-called "moment
of last suspense". Yet all these quite different four stories will come to one single real common
conclusion only to be perceived through some extrasensory activities of the pre-cognitive storytelling
style similar to the "Book of Revelations".

Beyoglu: 14 Tu. 16.00
LA RABIA
Director:
Albertina Carri
Cast:
Analía Couceyro, Javier Lorenzo, Victor Hugo Carrizo
Argentina, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 83'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Transylvania FIPRESCI Prize
The power and passion of a Greek tragedy in the endless vastness of Argentine pampas, La Rabia is
a disturbing study of adultery, emotional isolation and the brutality of rural life told through the eyes of
two children: the mute girl Nati and her best friend Ladeado. Nati's father Poldo breaks all contact with
Ladeado's father Pichon, but he does not know that his wife is having a passionate affair with Pichon.
Nati knows what is going on, and when Poldo finds drawings made by his daughter depicting a naked
man, all he has in mind is revenge. The terrifying climax is an explosion of rage that engulfs everyone

Atlas: 5 Su. 21.30
Yeni Ruya 9 Th. 13.30
Rexx: 11 Sa. 19.00

LAKE TAHOE
Director:
Fernando Eimbcke
Cast:
Diego Cataño, Héctor Herrera, Daniela Valentine
Mexico, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 85'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Berlin Alfred Bauer Prize; FIPRESCI Prize
2008 Guadalajara Best Director
Lake Tahoe is not shot near Lake Tahoe, as Mexican director Eimbcke's debut Duck Season had no
ducks in it. It's set on the Yucatan peninsula, in a port town. Over 24 hours, we come to know its weird
inhabitants intimately after a young man, Juan, crashes his car into a pole and wanders around trying
to fix it. He encounters with aging mechanic Don and his dog, teenage mother Lucia and martial-arts
fanatic David, who run an auto parts store. This beautiful film tackles big teenage problems with a low-
budget, and minimal action.

Rexx: 14 Tu. 16.00
Atlas: 18 Sa. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 19 Su. 11.00

LAST BIRDS
SON KUŞLAR
Director:
Erdoğan Tokatlı
Cast:
Selma Güneri, Ediz Hun, Tijen Par
Turkey, 1965
Betacam / B&W / 90'
Turkish

1966 Antalya Best Actress (S. Güneri)
Made into a screenplay by Ayşe Şasa from her own short story, Last Birds is the directorial debut of
Erdoğan Tokatlı, who employs a plain, simple and unassuming narrative style. According to Agâh
Özgüç, it is "a completely poetic cinema," and according to Tokatlı, it is "a love story that I choose to
describe as 'romantic reality.'" A student at a girls' high school, Ayşe meets Oğuz, an engineer who
works in Anatolia. They begin a passionate love affair, but Ayşe's family is too immersed in their own
desires too care for her. They get Ayşe's older sister Nesrin married, but when she does not meet their
demands, they want to get Ayşe married. Will Ayşe be corrupted as they are?

Beyoglu: 13 Mo. 11.00



LAST STOP 174
ÚLTIMA PARADA 174
Director:
Bruno Barreto
Cast:
Michel Gomes, Cris Vianna, Marcello Melo Jr.
Brazil, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 110'
Portuguese; English & Turkish s.t.

Written by the screenwriter of City of God and The Elite Squad, Brazil's 2009 Oscar submission
presents the backdrop of a real-life bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro told through the eyes of a young
man in search of the affection of a mother, and a mother trying to locate her son. In the slums of Rio,
Marisa is obsessed with finding her son Alessandro who was snatched away from her when he was a
baby. Another boy, Sandro, flees to the big city after his mother is murdered to join a gang of street
kids. In a vicious society oblivious to their plight, Sandro, Alessandro and Marisa's paths will tragically
intersect

Atlas: 16 Th. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 17 Fr. 13.30
Rexx: 18 Sa. 11.00

LET IT RAIN *
PARLEZ-MOI DE LA PLUIE
Director:
Agnès Jaoui
Cast:
Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 110'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

South of France is the setting for this battle-of-the-sexes satirical comedy about a self-absorbed
feminist novelist (played by director Jaoui). Deciding to try politics, Agathe returns to her hometown
after her mother passes away. While in town, she agrees to be interviewed for a documentary made
by the Algerian housekeeper Karim and Michel (played by scriptwriter Bacri), who is having an affair
with Agathe's sister Florence. Through the interactions of these characters, the film explores human
relations, and themes such as sexual politics, family, adultery, feminism, film-making, and politics.

Atlas: 5 Su. 16.00
Rexx: 6 Mo. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 8 We. 16.00

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
LÅT DEN RÄTTE KOMMA IN
Director:
Tomas Alfredson
Cast:
Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
Sweden, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 114'
Swedish; English & Turkish s.t.
2008 European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation: Golden Méliès (Best European Fantasy Film),
Tribeca Best Narrative Feature
2008 Copenhagen (NATFilm) Critics Award
2008 Nordic Film Award; Best Cinematography
The goriest of sweet coming-of-age films, the sweetest of gore films. This film is a disturbing, darkly
atmospheric and tender romantic horror fantasy that weaves adolescence, marginalisation and loyalty
through the unusual and unique friendship of the 12-year-old Oskar and his mysterious neighbour Eli,
a vampire, frozen forever in a 12-year-old body

Emek: 4 Sa. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 5 Su. 11.00
Rexx: 6 Mo. 16.00

LION'S DEN
LEONERA
Director:
Pablo Trapero
Cast:
Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Rodrigo Santoro
Argentina-South Korea-Brazil, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 113'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Lima Best Screenplay; Best Cinematography; Best Actress (M. Gusman)
2009 Palm Springs Best Actress (M. Gusman)
In his fifth feature film, Argentine director Pablo Trapero tackles motherhood, solitude, love,
confinement and hope in a women's prison, through the eyes of Julia, a woman sentenced for murder,
and the child she brought up in jail. Julia is slow to adapt to the jail system, but she will find two fellow
inmates in a circle of women: Marta, who has raised two children inside, and Sofia, Julia's own
mother. Marta becomes her guide and counsellor, while Sofia, her opponent. Who will eventually
determine the fate of her child?

Emek: 9 Th. 16.00
Emek: 11 Sa. 16.00
Rexx: 12 Su. 21.30

LIVERPOOL**
Director :
Lisandro Alonso
Cast:
Juan Fernandez, Giselle Irrazabal, Nieves Cabrera
Argentina-France-The Netherlands-Germany-Spain, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 84'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Gijon Best Film
A rising star on the international independent film scene, Lisandro Alonso's latest minimalist film
following Fantasma once more focuses on a loner, Farrel. He has been a sailor for the past twenty
years, drinking to oblivion and paying for his women. During an Atlantic crossing, Farrel leaves the
freighter he is on and goes ashore at Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. He begins a lengthy
journey to Tierra del Fuego's interior, to an isolated village set around an old saw mill. This is where he
was born and his mother is still alive, but there's an addition to the family.

Atlas: 16 Th. 16.00
Rexx: 17 Fr. 11.00
Atlas: 19 Su. 16.00

LOFT
Director:
Erik Van Looy
Cast:
Chris Van Outryve, Vincent Stevens, Filip Willems

Belgium, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 118'
Dutch; English & Turkish s.t.

Five married men. A trendy loft. Mistresses. A murdered woman. The five characters of Loft are also
five suspects: the extremely reliable psychiatrist Chris, the friendly and charismatic architect Vincent,
the unpredictable and dangerous Filip, the silent Luc and the party animal Marnix. They have a secret
pact about the loft they bring their mistresses to. But when they discover the body of a murdered
young woman, they begin to doubt and blame each other. There are only five keys to the loft. Loft is
the second most watched film in Belgian cinema history.

Atlas: 11 Sa. 24.00
Rexx: 15 We. 16.00
Yeni Ruya: 19 Su. 19.00

LOS BASTARDOS**
Director:
Amat Escalante
Cast:
Jesús Moisés Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa, Nina Zavarin
Mexico-France-USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 90'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Morelia Best Mexican Feature
2008 Sitges Best Film-New Visions
2008 Mar del Plata Best Latinoamerican Film
Bratislava Best Director
2008 Courmayeur Film Noir Festival (Italy) Special Jury Prize
Amat Escalante who had shocked audiences with his earlier Sangre returns with another shocker that
points the finger at the industrialised world and the US in their treatment of illegal immigrants. This is
an account of the 24 hours in the lives of Fausto and Jesus, two illegal day-labourers from Mexico.
Through minimalistic dialogue and static takes, tension slowly builds up from the bold opening credits
until the violent gory ending

Rexx: 8 We. 13.30
Atlas: 10 Fr. 11.00
Atlas: 14 Tu. 21.30

MAMMOTH
Director:
Lukas Moodysson
Cast:
Gael García Bernal, Michelle Williams, Marife Necesito
Sweden-Germany-Denmark, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 120'
English-Thai; English & Turkish s.t.

Sweden's best-known director on the international scene with Lilya 4-ever and A Hole in My Heart, is
back with a high-budget, star-studded international feature. His first English-language film is the
intimate story of a wealthy New York couple, Ellen and Leo, their daughter Jackie and Filipino nanny
Gloria. On a business trip to Thailand, Tom realises that he wants to change his life. The chain of
events that he sets off will have dramatic consequences for everyone. Mammoth is one of the biggest
Swedish film projects ever undertaken, filmed on three continents and the process taking around three
years.

Emek: 7 Tu. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 10 Fr. 19.00
City’s: 19 Su. 16.00

MARENOSTRUM
Director:
Ethem Özgüven
Turkey, 2008
Betacam / Colour / 30'
Turkish; English s.t.

In fact, nothing is as romantic as it seems or we think, especially for a small fisherman. Once upon a
time, you get up in the morning and look through the horizon. You are cold. A fish yard protected by
you, your father, his father, old people of Foça or Lycians since thousands of years has been wretched
by a big boat, say five tons of fish were caught overnight. And the yard has finished forever. The fish
has finished. The sea has finished. The respect has finished. The love has finished. The
neighbourhood has finished; most of the Greek neighbours have moved far away... Lie and hypocrisy,
greed and violence have started. That is what we are going through in today's Mediterranean and in
today's world... The Mediterranean, mother of all seas.

Pera: 15 We. 21.30
MEN ON THE BRIDGE
KÖPRÜDEKİLER
Director:
Aslı Özge
Cast:
Fikret Portakal, Murat Tokgöz, Umut İlker
Germany-Turkey, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 90'
Turkish; English s.t.

The illegal rose-seller Fikret, the shared-taxi driver Umut, and the traffic policeman Murat live in the
suburbs of Istanbul and come to work to the centre of the city, the Bosphorus Bridge. Unknown to
each other, their dreams intersect in the rush hour every day with millions of other Istanbulites on the
so-called border between Asia and Europe. The film’s stories are based on the real lives of the main
characters, who act themselves in their original environments. Telling the stories of Berliners in her
first fiction feature A Little Bit of April (2003), Aslı Özge this time tells about the dreams and aspirations
of the young generation in Istanbul.

Emek: 15 We. 21.30

MILK**
SUT
Director:
Semih Kaplanoğlu
Cast:
Melih Selçuk, Başak Köklükaya, Şerif Erol
Turkey-France-Germany, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 102'
Turkish; English s.t.

Vying for the Golden Lion at Venice in August 2008, Milk is the second instalment of Kaplanoğlu's
"Yusuf trilogy" that started with Yumurta / Egg which won the Golden Tulip at Istanbul Film Festival in
2008, and that will be completed with Honey. Recent high school graduate Yusuf is passionate about
writing poetry, and some of his poems are published in some obscure literary journals. But for the time
being, he continues working in his mother Zehra's countryside milk business, also with an uncertain
future. When Yusuf learns about his mother's discreet affair with the town station master, he gets even
more anxious about making the sudden jump toward manhood. Will young Yusuf be able to handle the
changes in his peaceful existence?

Emek: 13 Mo. 16.00
MILK
Director:
Gus Van Sant
Cast:
Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin
USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 128'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Boston Society of Film Critics: Best Director; Best Screenplay; Best Actor (S. Penn)
2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Actor (S. Penn)
2008 USA National Board of Review: Best Supporting Actor (J. Brolin)
2009 Oscar Best Original Screenplay; Best Actor(S. Penn)
The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who
was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone, Milk was described as "a fascinating, multi-
layered history lesson," by the New York Times, and nominated for eight Oscars. Using archival
footage, the film traces Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death: moving from New York to San
Francisco, opening a camera shop, activism, running for office, final victory as the first openly gay
candidate, political battles and death.

Emek: 4 Sa. 21.30
Emek: 5 Su. 16.00
Yeni Ruya: 11 Sa. 16.00
Rexx: 19 Su. 21.30

MODERN LIFE *
LA VIE MODERNE
Director :
Raymond Depardon
Cast:
Paul Argaud, Marcel Challaye, Jacques Chirac
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 90'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

The third instalment of Depardon's portrait on rural French dairy farmers returns to the Haut-Garonne
region years later, documenting not only provincial life but also the people and the region: the Privat
brothers are getting old, the landscape changes, the young give up hope, time passes… Depardon
takes on three roles, as interviewer, cameraman and narrator with an unequalled patience and
affection. The film is structured as a year-long road trip, from farm to farm, from family to family, filling
us up on what has happened in the past years

Atlas:13 Mo. 21.30
Atlas: 19 Su. 13.30

MOMMO-THE BOGEYMAN
MOMMO
Director:
Atalay Taşdiken
Cast:
Elif Bülbül, Mehmet Bülbül, Mehmet Usta
Turkey, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 94'
Turkish; English s.t.

Atalay Taşdiken's first feature-length fiction film that he wrote and directed, Mommo debuted at Berlin
Film Festival in February. Inspired by real-life events, the film tells the story of nine-year-old Ali and his
younger sister Ayşe, both staying at their grandfather's because their father's new wife does not want
them. Can a boy of nine be a big brother, a father, a mother and a guide all at once? And even when
his heart is full of anger, Ayşe misses their irresponsible father, their neighbour wants to give Ayşe to a
foster family… Ayşe is scared of the bogeyman mommo, Ali tries to calm him. But he has his own
fears…

Emek: 12 Su. 13.30

MUTANT ALIENS
Director :
Bill Plympton
Cast:
Dan McComas, Francine Lobis, George Casden
USA, 2001
35 mm / Colour / 75'
English; Turkish s.t.

2001 Annecy Grand Prix
2001 Seoul Best Director
2001 Science Fiction Utopiales (Nantes) Special Jury Prize
2002 Ottawa Best Animated Film
Inspired by the Russian cosmonaut dog Laika and all the other experimental space animals, Bill
Plympton played on the idea that all these animals "circling the earth" banded together and plotted
revenge on the earthlings. Released first as a graphic novel, Mutant Aliens tells the outrageous and
outlandish story of Earl, an astronaut who is stranded in space and rescued by aliens from Planet
Nose, his daughter Josie with her dim-witted boyfriend Darby, and the evil Dr Frubar.

Emek: 8 We. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 13 Mo. 21.30
Rexx: 15 We. 13.30

MY ONLY SUNSHINE
HAYAT VAR
Director:
Reha Erdem
Cast:
Elit İşcan, Erdal Beşikçioğlu, Levend Yılmaz, Banu Fotocan
Turkey, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 121'
Turkish; English s.t.

Director Reha Erdem returns with My Only Sunshine that premiered at Berlin Film Festival's Forum,
two years after Beş Vakit / Times and Winds. Fourteen-year-old Hayat, her father and bedridden
grandfather live in a wooden shack by the waters of the breathtakingly beautiful but dangerous
Bosporus. Hayat's father owns a small boat which he uses for either fishing or some illegal
enterprises, scraping a meagre living. Hayat's life is tough, relentless and merciless, but she is
persistent, resistant. As she tries to cope with her own problems of adolescence, Hayat endures,
maintains her resilience, courage, and hope in the face of the injustice that prevails in the world.

Emek: 16 Th. 16.00

NAZARIN
Director:
Luis Buñuel
Cast:
Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo
Mexico, 1958
35 mm / B&W / 94'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

1959 Cannes International Prize
1961 Bodil Danish Film Critics Union Awards: Best Non-European Film
Nazarin is a humanistic study of the failure of Catholicism, a display of Buñuel's pessimism and
disillusionment with the church. Drawing parallels with the life of Jesus, the film tells the life of Nazario,
a priest living in the poor side of town among prostitutes, thieves and beggars in Mexico during the
early 1900s. He attempts to live a pure and honest life dedicated to Christian values. He aids and
protects a prostitute, but others show him only distrust and contempt. He adamantly strives for
compassion as his religious idealism and social realities clash, but he gets disasters, death, and
suffering

Rexx: 7 Tu. 16.00
Atlas: 11 Sa. 16.00

NEWS ITEMS *
FAITS DIVERS
Director:
Raymond Depardon
France, 1983
35 mm / Colour / 108'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

For three months Raymond Depardon, combining his qualities as photographer, filmmaker and
observer, lived in the police station of the fifth arrondissement in Paris with his camera and became
nearly invisible, winning the confidence of the policemen. He was interested, as the title suggests, only
in the routine assignments of the station that would get one or two paragraphs in the papers:
investigation of a rape charge, transportation of a hysterical old lady to the hospital, rounding up a
drug addict… Premiering at the A Certain Look section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1983,
Depardon's film is intriguing, engaging and sometimes very funny.

Atlas: 12 Su. 11.00
Beyoglu: 15 We. 13.30


NORTH
NORD
Director :
Rune Denstad Langlo
Cast:
Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Kyrre Hellum, Marte Aunemo
Norway, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 78'
Norwegian; English & Turkish s.t.

2009 Berlin Panorama FIPRESCI Prize; Label Europa Cinemas
Premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in February where it opened the Panorama section, North is
director Langlo's debut feature film. It is written by Erlend Roe, who had scripted Gone with the
Woman. Described as a road movie comedy set in romantic natural surroundings, the film follows
Jomar, a former skiing athlete who has isolated himself in a sad, lonely existence after a nervous
breakdown. Five years later, on a snow scooter, Jomar embarks on a strange and dramatic journey
towards reality, towards a fresh start, towards the north, where his ex-girlfriend lives with his child that
he has just learned.

Yeni Ruya 4 Sa. 19.00
Atlas: 9 Th. 11.00
City’s: 12 Su. 11.00

OBLIVION
EL OLVIDO
Director:
Heddy Honigmann
Cast:
Jorge Kanashiro, Luis Cerna, David Gutierrez
The Netherlands-Germany, 2008
DigiBeta / Colour / 94'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 DOK Leipzig FIPRESCI Prize; Silver Dove; Ecumenical Jury Prize
The latest work of Heddy Honigmann, who is considered one of world's best documentary filmmakers,
is a film about poverty and poetry in a country plundered by the powerful, but also a film where the
powerless resist by being consigned to oblivion. Oblivion, is "a poetic celebration of a forgotten city
and its people," Lima, the director's birthplace. Wandering through the streets, visiting restaurants, we
meet moving characters, a street vendor, a shoeshine boy who, with their dreams and poetry look at
history with humour and irony.

Beyoglu: 6 Mo. 13.30
Beyoglu: 10 Fr. 16.00
Beyoglu: 11 Sa. 21.30

OF TIME AND THE CITY
Director:
Terence Davies
UK, 2008
DigiBeta / Colour / 77'
English; Turkish s.t.

Lyrical filmmaker Terence Davies' first film in eight years and first documentary ever is an
autobiographic ode to his hometown, Liverpool, using vintage newsreel footage, contemporary popular
music and a narration by Davies himself. Of Time and the City is both a love song and a eulogy to
Liverpool. It is also a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of place as
the skyline changes and time takes it toll. Terence Davies returns also to his filmmaking roots to
capture a sense of the city today and its influences on him growing up in the late 40s and early 50s.
Liverpool's phoenix-like rise is portrayed like it's never been seen before; how a city can change itself
and the people under its influence…

Beyoglu: 4 Sa. 19.00
Beyoglu: 16 Th. 21.30
Beyoglu: 19 Su. 11.00

ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL
İKİ DİL BİR BAVUL
Directors:
Orhan Eskiköy & Özgür Doğan
Turkey, 2008
DigiBeta / Colour / 81'
Turkish-Kurdish; English s.t.

Competing for the Joris Ivens Award at Amsterdam International Documentary Festival IDFA in 2008,
the latest film from experienced documentary makers Orhan Eskiköy and Özgür Doğan is a film about
a Turkish teacher who is alone in a village as an authority of the state, and about his interaction with
the Kurdish children who have to learn Turkish. The film witnesses the communication problem
emphasizing the loneliness of a teacher in a different community and culture; and the changes brought
up by his presence into this different community during one year. The film chronicles one school year,
during which the students and the teacher begin to know and understand each other mutually and
slowly.

Beyoglu: 17 Fr. 16.00

OPIUM WAR**
Director :
Siddiq Barmak
Cast :
Peter Bussian, Joe Suba, Fawad Samani
Afghanistan-Japan-S. Korea-France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 90'
Dari-English; English & Turkish s.t.

The second feature film from Siddiq Barmak following his highly-acclaimed Osama in 2003 was
Afghanistan's nominee for the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Filmed with non-
professional actors, the story of this dark comedy is set in a far, mountainous region of northern
Afghanistan. Two American soldiers, a bigoted white officer and a black PI, survive a helicopter crash.
Injured and exhausted, they cross a poppy field, and confront the family who plants the field: a farmer,
his three wives, deranged daughter and foul-mouthed son living in an abandoned Soviet tank.

Atlas: 17 Fr. 16.00
Atlas: 18 Sa. 11.00
Rexx: 19 Su. 11.00

PANDORA'S BOX **
PANDORA'NIN KUTUSU
Director :
Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Cast:
Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Övül Avkıran, Onur Ünsal
Turkey-France-Germany-Belgium, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 112'
Turkish; English s.t.

2008 San Sebastian Best Film; Best Actress (T. Chelton)
2008 Antalya Best Supporting Actress (Ö. Avkıran)
2008 Amiens Best Actress (T. Chelton)
Debuting at Toronto Film Festival, Pandora's Box is a story of alienation and isolation told through an
estranged family: two sisters, Nesrin and Güzin, and a brother, Mehmet –who live in İstanbul. When
they are informed that their mother Nusret has disappeared, they travel to their small Black Sea town
where they were born. They come to realise that they know very little about each others and
themselves. When they all return to Istanbul, the only person Nusret can communicate turns out to be
her grandson Murat.

Emek 14 Tu. 16.00

PONTYPOOL
Director :
Bruce McDonald
Cast:
Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak
Canada, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 95'
English; Turkish s.t.

Words are killing. Everyone who speaks. People are eating other people. It's either the best or the
worst place to stay at, inside a radio station, in the basement of a church. The reports are bizarre;
people do terrible things, develop strange speech patterns. How can you stop a virus that spreads
through the English language? Acclaimed director Bruce McDonald (The Tracey Fragments) keeps
the morning team of a radio station trapped as the insane behaviour takes over a whole town in this
philosophical, avant-garde zombie horror film that is anything but predictable.

Atlas: 4 Sa. 24.00
Rexx: 7 Tu. 13.30
Beyoglu: 17 Fr. 24.00

PORTRAITS FROM TURKISH CINEMA: TOLGAY ZİYAL, HALİT REFİĞ, MEMDUH ÜN
Turkey, 2009
Turkish; English s.t.
Pera: 15 We. 16.00


PRISON NR. 5
PRISON NR. 5
Director :
Çayan Demirel
Turkey, 2009
DVD / Colour / 96'
Turkish; English s.t.

This documentary reveals the truth about the period from the military coup of September 12, 1980 up
to 1984 in the Diyarbakır Prison Nr. 5 which caused the death of 34 prisoners and maimed hundreds
of others. Through testimonies, the documentary depicts the years 1980-1984 in the Diyarbakır prison,
which the military authorities of the time defined as a "military school" while the prisoners called a
"ferocity period".

Pera: 17 Fr. 19.00

PROFILES OF FARMERS: DAILY LIFE *
PROFILS PAYSANS: LE QUOTIDIEN
Director :
Raymond Depardon
Cast:
Marcel Privat, Raymond Privat, Alain Rouvière
France, 2005
35 mm / Colour / 83'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

In the second film of his trilogy on the French countryside, Depardon returns to observe everyday life
in the small farms that resist the industrialization of agriculture. In Lozère, Ardèche and the Haute-
Loire, we meet up again with several families living a rural life that appeared in L'Approche four years
earlier. While the old get older, young farmers set up new houses, but numerous others sell off their
estates which become vacation houses for urbanites. Depardon captures life and the characters as
they are: the quiet Marcel, loner Paul, dignified Marcelle, the bachelor Alain

Beyoglu: 5 Su. 13.30
Atlas: 10 Fr. 13.30




PROFILES OF FARMERS: GETTING CLOSER *
PROFILS PAYSANS: L'APPROCHE
Director :
Raymond Depardon
Cast:
Marcelle Brès, Raymond Privat, Louis Brès
France, 2001
35 mm / Colour / 88'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

The first part of Depardon's farmers trilogy that chronicles throughout a ten-year period, the
transformation of rural life in France. French rural life has undergone enormous changes in the last
century, and having spent his childhood on the Gret farm in the Saône Valley in central France,
Depardon's sensitivity and interest in the subject is more than understandable. In this very personal
film, Depardon observes, befriends and chats with the villagers, capturing their work routine and
secluded, calm life. This first part of the trilogy, followed by Daily Life (2005) and Modern Life (2008), is
dedicated "to the approach, our approach, to these farms and their inhabitants."
Beyoglu: 4 Sa. 11.00
Atlas: 9 Th. 13.30

QUIET CHAOS
CAOS CALMO
Director :
Antonello Grimaldi
Cast:
Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Isabella Alessandro Gassman
Italy, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 112'
Italian; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Chicago Best Screenplay
2008 Italy David di Donatello Awards: Best Music; Best Song; Best Supporting Actor (A. Gassman)
With one of the best Italian directors, Nanni Moretti starring, this is a beautiful film looking at
bereavement from a different perspective. "Quiet chaos" is what Pietro has been experiencing ever
since his wife's sudden death. On her daughter's first day to school, Pietro drives her, and waits for her
outside until the classes are over. He does the same thing the following day, and the days after that.
His bosses, colleagues, relatives come to understand him, but it turns out that he understand them
better.

City’s: 4 Sa. 11.00
Emek: 7 Tu. 13.30
Emek: 9 Th. 19.00

RAIN
LLUVIA
Director:
Paula Hernández
Cast:
Valeria Bertucelli & Ernesto Alterio
Argentina, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 110'
Spanish; Turkish s.t.

2008 Mannheim Best Film
"A wonderful film about chance, a masterpiece of directing" the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival
jury lauded Rain. The second feature of Paula Hernández is about rain in Buenos Aires that has not
stopped fort here days straight, about Alma who left the man she's been with for years, and about
Roberto who has moved back home after spending thirty years abroad. In the middle of the traffic jam,
Alma's car door opens, and Roberto gets in. This will be the beginning of a new life for two desperate,
hopeless, lonely people.

Beyoglu: 4 Sa. 13.30
Atlas: 8 We. 11.00
Rexx: 11 Sa. 11.00

RED BRIDGE
PIRDESUR (KIRMIZIKÖPRÜ)
Director :
Caner Canerik
Cast:
Ali Şanlı, Cevahir Şanlı, Metin Güler
Turkey, 2008
miniDV / Colour / 90'
Turkish-Kurkish; English s.t.

The latest film from director Caner Canerik, who has switched to documentaries after a career in news
reporting chronicles his observations from the Kırmızıköprü Village (Pırdesur in Kurdish) in Pülümür
town in the east of Turkey where he was born, and his return years after he has left for college.
Especially after 1990, internal migration caused big tragedies in the east and south east regions of
Turkey. Three million people, according to unofficial statistics, left their homes and savings and
migrated to cities they hardly knew. Kırmızıköprü now only has a population of 30 following emigration
from the village, and the stories of these people who did not migrate, who continued to live there
reflect the cultural and social transformation, life and struggle in the village.

Pera: 16 Th. 21.30

RED RIVER BLACK SHEEP
KIZILIRMAK KARAKOYUN
Director :
Ö. Lütfi Akad
Cast:
Yılmaz Güney, Nilüfer Koçyiğit, Kadir Savun
Turkey, 1967
35 mm / B&W / 90'
Turkish; French s.t.

This Anatolian legend was first adapted to screen by Muhsin Ertuğrul and Nâzım Hikmet who wrote
the screenplay. This remake is one of the best examples of the collaboration between Ö. Lütfi Akad
and Yılmaz Güney, and it has influenced Yılmaz Güney's works that he directed in later years. Güney
plays the shepherd Ali Haydar who is in love with Hatice, the daughter of the agha of the nomadic
village. However, this is against tradition, so the elders agree to this on the condition that Ali Haydar
pass thirsty sheep across the river without drinking any water. The shepherd succeeds, but the agha
fails his promise which results in the villagers revolting.

Beyoglu: 13 Mo. 16.00

REMBRANDT'S J'ACCUSE
Director :
Peter Greenaway
Cast:
Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Emily Holmes, Jonathan Holmes
The Netherlands-Germany-Finland, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 86'
English; Turkish s.t.

Greenaway had dissected Rembrandt's The Night Watch painting in the amazing crime feature
Nightwatching screened at the Festival in 2008. And in 2009, he returns to the painting once again,
with a crime documentary in which he is on screen throughout, in an image box, serving both as a tour
guide and detective, dissecting history with dramatisations and split screens, revealing the conspiracy
behind and inside the painting: the murder, the motive, conspirators, murderers, clues and the
outcome. This is a CSI with Rembrandt as detective, accuser, prosecutor and judge.

Beyoglu: 8 We. 16.00
Beyoglu: 11 Sa. 13.30
Beyoglu: 12 Su. 11.00

RESTLESS**
Director :
Amos Kollek
Cast:
Moshe Ivgy, Ran Danker, Karen Young
Israel-Canada-Germany-France-Belgium, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 100'
English-Hebrew; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Berlin Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
Troia Silver Dolphin (Best Screenplay); CICAE European Cinemas Award
Israeli-born American independent filmmaker Amos Kollek's fifteenth feature is about a father and son,
and redemption. The father, Moshe has moved to America from Israel, fleeing from responsibility and
his newly born child. Now, 20 years later, he's hit rock bottom, he can't even pay his rent. Meanwhile
his son Tzach is discharged from an elite unit of the Israeli army. After his mother's death, he finds his
father's address. When Tzach and Moshe meet for the first time, years of pent up resentment is
unleashed.

Rexx: 4 Sa. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 5 Su. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 8 We. 11.00



REVANCHE
Director :
Götz Spielmann
Cast:
Johannes Krisch, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss, Irina Potapenko
Austria, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 121'
German; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Berlin CICAE Prize; Femina Film Prize; Label Europa Cinemas
2008 Graz Best Austrian Film
2009 Palm Springs Best Foreign Language Film
2009 Tromsö Best Film; FIPRESCI Prize
A striking psychological drama, and Austria's nominee for the Oscars, Revanche centres on the
despair of two young lovers who cannot escape their destiny: Tamara, a Ukrainian prostitute, and
Alex, her boss's errand boy. They devise a plan to rob a bank, it all goes well, but a policeman shows
up, and shoots Tamara. Devastated, Alex goes to the woods, consumed by hate, planning his
revenge. And here he meets Susanne, the policeman's wife.

Atlas: 17 Fr. 11.00
Emek: 18 Sa. 21.30
Rexx: 19 Su. 19.00

RICKY**
Director :
François Ozon
Cast:
Alexandra Lamy, Sergi López, Mélusine Mayance
France-Italy, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 90'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

François Ozon's first feature following the 2007 feminist melodrama Angel is a film about life. When
Katie, an ordinary woman meets Paco, an ordinary man, something magical and miraculous happens:
they fall in love. Out of their love comes an extraordinary baby, a very special baby: Ricky. The film
fuses genres, which Ozon says mixes thriller, horror, sci-fi, comedy and fairy tale elements. The film is
adapted from British writer Rose Tremain's short story Moth.

Emek: 11 Sa. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 17 Fr. 21.30
City’s: 19 Su. 21.30

ROOM AND A HALF
POLTORY KOMNATY ILI SENTIMENTALNOE PUTESHESTVIE NA RODINU
Director :
Andrey Khrzhanovsky
Cast:
Alisa Freindlich, Sergei Yurskiy, Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy
Russia, 2009
35 mm / Colour and B&W / 130'
Russian; English & Turkish s.t.

A unique assembly: the early life of great Russian poet, Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky told by great
filmmaker, animator and documentarist Andrei Khrzhanovsky. "A magical, wildly creative fantasia,"
according to Variety, the film premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival in January and welds fiction,
archival footage, animation and stills. Brodsky was exiled from Russia to the USA in 1972, never
visiting his motherland again. Khrzhanovsky imagines Brodsky returning home, anonymously, and we
return to the USSR of the 50s and early 60s, soaking up the atmosphere of the "European" city of St.
Petersburg.

Yeni Ruya 14 Tu. 16.00
Atlas: 15 We. 21.30
Rexx: 17 Fr. 16.00

RUMBA**
Directors :
Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Cast:
Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Philippe Martz, Bruno Romy
France-Belgium, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 77'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Zagreb Best Film
An extremely stylised, unusual, colourful, joyful, at the same time funny and melancholic invitation to
dance; a Tatiesque film with minimal dialogue that captures the spirit of the burlesque actors of the
silent era. Played by the directors themselves, the main characters Fiona and Dom are teachers in the
idyllic countryside. They are in love with each other as they are with Latin dancing. They even have
lots of trophies that they won. One night, as they are returning from a competition, they try to avoid a
failed suicide victim in the middle of the road. Their car hits a wall and their life is turned upside down.

Emek: 17 Fr. 11.00
Eemek: 18 Sa. 16.00
Rexx: 19 Su. 16.00

SALVATORE GIULIANO
Director.
Francesco Rosi
Cast.
Sennuccio Benelli, Max Cartier, Salvo Randone
Italy, 1961
35 mm / B&W / 125'
Italian; English & Turkish s.t.

1962 Berlin Best Director
1952 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists: Best B/W Cinematography; Best Director; Best
Score
Bringing international prominence to Francesco Rosi, this crime drama is the first of his signature
mosaic-style exposes of real characters and incidents. Based on the factual account of Salvatore
Giuliano, a Sicilian bandit and folk hero turned Mafia boss, who after the war became an important
player in Sicily's guerrilla independence movement, the film begins with the shooting of Salvatore
Giuliano and unfolds back to his life and times, his participation in gangster related activities,
slaughtering communists and confrontation with the law. In the end, he is so violent and cruel that
even his own men desert him.

Atlas: 10 Fr. 19.00
Rexx: 13 Mo. 13.30
SEBASTIANE
Directors:
Derek Jarman & Paul Humfress
Cast:
Leonardo Trevıglıo, Barney James, Neil Kennedy
UK, 1976
35 mm / Colour / 90'
Latin; English & Turkish s.t.

Derek Jarman's first full-length work and the first film to be ever shot completely in Latin, Sebastiane
portrays the events of the life of Saint Sebastian, including his iconic martyrdom by arrows. The film is
considered to be a landmark in gay cinema due to its courageous depiction of a Roman military
outpost in the era of Emperor Diocletian, when homosexuality was just a part of sexuality. Sebastiane
is deemed significant in tracing the plight of Christian Sebastian defying the lustful advances of pagan
Severus due to the cinema vérité techniques borrowed from Pasolini, Brian Eno's minimalist score,
breathtaking visual design using the compositions of Renaissance paintings, and its thematic core of
spirituality and faith.

Rexx: 9 Th. 13.30
Yeni Ruya: 18 Sa. 21.30

SHIRIN
Director :
Abbas Kiarostami
Cast:
Rena Azadivar, Vishka Asayesh, Juliette Binoche, Hedieh Tehrani, Niki Karimi, Taraneh Alidoustı,
Fatemeh Motamedarya
Iran, 2008
DigiBeta / Colour / 92'
Persian; English & Turkish s.t.

Khosrow and Shirin is a 12th century Persian romance tale that depicts the love of a king to a
princess, but Kiarostami's Shirin is a collage of 112 Iranian actresses and Juliette Binoche, filmed
watching an entirely off-screen production of the tale. The close-ups of the women, sometimes
individually sometimes with other women, are captured, and the audience just sees their natural
responses –laughter, relief, sadness, even tears. With a soundtrack, the tale is narrated in a
sometimes tragic, sometimes kitsch way. Kiarostami has been distancing himself from classical
narration, and Shirin is both an expression of this approach and also his ambition for photography.

Beyoglu: 18 Sa. 11.00-19.00




SILENCE... WE'RE ROLLING **
SKOOT HANSAWWAR
Director :
Yusuf Şahin
Cast:
Latifa, Ahmed Bedir, Ahmed Wafik, Magda El-Khatib
France-Egypt, 2001
35 mm / Colour / 102'
Arabic-French; English & Turkish s.t.

Great Egyptian master's thirty-sixth feature film was shot two films before his last, Chaos. The world's
most respected Arab filmmaker wrote and directed this dramatic comedy, a hilarious musical
melodrama on celebrity culture. The film tells the story of Malak, a rich singer-actress and her
daughter, both wooed by Lamei, a doctor who wants to become an actor. Lamei intends to use
Malak's money and fame to realise his dreams, but Malak falls for this opportunist. Her screenwriter
and director discourage the relationship, and her career is jeopardised.

Beyoglu: 5 Su. 21.30
Rexx: 7 Tu. 11.00

SIMON OF THE DESERT
SIMÓN DEL DESIERTO
Director :
Luis Buñuel
Cast:
Claudio Brook, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Silvia Pinal
Mexico, 1965
35 mm / B&W / 45'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

1965 Venice FIPRESCI Prize; Special Jury Prize
Buñuel once more criticises the trivialisation of faith through imagery and heavy symbolism in this
surreal and witty parable based on the story of the 5th century Syrian saint Simeon Stylites. Simon
has lived for 6 years, 6 weeks and 6 days atop a pillar in the middle of the desert praying for spiritual
purification. He is praised by a congregation of priests and peasants, heals an amputee, and
condemns a handsome priest. The Devil visits him in disguise, but cannot deceive him until the third
visit, when they both are transported to 1960s disco with a dancing crowd.

Rexx: 7 Tu. 16.00
Atlas: 11 Sa. 16.00




SOMERS TOWN
Director :
Shane Meadows
Cast:
Piotr Jagiello, Thomas Turgoose, Ireneusz Czop
UK, 2008
35 mm / Colour and B&W / 75'
French-Polish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Edinburgh Best British Film
2008 Tribeca Best Actor (T. Turgoose & P. Jagiello)
The young star of This is England, Thomas Turgoose, is Tomo, a troubled boy who has run away from
his home to London. There he meets Marek, a shy Polish teenager who shares his flat with his
labourer father in a rundown area. When Marek agrees for Tomo to stay with them, they form a strong
bond as they work odd jobs for an eccentric neighbour, compete for the attention of the beautiful
French waitress Maria, and try to avoid being discovered by Marek's father. Somers Town is a heart-
warming tale of how life-changing friendships can be found in the most unlikely of places.

Emek: 10 Fr. 16.00
Rexx: 11 Sa. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 12 Su. 19.00

STELLA*
Director:
Sylvie Verheyde
Cast:
Léora Barbara, Mélissa Rodriguez, Karole Rocher, Benjamin Biolay
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 103'
French; English & Turkish s.t.
Actress-screenwriter-director Sylvie Verheyde's third feature film is a moving coming-of-age film that
chronicles a year in the life of the eleven-year-old Stella. It's 1977. Stella lives outside Paris in a
working-class neighbourhood. Her parents run a bar and she attends a prestigious Parisian School,
where she meets Gladys, the daughter of two intellectual Argentinean Jewish exiles. Through songs
and books that Stella discovers at her friend's house, she slowly enters another dimension - real life.
Recently deceased actor Guillaume Depardieu makes one of his final appearances on screen.

Yeni Ruya: 4 Sa. 11.00
Rexx: 6 Mo. 11.00
Atlas: 7 Tu. 16.00

STILL WALKING
ARUITEMO, ARUITEMO
Director :
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast:
Yoshio Harada, Kirin Kiki, Hiroshi Abe
Japan, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 114'
Japanese; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Mar del Plata Best Film; Cinematographic Reporters Award
Kore-eda's latest film following Hana is a family drama with a subtle balance of humour and sorrow,
and unfolds over one summer day. The son and daughter of aging parents return home for a family
reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the death of the
eldest son. This is a typical dysfunctional family, bonded by love as well as resentments and secrets.
Reminiscent of Ozu's masterpiece Tokyo Story, Still Walking portrays just how precious and exactly
how annoying, family can be.

Yeni Ruya: 5 Su. 16.00
Emek: 12 Su. 11.00
Rexx: 15 We. 11.00

STRIKE THE WHORE
VURUN KAHPEYE
Director:
Lütfi Akad
Cast:
Sezer Sezin, Temel Karamahmut, Settar Körmükçü
Turkey, 1949
35 mm / B&W / 110'
Turkish; English s.t.

Adapted from Halide Edip Adıvar's 1926 novel, Strike the Whore follows Aliye, an idealist teacher from
Istanbul, who is appointed to a small town in Anatolia during the Turkish War of Independence. Once
she arrives in the town, she tries to organise the townspeople to support the national armed forces in
their struggle against occupation forces, however, her efforts are defied by the fundamentalist Hacı
Fettah, who gathers the townsfolk and has Aliye lynched on grounds of debauchery and indecency.
The original novel was adapted three times to the screen, but this first one is considered the best. Ö.
Lütfi Akad's directorial debut, it is also considered as the best pre-1950 Turkish Independence War
film.

Emek: 10 Fr. 21.30

SUMMER
Director :
Kenneth Glenaan
Cast:
Robert Carlyle, Rachael Blake, Steve Evets
UK, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 83'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 BAFTA Best Film; Best Director
2008 Rome Best Film (Alice in the City, Youth)
2008 Edinburgh Best Performance (R. Carlyle)
A witty, poignant story about loyalty, friendship and love, and about a life gone helplessly awry.
Growing up in small-town Britain, Shaun and Daz are joined at the hip, vibrant kids, but wasted. Shaun
is bound to lose, he's the charmer, the rebel, but labelled as a violent bully. Shaun, his first love Katy
and Daz have an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty; the end of innocence. Twelve years later,
Daz dies, and Shaun is forced to go on a journey to confront his past, reflecting upon that summer.

Yeni Ruya: 11 Sa. 21.30
City’s: 12 Su. 13.30
Yeni Ruya: 13 Mo. 13.30

SUMMER HOURS *
L'HEURE D'ÉTÉ
Director :
Olivier Assayas
Cast:
Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 102'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

Hailed as Assayas' finest work to date, Summer Hours examines the bourgeois family and its
divisions, meditating on what memory and family mean as we grow older and how objects play a role
in that. Three forty-something siblings are left to come to terms with themselves and their differences
when their mother, heiress to an exceptional art collection, dies suddenly. As they heartbreakingly
relinquish the family belongings, Adrienne, a successful designer, Frédéric, a university professor, and
Jérémie, a dynamic businessman, confront the disappearance of their intimate childhood memories,
their shared memories, background and unique visions of the future

Emek: 12 Su. 16.00
Yeni Ruya: 13 Mo. 16.00
City’s 18 Sa. 16.00

SUNSHINE BARRY & DISCO WORMS
DISCO ORMENE
Director :
Thomas Borch Nielsen
Cast:
Jason Graae, Frank Lenart, Heather Carino
Denmark-Germany, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 78'
English

Fun, colours, and most importantly, unbeatable disco music! Barry the worm will bring the old disco
beat to town in this lively, exciting computer animation. Barry is a worm not respected by anyone. He
has a boring life and a boring job. Until the day his father hands him an old record. He dances
perfectly, and he decides to form a band for the upcoming annual song contest. But not everything is
easy to sway with the rhythm. Suddenly, he is scooped from earth with his friends to be sold as bait!

There will be Turkish dubbing.
For children aged over 6.

City’s: 4 Sa. 13.30
Rexx: 5 Su. 13.30
Rexx: 19 Su. 13.30




SUNSHINE CLEANING
Director:
Christine Jeffs
Cast:
Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin
USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 102'
English; Turkish s.t.

From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine comes a very dark and even morbid comedy drama about
a family that tries to overcome challenges of life. Rose, the older sister is a single mom, Norah, the
younger sister, is a pot-smoker who'll do anything to avoid adulthood. Together they take care of
Rose's son Oscar and their father (played by Alan Arkin), trying to keep out of trouble. But to scrape
by, they have to work, no matter the job, even if it is cleaning up the scene after someone has died. In
no time, the girls are up to their elbows with suicide, murders and all. But they see the joys of creating
a bright future and having each other.

Emek: 9 Th. 21.30
City’s: 11 Sa. 19.00
Atlas: 18 Sa. 21.30

SWEET RUSH
TATARAK
Director :
Andrzej Wajda
Cast:
Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda, Jan Englert
Poland, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 85'
Polish; English & Turkish s.t.

2009 Berlin Alfred Bauer Prize
Competing for the Golden Bear at Berlin in February, Wajda's latest film following 2008's Oscar
nominee war epic Katyn, departs from the great Polish director's previous political films and returns to
psychological drama "centring on the woman as subject." The film tells the story of Marta, a middle-
aged woman married to a small town doctor, who searches for happiness in the arms of a much
younger man, Bogus. But, just when everything seems to be going well for them, Bogus drowns,
entangled in the roots of sweet rush he was trying to pick for Marta.

Atlas: 6 Mo. 11.00
Rexx: 8 We. 21.30
Emek: 11 Sa. 13.30

THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX
DER BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX
Director :
Uli Edel
Cast:
Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek
Germany, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 149'
German; English & Turkish s.t.

Tough, fast-moving, urgent, breathless, piece of movie-making" according to the writer-producer
Bernd Eichinger, also the co-scripter and producer of Downfall and Perfume, this is the most
expensive German film ever made and the official German submission for the Oscars 2009. This
account of the Red Army Faction (RAF), which was the most prominent and popular radical left
terrorist group in Germany, begins in 1967, and ends in 1977 with the death in prison of the gang's
leading members, but does not romanticise the terrorist chic, as some previous treatments.

Emek: 5 Su. 21.30
Yeni Ruya 12 Su. 16.00
Rexx: 13 Mo. 21.30

THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS
LES PLAGES D'AGNÈS
Director:
Agnès Varda
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 109'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

2009 César Best Documentary
One of the major figures of the Nouveau Roman movement and post-war cinema, the 80-year-old
Agnès Varda has frequently revealed herself in front of the camera in her works. But her latest is an
autobiographical essay, "a kaleidoscope, a collage, a fantasy" that opens with a shot of the director
walking backwards on a beach. A beach, because she states that if one opened her up, she would
reveal beaches inside of her. Counter-narrated by her director friend Chris Marker as a hand-drawn
cat, The Beaches of Agnès are profound, engaging and moving statements about her time, life and
memory weaved from photographs, vintage footage, scenes from her films and present-day
sequences.

Rexx: 11 Sa. 16.00
Atlas: 12 Su. 21.30
Emek: 17 Fr. 13.30

THE BEAUTIFUL PERSON
LA BELLE PERSONNE
Director :
Christophe Honoré
Cast:
Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 97'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

Christophe Honoré's latest film following the musical Love Songs, is another story of a romantic
intrigue in a Paris lycee, once more featuring Louis Garrel, but this time as a teacher. Sixteen-year-old
Junie changes schools in the middle of the academic year, following the death of her mother. She is
soon courted by boys and agrees to become the girlfriend of the quietest, Otto. But soon she falls in
love with Nemours, her Italian teacher. Junie, not wishing to surrender to her feelings, refuses to give
in to happiness or their passion, love is just an illusion for her.

Atlas: 4 Sa. 16.00
Yeni Ruya 6 Mo. 13.30
Rexx 7 Tu. 21.30

THE CHASER
CHUGYEOGJA
Director :
Hong-jin Na
Cast:
Yun-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Yeong-hie Seo
South Korea, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 125'
Korean; English & Turkish s.t.

The hero (or anti-hero) of this blood and rain-soaked debut feature on dead-ends and desperation is
Joong-ho, an ex-cop now working as a pimp. When his girls start disappearing, he keeps close track
of a man he suspects. It turns out that the man is responsible for torturing and killing the girls. The
suspected serial killer is under custody of the incompetent and bureaucracy-hampered police, but he
will be released in 12 hours. Joong-ho at first strives to regain his assets, but he will have to struggle
against time and the cops to save a girl. This tense race set in 24 hours on the streets of Seoul plays
with and breaks the genre's conventions.

Atlas: 10 Fr. 21.30
Rexx: 13 Mo. 16.00
Atlas: 18 Sa. 24.00

THE COTTAGE
Director :
Paul Andrew Williams
Cast:
Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith, Jennifer Ellison
UK, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 92'
English; Turkish s.t.

Starting off as a typical gangster film with a kidnapping gone quite wrong where the kidnapee is a foul-
mouthed sexy young girl, The Cottage turns into a gory slasher with a heavy dose of comedy. The
story revolves around David and Peter, two brothers who kidnap Tracey, the daughter of a mob boss,
and bring her to a cottage in the middle of the night. A while later, Tracey's brother also appears at the
cottage, but he's just after the ransom money. But none of them have anticipated the presence of
someone else lurking in the dark: the psychotic farmer. "It's an homage to all the clichés that are in all
those (horror) films," says director Williams for his latest low-budget horror comedy.

Beyoglu: 10 Fr. 24.00
Rexx: 14 Tu. 13.30
Emek: 18 Sa. 11.00

THE COUNTESS**
LA COMTESSE
Director :
Julie Delpy
Cast:
Julie Delpy, William Hurt, Daniel Brühl
France-Germany, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 94'
English; Turkish s.t.

The most prolific and bloodthirsty female serial killer in history was the 16th century Hungarian
countess Elizabeth Bathory, also known as the Blood Countess. And her story comes alive with the
star-studded The Countess directed by Julie Delpy, who also plays her. The legend goes that
Countess Bathory tortured and killed around 650 young girls and bathed in their blood to retain her
youth. However, Delpy focuses more on the psychological drama and the power struggles of the era
than the epic side of the story. Making its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February, the
film is "a drama. It's about murder, cruelty and vanity. It's 16th century. It's a very dark movie,"
according to Delpy.

Yeni Ruya 8 We. 19.00
Emek: 18 Sa. 19.00
City’s: 19 Su. 19.00

THE DECLIC YEARS *
LES ANNÉES DÉCLIC
Director :
Raymond Depardon
France, 1984
35 mm / B&W / 65'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

During the years he worked as a photojournalist and as a documentary-maker, Raymond Depardon
hounded the stars like a paparazzi, crossed the Chad desert, filmed politicians and armed rebels, and
witnessed May 1968 protests. This autobiographical portrait that consists of the photographs he took,
excerpts from his films and photographs from his childhood, recounts twenty years (1957-1977) in the
life of this extraordinary artist. The title of the film is a pun on the sound of the camera shutter.

Atlas: 6 Mo. 19.00
Atlas: 16 Th. 13.30




FISH CHILD **
EL NIÑO PEZ
Director:
Lucía Puenzo
Cast:
Inés Efron, Mariela Vitale, Pep Munné
Argentina-Spain-France, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 96'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

Lala, a teenager from the exclusive suburban neighbourhood in Argentina is in love with Guayi, the
Paraguayan maid working at her place. The two young women dream of living together in Paraguay.
Robbing every purse and wallet in the house to fulfil their dream, they hide the money in a shoe box.
But when the box is full, it bursts, fuelled by desire, jealousy and rage. Revenge, harsh sex, legends
and blood weave a plot that finds a way out from the uncertainty with which young people live in the
same world they condemn. Following the success of her debut film XXY, Lucía Puenzo has chosen to
adapt her own novel for the screen, once more casting Inés Efron as her lead

Atlas: 11 Sa. 13.30
Rexx: 12 Su. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 13 Mo. 11.00

THE HEADLESS WOMAN **
LA MUJER SIN CABEZA
Director :
Lucrecia Martel
Cast:
Maria Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Inés Efron
Argentina-Spain-France-Italy, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 87'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Lima Critics Award
2008 Rio de Janeiro FIPRESCI Prize
Co-produced by Pedro Almodovar, The Headless Woman articulates class issues and plays with
emotions and perception while Lucrecia Martel follows an elliptical and metaphorical narration.
Veronica is driving on the highway. She becomes distracted and runs over something, but drives on.
On the days following this incident, she fails to recognize the feelings that bond her to objects and
people. It's a negative awakening. The police confirm that there were no accident reports. But she has
doubts about what she had really hit. Was it an animal? A child?

Emek: 4 Sa. 16.00
Rexx: 10 Fr. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 15 We. 11.00

THE HURT LOCKER
Director :
Kathryn Bigelow
Cast:
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 130'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Venice Human Rights Film Network Award; SIGNIS Award; Young Cinema Award
The latest from the director of cult films Point Break and Strange Days is co-written by Mark Boal, also
the scriptwriter of In the Valley of Elah. The film was commended by Time magazine as "a near perfect
movie about men in war, man at work." Also starring Ralph Fiennes and Guy Pierce, The Hurt Locker
follows Sanborn and Eldridge who have the most dangerous job in the world: disarming bombs in Iraq.
The newly arrived sergeant, James, takes over the team, and plunges them into a deadly game of
urban combat.

Emek: 13 Mo. 21.30
Rexx: 14 Tu. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 19 Su. 21.30

THE INVESTIGATOR
A NYOMOZÓ
Director :
Attila Galambos
Cast:
Zsolt Anger, Judit Rezes, Sandor Terhes
Hungary-Sweden-Ireland, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 107'
Hungarian; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Hungarian Film Week Best Genre Film; Best Actor (Z. Anger); Best Screenplay; Best Editing
Warsaw FIPRESCI Prize
An ordinary pathologist working at a hospital, Tibor. He is troubled by his ailing mother. And then a
stranger makes him an offer: to kill a stranger. He accepts for the money to save his mother. But then
he receives a letter… from his victim, who turns out to be closer than a stranger. Thus the
investigation starts, where the murderer is trying to find out who the victim was. A debut feature, "a
thriller, but it is a kind of 'film noir', a bit of an 'art-house' thriller, with really nice grotesque humour".

Yeni Ruya: 8 We. 21.30
Yeni Ruya: 10 Fr. 13.30
City’s :12 Su. 21.30

THE JOY OF SINGING *
LE PLAISIR DE CHANTER
Director :
Ilan Duran Cohen
Cast:
Marina Foïs, Lorànt Deutsch, Jeanne Balibar, Julien Baumgartner
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 98'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

What could bring a bigger joy than singing? The characters of this mystery crime drama are all in
search of the ultimate joy, and they all take singing lessons from the same tutor, Eve… One of Eve's
students is the naïve Constance, a recent widow whose husband is brutally murdered by people after
a uranium secret. Among Eve's students also are Muriel and Philippe from the French intelligence, the
handsome Julien who is into both guys and girls, and Eve's son. Who is genuine with their emotions,
and who is undercover? The director of The Confusion of Genders weaves a delectable web of dark
comedy, sex secrets, a USB stick, the joy of singing, and perhaps love.

Emek: 16 Th. 19.00
Atlas: 17 Fr. 13.30
Rexx: 18 Sa. 16.00

THE LAST SEASON: SHAWAKS
DEMSALA DAWÎ: ŞEWAXAN
Director :
Kazım Öz
Turkey, 2008
HD / Colour / 92'
Turkish-Kurdish; English s.t.

Filmmaker Kâzım Öz, who participated to the National Competition in 2008 with his fiction feature
Fırtına / Storm, observes the nomadic Shawak community that lives in the Tunceli region, which is
also his birthplace, for a whole year, chronicling their lifestyle, relations with nature, life standards and
community structure. The Shawaks are a nomadic community in eastern Turkey breeding and raising
livestock. In the winter, they live in stone houses in a village, and in the spring, when the lambs are
born, they take their livestock up to higher pasture in the mountains. A brutal hike uphill. High up, they
pitch the tents where they spend the summer. When the weather starts to cool, it is now time to climb
down, through the same path.

Beyoglu: 16 Th. 19.00

THE LIFE OF OHARU
SAIKAKU ICHIDAI ONNA
Director :
Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast:
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Japan, 1952
35 mm / B&W / 148'
Japanese; English & Turkish s.t.

1952 Venice International Award
Mizoguchi has been recognised as the first major feminist director, and one of the three masters of
Japanese cinema, and The Life of Oharu is considered to be his best film, constituting an excellent
example of the long take aesthetic. Based on various stories from Ihara Saikaku, the film examines
the issues of class and hierarchy in the Japanese society in the Edo period through the poignant story
of Oharu, a geisha struggling to escape the stigma of having been sold to prostitution by her own
father.

Atlas: 8 We. 21.30
Rexx: 12 Su. 16.00




THE MILK OF SORROW
LA TETA ASUSTADA
Director :
Claudia Llosa
Cast:
Magaly Solier, Marino Ballon, Susi Sanchez
Spain-Peru, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 94'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2009 Berlin Golden Bear; FIPRESCI Prize
The director of Madeinusa returns with another feature that examines a dark era of her country Peru's
past. Milk of Sorrow is "about unresolved, violent, personal and collective memory," says director
Claudia Llosa, and the film tells a story about a girl named Fausta, who carries the burden of this
memory: Fausta suffers from the "scared breast", an illness that was transmitted by her mother
Perpetua, who was raped during her pregnancy in the terror period. When she is pushed into an
extreme tension, her illness will cause haemorrhages. Perpetua dies, and Fausta is scared.

Yeni Ruya: 4 Sa. 16.00
Emek: 5 Su. 13.30

THE OTHER ONE *
L'AUTRE
Directors :
Patrick Mario Bernard & Pierre Trividic
Cast:
Dominique Blanc, Cyril Gueï, Peter Bonke
France, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 97'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Venice 2008 Volpi Cup: Best Actress (D. Blanc)
Anne-Marie has a peaceful break-up with her boyfriend Alex, whom she doesn't love anymore. He
would like to get married, she is into her freedom. She even encourages him to find somebody else.
They still meet, and she even sparks up a relationship with her old lover. However, upon learning that
another woman has come into Alex' life, she becomes insanely jealous, and her fear of growing old
pushes her to the verge of insanity. She never sees this woman but her paranoia is greater than
reality.

Rexx: 9 Th. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 16 Th. 13.30
Yeni Ruya: 18 Sa. 16.00

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC *
LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC
Director :
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast:
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
France, 1928
35 mm / B&W / 110'
Silent

Dreyer's final silent film, and the most famous of all Jeanne d'Arc films catapulted Dreyer to fame.
Based strictly on the trial records of the saint, the film details the last hours of Joan of Arc, and takes
place after she was captured by the English, depicting her trial, imprisonment, torture and execution.
Frequently appearing in "best film" lists, it is considered a landmark in cinema with its original
camerawork, use of extensive close-up, lack of make-up and striking compositions. Dreyer had said
that he "wanted to interpret a hymn to the triumph of the soul over life."

Atlas: 12 Su. 13.30

THE REAL SHAOLIN
Director :
Alexander Sebastien Lee
USA-China, 2008
Betacam / Colour / 89'
English-French-Mandarin; English & Turkish s.t.
The Shaolin Temple, the legendary birthplace of kung fu, the historical source of Zen Buddhism, the
centre of icons. Inspired by Jet Li's film The Shaolin Temple, two Chinese and two Westerners journey
to the Shaolin Temple in Central China, with the fantasy of becoming kung fu warriors. But, their path
is not an easy one. This moving, poetic and action-packed film follows nine-year-old Yuan Peng, the
farmer boy Zhu, the American teenager Orion and 29-year-old Frenchman Eric in a hidden world over
months of excruciating lessons and transforming experiences as they strive to achieve their own goals
and discover the difference between romanticised films and the hard truth.

Beyoglu: 7 Tu. 11.00
Beyoglu: 9 Th. 21.30

THE SALT OF LIFE
HAYATIN TUZU
Director :
Murat Düzgünoğlu
Cast:
Levent Ülgen, Görkem Arslan, Bülent Düzgünoğlu
Turkey, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 98'
Turkish; English s.t.

2008 Bursa Special Jury Prize
Known for his TV features and series, Murat Düzgünoğlu's debut cinematic feature centres on a widow
and her four adult children who are still too attached to her. Sixty-year-old Medine lives in Bitlis, in the
east of Turkey, with her three grown up children: an appointed imam, a worker in the tobacco factory,
and a student. She is exhausted to share their lives and troubles, but when her fourth child returns
from İstanbul unexpectedly, their problems start to hurt. In this far way and suffocating city, everyone
has a problem with pride, even from the injured cow to the imam in the mosque.

Emek: 14 Tu. 21.30

THE SECRET OF THE KELLS**
Director :
Tomm Moore
Cast:
Evan McGuire, Mick Lally, Christen Mooney
Ireland-France-Belgium, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 75'
English

The debut feature of animation artist Tomm Moore is the account of the adventures of the 12-year-old
Brendan who must fight with the Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete a book. The
life of Brendan, a boy who lives in an abbey, changes with the arrival of Brother Aidan and his cat, a
master illuminator who is running away from the Vikings with an unfinished book. To complete the
book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears, face mythical creatures in the enchanted forest,
and befriend a fairy wolf-girl. This is a beautiful action, magic and danger filled adventure animation.

City’s 11 Sa. 13.30
Rexx: 12 Su. 13.30
City’s: 18 Sa. 13.30

THE SHADOWLESS
GÖLGESİZLER
Director :
Ümit Ünal
Cast:
Selçuk Yöntem, Hakan Karahan, Arsen Gürzap, Taner Birsel, Altan Erkekli
Turkey, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 97'
Turkish; English s.t.

Adapted from the award-winning novel of Hasan Ali Topbaş, described as "the Kafka of the East" in
Germany, The Shadowless' cast consists mostly of stage actors. A barber working in İstanbul,
perhaps out of homesickness, longs to be "both here and far, far away". And one day, abruptly, he
takes off, and travels to far away, to a village that is nowhere and at no time. A village that is in the
hands of the Muhtar, the leader, but this is not your typical idyllic village. The villagers suffer from
weird disappearances and untimely deaths. Everyone suspects each other; the complexity of life
appals them. The barber observes all from afar.

Emek: 13 Mo. 13.30

THE SHORE
SON KUMSAL
Director :
Rüya Arzu Köksal
Cast:
Yunus Mollaahmetoğlu, Merve Aksoy, Turan Bahadır
Turkey, 2008
Betacam / Colour / 56'
Turkish; English s.t.

A beautiful summer day, joyous children at the Dultuk Beach in Vakfıkebir by the Black Sea coast of
north Turkey. People playing ball, dancing, lying on the beach, swimming… A few hundred metres
away, construction equipment dumping tons of rocks unloaded by lorries into the sea. In the other side
of the bay, jetties are being constructed to protect the highway from the waves. Tragicomic tales of
fishermen, who are looking for a new place after natural harbours and fishing jetties are torn down
because of the highway construction… This is the tale of the severance of the sea from people of the
Black Sea region with the pretext of a road construction.

Pera: 15 We. 21.30

THE TUNE
Director :
Bill Plympton
Cast:
Daniel Neiden, Maureen McElheron, Marty Nelson
USA, 1992
35 mm / Colour / 69'
English; Turkish s.t.

In Bill Plympton's first full-length feature film, a nerdy songwriter has given 47 minutes to write a hit or
lose his job and his sweetheart. Featuring ten songs that each pay homage to different forms of
American popular music –country, Elvis rock, surf pop– this hilarious comedy follows the adventures of
Del, after he takes a wrong exit from a cloverleaf and finds himself stranded in Flooby Nooby, a
strange and unfamiliar farming town. He learns from the even weirder townspeople the secret to good
songs: writing from the heart. Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, is convinced that The Tune
"would make Bart Simpson laugh his ass off."

Emek: 6 Mo. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 11 Sa. 13.30
Rexx: 17 Fr. 13.30

THE VIRGIN SPRING
JUNGFRUKÄLLAN
Director :
Ingmar Bergman
Cast:
Birgitta Pettersson, Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg
Sweden, 1960
35 mm / B&W / 89'
Swedish-German; English & Turkish s.t.
1961 Oscar Best Foreign Language Film
1960 Cannes Special Mention
1961 Golden Globe: Best Foreign Language Film
This is a faith, revenge and repentance tale based on a 13th century Swedish ballad, set at an age
when paganism gave way to Christianity. On her way to the church, Töre's Christian daughter Karin
meets two herdsmen and a small boy. The herdsmen rape and kill her, and then, unknowingly, seek
shelter at Töre's house. Töre's revenge is as brutal as the act itself. This is Bergman's first major
collaboration with the legendary cinematographer Sven Nykvist.

Atlas: 4 Sa. 13.30
Rexx: 6 Mo. 13.30

THE VISITOR
MUUKALAINEN
Director:
Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää
Cast:
Pavel Liska, Vitali Bobrov, Emilia Ikäheimo, Jorma Tommila
Finlandiya-Finland-UK-Germany-Estonia, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 104'
Finnish; English & Turkish s.t.

A powerful and transcendent story of mystery and betrayal, love and conflicting loyalties, a tragic
myth, a near-silent film that owes much to Tarkovsky… A young boy lives with his mother on a farm
surrounded by a deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy
visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy's
only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a note from the
father and a bullet in his side. Reluctantly, mother and son offer the stranger refuge.

Rexx: 5 Su. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 6 Mo. 21.30
Atlas: 10 Fr. 16.00




THE VOYAGE OF NÂZIM HİKMET TO CUBA
NÂZIM'IN KÜBA SEYAHATİ
Directors :
Çağrı Kınıkoğlu & Gloria Rolando
Turkey-Cuba, 2008
HD / Colour / 68'
Turkish-Spanish; English s.t.

The great poet of equality, freedom, and the Turkish language, Nâzım Hikmet had visited Cuba in
1961, on the invitation of his friend, the Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen. A member of the World Peace
Council then, Nâzım went to Cuba in May 1961 for solidarity and also to observe the enthusiasm and
the progress of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Through the testimonies of Cuban intellectuals whom
Nâzım had met in this joyous voyage, and through other documents and archive materials, such as
the recording of Nâzım's poem the "Havana Interview", the film discovers how the Cuban Revolution
influenced Nâzım and how Nâzım influenced the Cuban intellectuals. This is a story of compatriot
brotherhood and hope…

Pera: 17 Fr. 21.30

THE WATCHER
BEKÇİ
Director:
Özcan Tekdemir
Cast:
Emin Tuğra Baykul, Ziya Hepbir, Zeynep Gül
Turkey, 2008
DVD / Colour / 78'
Turkish; English s.t.

Having directed many short films and music videos, Özcan Tekdemir's fourth feature-length film is a
very low-budget production. Dursun is a man working as security guard at a housing complex, a man
who has waited all his life. He has long ago cut all relations with the outside world; he knowingly
sleeps with an HIV+ prostitute. Years later, he is laid off because of his illness, so he chooses to go to
death, instead of waiting for it. But at the final instant, he kills instead of being killed. He now
understands that the things he wants to wait for have changed; from now on he will be waiting for
other people to die. Waiting has never been so bloody. In time, not even the murders he commits give
him pleasure.

Pera: 18 Sa. 11.00

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
Directors :
Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr
USA, 2009
HD / Colour / 85'
English; Turkish s.t.

2009 Berlin Panorama Audience Award
The opening film of the Berlin Film Festival Panorama Document Section was hugely uplifting for the
audience crowd who was unpleased with the general state of affairs of the world. As the title suggests,
"The Yes Men" are a group that interprets events as they should have been, not approving them as
they have been. They apologise publicly for especially environment issues, acting as the spokesmen
for important government agencies or giant companies. The two American members of the group,
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (not their real names of course) have directed and "acted" in this
documentary that followed the first instalment The Yes Men (2005).

Beyoglu: 6 Mo. 19.00
Beyoglu: 8 We. 13.30
Beyoglu: 10 Fr. 21.30

THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
Director :
Sydney Pollack
Cast:
Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Suzannah York, Gig Young
USA, 1969
35 mm / Colour / 120'
English; Turkish s.t.

1969 Oscar Best Supporting Actor (G. Young)
1970 Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actor (G. Young)
1971 BAFTA Best Supporting Actress (S. York)
1969 New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actress (J. Fonda)
1969 USA National Board of Review: Best Film
Nominated for the Oscars in nine categories, this film is set in the dark Great Depression days, when
dance marathons sometimes dragged on for weeks and were a popular way of making money. Jane
Fonda plays Gloria, a bitter young woman paired up with Robert, and is determined to win the $1500
prize, however will the prize be worth the price?

Atlas: 11 Sa. 19.00
THREE MONKEYS **
ÜÇ MAYMUN
Director :
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast:
Hatice Aslan, Gürkan Aydın, Yavuz Bingöl, Ahmet Rıfat Şungar
Turkey-France-Italy, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 109'
Turkish; English s.t.

2008 Cannes Best Director
2008 Haifa Best Film
2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards: Best Director
2008 Turkey Turkish Film Critics' Association Awards: Best Director; Best Editing; Best Actress (H.
Aslan); Best Supporting Actor (A. Rıfat Şungar)
A family dislocated when small failings blow up into lies battles against the odds to stay together by
covering up the truth…
In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities, the family chooses to ignore the truth. But does playing
"Three Monkeys" invalidate the truth of its existence?

Beyoglu: 15 We. 19.00

THREE WISE MEN
KOLME VIISASTA MIESTÄ
Director :
Mika Kaurismäki
Cast:
Kari Heiskanen, Pertti Sveholm, Timo Torikka
Finland, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 98'
Finnish; English & Turkish s.t.

Three middle-aged men, perhaps wise, but losers in their own eyes, get together at a karaoke bar in
Finland over a long Christmas Eve evening. Matti the cop has just become a father but his wife says
it's not his. Ailing of cancer, the photographer Erkki is the real father of Matti's baby girl. The actor
Rauno's ex-wife has just died and his son hates him. We witness these three anti-heroes reveal that
they're disgrace to masculinity as their subtly humorous conversation swings from complete honesty to
impromptu confessions and hilarious revelations, all the while anticipating a Christmas miracle.

Yeni Ruya: 5 Su. 13.30
Yeni Ruya: 7 Tu. 11.00
Rexx: 8 We. 19.00

TOKYO SONATA
Director :
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast:
Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Haruka Igawa
Japan-The Netherlands-Hong Kong, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 119'
Japanese; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Cannes Un Certain Regard - Jury Prize
2008 Mar del Plata Best Director
Director Kurosawa goes back before his much acclaimed Bright Future, "back in time when there is
such a thing as a family, if just barely functioning." The father of a seemingly ordinary but
disintegrating Japanese family loses his job, but conceals the truth, wandering the streets, keeping up
appearances. The eldest son in college hardly returns home; the youngest son furtively takes piano
lessons without telling his parents; and the mother cannot keep the family together. A contemporary
fable of alienation, the chilling portrait of a family caught between tragedy and irrational comedy.

Rexx: 11 Sa. 13.30
Atlas: 12 Su. 19.00
Yeni Ruya: 14 Tu. 11.00

TONIGHT **
NUIT DE CHIEN
Director :
Werner Schroeter
Cast:
Pascal Greggory, Bruno Todeschini, Amira Casar
France-Germany-Portugal, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 110'
French; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Venice Special Golden Lion
Tonight is the disturbing tale of a lonely man. Adapted from Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti's
novel, the film sticks to the original work's grandiose magical realism, sense of humour and most of all,
the question of man and war. The man is Ossorio and he has fought a war against a fascist party in
the mountains. When he returns, exhausted, with a crowd of refugees and defeated soldiers, to meet
the woman he loves, he finds out that everything has changed. A violent militia terrorizes the city.
During the ultimate night, everyone tries to save their hide. Hopelessly.

Beyoglu: 5 Su. 11.00
Rexx: 7 Tu. 19.00
Atlas: 9 Th. 21.30

TONY MANERO
Director :
Pablo Larraín
Cast:
Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales
Chile-Brazil, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 98'
Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Havana Best Actor (A. Castro); Grand Coral-First Prize
2008 Santiago Best Film
2009 Rotterdam Hollanda Association of Dutch Film Critics KNF Award
Raul Peralta is fifty years old, and obsessed with Tony Manero, John Travolta's character in Saturday
Night Fever. Raul leads a small group of dancers regularly performing at a bar, and every Saturday
evening, he imitates his idol on stage. Then one day, the national television announces a Tony
Manero impersonating contest. It's 1978, Chile is under Pinochet' dictatorship. While his dancing
partners are persecuted by the secret police, he's urged to commit a series of crimes in order to be
more like Tony Manero. This is a story about loss, identity, obsession, and tyranny.

Emek: 13 Mo. 11.00
Yeni Ruya: 14 Tu. 21.30
Rexx: 16 Th. 19.00

TREELESS MOUNTAIN
Director :
So Yong Kim
Cast:
Hee Yeon Kim, Song Hee Kim, Soo Ah Lee
South Korea-USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 89'
Korean; English & Turkish s.t.
2008 Dubai Best Film
2008 Tokyo Filmex Special Jury Prize
2008 Pusan NETPAC Prize
2009 Berlin Prize of the Ecumenical Jury-Forum
Bright-eyed 6-year-old Jin lives with her mother and chubby little sister Bin in a cramped apartment in
Seoul. When their mother decides to go look for their estranged father, Jin and Bin are forced to stay
with their alcoholic Big Aunt in a small town for the summer. But when Big Aunt loses her house and
their mother fails to return, the sisters are forced to move to their grandparents' farm where they
eventually come to learn the importance of family bonds. Inspired by the director's own childhood
memories and the universal fear of abandonment, Treeless Mountain is a subtle film with a beautifully
crafted visual approach.

Beyoglu: 16 Th. 11.00
Rexx: 17 Fr. 19.00
Atlas: 18 Sa. 13.30

TROUBLE THE WATER
Directors :
Tia Lessin & Carl Deal
USA, 2008
DVCAM / Colour / 94'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)
2008 Full Frame Documentary Festival Grand Jury Award
2008 Silverdocs Special Mention
"It's going to be a day to remember," Kimberley Rivers Roberts says, and it was indeed. Directed and
produced by the producers of Bowling for Columbine, Oscar nominee Trouble the Water is an insider's
view to Hurricane Katrina, through the eyes of two survivors, Kimberley, an aspiring rap artist, and her
husband, trapped in the city. At once horrifying and exhilarating, she turns her new video camera on
herself and her friends and neighbours, as they struggle against the raging floodwater and then seize
a chance for a new beginning.

Beyoglu: 6 Mo. 11.00
Beyoglu: 7 Tu. 19.00

TROUBLED WATER
DE USYNLIGE
Director:
Erik Poppe
Cast:
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Trine Dyrholm
Norway-Sweden, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 115'
Norwagian; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Haugesund (Norway) Honourable Mention; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
2008 Hamptons Audience Award; The Golden Starfish-Best Narrative Feature
The director of Hawaii, Oslo and Schpaa returns four years later with another impressive drama about
morality and forgiveness. Jan Thomas is released from prison after having served eight years. Being a
divinely gifted organist, he gets a deputyship in a church. He decides not to tell her about his past to
Anna, the priest, but then Agnes comes to the church. She recognizes the organist as the young boy
who was convicted of the murder of her son.

Yeni Ruya: 12 Su. 21.30
Atlas: 13 Mo. 13.30
Rexx: 14 Tu. 19.00

TULPAN
Director :
Sergey Dvortsevoy
Cast:
Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Samal Yeslyamova, Ondasyn Besikbasov
Germany-Kazakhstan-Poland-Russia-Switzerland, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 100'
Kazakh-Russian; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Cannes Un Certain Regard Award
2008 Cottbus Best Director
2008 Dubai Best Actor (A. Kuchinchirekov)
2008 Karlovy Vary East of West Award; NETPAC Award
2008 Montréal Best Film
2008 Tokyo Grand Prix
2008 Zurich Best Film
The first fiction film of celebrated Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy, Tulpan is a delightful
comedy with wonderful characters and incredible array of animals. After completing his naval service,
young and handsome Asa travels back to his yurt in the steppes where his sister lives. He is eager to
get married first before he can become a shepherd himself, and his only hope is Tulpan. But Tulpan
doesn't like him because she thinks that his ears are too big. Still, Asa doesn't give up and he
continues to dream and struggle…

Yeni Ruya: 11 Sa. 11.00
Atlas: 12 Su. 16.00
Rexx: 13 Mo. 11.00

TWO LINES
İKİ ÇİZGİ
Director :
Selim Evci
Cast:
Gülçin Santırcıoğlu, Kaan Keskin, Perihan Kurtoğlu
Turkey, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 97'
Turkish; English s.t.

Known for his short films and documentaries, Selim Evci's debut feature that he wrote, produced,
directed and edited, premiered in the Critic's Week at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. "Initially a movie
that provides a rather aloof portrait of Istanbul with its unique metropolitan formation," according to
Evci, the film tells the story of two lovers who seek a direction, unbeknownst that they are lost.
Businesswoman Selin lives together with her boyfriend Mert, a photographer. When the outside world
slowly crowds in on them, they dare to go on a car trip to the south, but the journey does not unravel
as they planned.

Emek: 14 Tu. 13.30




TWO-LEGGED HORSE
ASBE DU-PA
Director :
Samira Makhmalbaf
Cast:
Ziya Mirza Mohamad, Haron Ahad, Gol Gotai Karimi
Iran, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 101'
Persian-Uzbek; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Flanders Best Music
2008 San Sebastian Special Jury Prize
Inspired from an idea by her father Mokhsen, who also wrote the script, acclaimed director Samira
Makhmalbaf returns with a lyrical film set not in Iran but in Afghanistan that explores the limits of an
unusual friendship, "the edge of human tolerance", and ultimately sacrifice. Following a tough contest,
the extremely poor Mirvais wins an unusual job: carrying a disabled boy on his back like a horse. It is
not long before that the young master starts to abuse Mirvais, making him race with donkeys on the
street, bathing him… But it's never enough.

Atlas: 14 Tu. 16.00
Yeni Ruya: 15 We. 19.00
Rexx: 16 Th. 21.30

TYSON
Director :
James Toback
USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 90'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Cannes Un Certain Regard Knockout Award
A legendary and uniquely controversial international athletic icon… A figure conjuring radical
questions of race and class… One of sport's most fascinating figures, Mike Tyson is as iconic as
Muhammad Ali, although not as elegant or noble, but more profoundly tragic. And Tyson explores
Tyson through interviews, archival footage and photographs in this shocking, funny, hair-raising and
brutally honest biopic, from growing up in Brooklyn through his entry into the world of boxing, his
tortured marriage, his fortunes won and lost.

Beyoglu: 7 Tu. 21.30
Beyoglu: 9 Th. 13.30

UNDERGROUND
MERDİVEN ALTI
Director:
Nur Akalın
Cast:
Kaan Yılmaz, Deha Özer Şenay, Gökalp Arıkan
Turkey, 2009
DVD / Colour / 83'
Turkish; English st.

Nur Akalın's second fiction feature is dedicated to the great composer and bağlama player Özer
Şenay who died in 2007. The film follows Sinan, who is pursued by the police because of incidents he
has witnessed, like the death of his boss at the construction site he works, and an accident his close
friend suffers. Sinan fears that he will be sent to complete his military service if he is caught, but
nevertheless, he goes on an adventurous journey in the underbelly of Istanbul, without any
identification, through bookers, boxers, bartenders, in order to find his older brother and sister.

Beyoglu: 16 Th. 13.30

UNMADE BEDS
Director :
Alexis Dos Santos
Cast:
Déborah François, Fernando Tielve, Michiel Huisman
UK, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 93'
English-French-Spanish; English & Turkish s.t.

Competing at Sundance in January 2009, Dos Santos' second feature film after his debut Glue is a
visually striking, bittersweet story of love, loss, identity, sex and friendship set in cosmopolitan East
London. Axl, a naïve Spanish teen comes to London to find his father who had abandoned him as a
child. But instead, he finds there an underground squat, or communal dwelling, filled with an
assortment of colourful, multi-cultural, free spirited characters. Among them is Vera, a beautiful
Belgian girl whose faith in love and destiny has recently been destroyed. Axl and Vera's paths cross at
a club, "Lost and Found" where rock bands take the stage.

Yeni Ruya: 10 Fr. 21.30
City’s: 11 Sa. 21.30
Emek: 15 We. 13.30

V FOR VENDETTA
Director :
James McTeigue
Cast:
Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Natalie Portman, Stephen Fry
USA-UK-Germany, 2005
35 mm / Colour / 132'
English; Turkish s.t.

After a nuclear war has ravaged Britain, a fascist party called Norsefire rises to power. A freedom
fighter, "V", an anarchist hero in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent campaign to bring
down the government and start a revolution. But he also pursues a personal vendetta. Written and
produced by the Matrix Trilogy's Wachowski brothers, and adapted by Alan Moore's comic book series
that places fascism against anarchism, V for Vendetta's future-retro look, references to the political
atmosphere of today, historical events and totalitarian icons such as Orwell's 1984 and the Third Reich
swiftly carried the film to a cult status.

City’s: 4 Sa. 16.00
Rexx: 8 We. 16.00
Yeni Ruya: 9 Th. 21.30

VISITORS
ZİYARETÇİLER
Director :
Melis Birder
USA-Turkey, 2009
Betacam / Colour / 65'
English; Turkish s.t.

The United States constituting 5% of the world's population, houses 25% of the world's inmates. Only
in New York State there are 70 prisons and most of them are located in remote towns and villages.
Every weekend about 800 women and children, mostly African Americans and Latinos, travel for long
hours to visit their loved ones. The whole trip usually lasts for 24 hours. Visitors follows the coordinator
of one of the prison buses, Denise, who has been visiting her husband for 10 years every weekend.
The director -a former prison visitor herself- reflects on the struggle of this unique culture living at the
intersection of confinement and the free world.

Beyoglu: 15 We. 16.00

VIVA ZAPATA!
Director :
Elia Kazan
Cast:
Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn, Alan Reed, Jean Peters
USA, 1952
35 mm / B&W / 113'
English-Spanish; Turkish s.t.

1952 Oscar Best Supporting Actor (A. Quinn)
1952 Cannes Best Actor (M. Brando)
1952 BAFTA Best Foreign Actor (M. Brando)
Emiliano Zapata is one of the most revered national heroes of Mexico, one of the leaders of the 1910
revolution. This most famous biopic written by John Steinbeck depicts him as a romantic, idealistic,
cynical, stubborn charismatic leader. Viva Zapata! chronicles his rural upbringing in 1900s, rebellion
against the tyrannical president Porfirio Diaz with his brother Eufemio and Pancho Villa, and his death.

City’s: 18 Sa. 11.00
Atlas: 19 Su. 11.00

WELCOME*
Director :
Philippe Lioret
Cast:
Vincent Lindon, Fırat Ayverdi, Derya Ayverdi
France, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 116'
French-Kurdish-Persian-English; English & Turkish s.t.

2009 Berlin-Panorama Europa Cinema Label
A modern age Romeo-Juliet story with the English Channel between the lovers, who are both played
by Turkish actors. Bilal, a Kurdish boy from Mosul, has travelled for three months to join his girlfriend,
Mina in London. But he is stopped on the French side of the Channel. Having decided to swim across,
Bilal goes to the local swimming pool to train where he meets Simon, a swimming instructor. To
impress his wife, Simon decides to risk everything by taking Bilal under his wing

Emek: 4 Sa. 13.30
City’s: 5 Su. 19.00
Emek: 7 Tu. 16.00

WHAT ABOUT LONDON
PEKİ YA LONDRA
Director :
Rıza Kıraç
Turkey, 2008
DVD / Colour / 56'
Turkish-English; English & Turkish s.t.

Once upon a time there was a pub named Bishop's House on the corner of Bishop's Way Street in
East London. Then this pub became home to young people coming from different countries around the
world. These young people from Northern Ireland, France, Sudan, Australia, The Philippines, Brazil,
Turkey and many other countries around the world, built an authentic communal life with the young
English people in this pub, and called themselves the Residents of Bishop's House. Writer, short film
and documentary director Rıza Kıraç's latest film What About London also provides a panorama of
young Turkish immigrants and their strife to exist in Europe, while telling the story of the unique
solidarity of these young people.

Pera: 16 Th. 16.00

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?
Director :
Morgan Spurlock
Cast:
Morgan Spurlock, George Bush, Dick Cheney
USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 96'
English; Turkish s.t.

2008 Melbourne Most Popular Documentary
Director Morgan Spurlock returns with another funny and engaging film after his high cholesterol
international hit Super Size Me. Deciding that the world should be saved by one lone man after all, like
in movies, Spurlock sets off to do what CIA or the FBI have failed to do: find the world's most wanted
man. And why? Because he wants to make the world a safer place for his soon-to-be-born child. First
he needs to learn where he came from and who he is. So Spurlock follows Osama bin Laden's trail,
encountering rational and radical faces in the world's most dangerous places.

Beyoglu: 10 Fr. 19.00
Beyoglu: 12 Su. 13.30

WHITE NIGHT WEDDING
BRÚDGUMINN
Director :
Baltasar Kormákur
Cast:
Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Iceland, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 96'
Iceland; English & Turkish s.t.

Baltasar Kormákur whose dark crime film Jar City competed for the Golden Tulip in 2008 returns with
a comedy loosely adapted from Chekhov's Ivanov and that was chosen as Iceland's official entry for
the best foreign language film Oscar derby. This year's biggest hit in Iceland has middle-aged
professor Jon in focus, who is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-
students half his age. But there are a few obstacles: his cranky mother-in-law-to-be, his extremely
drunk best man, and his emotional first wife. Moreover, it's the white nights, never dark. When the
guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet…

Rexx: 5 Su. 19.00
Emek: 7 Tu. 19.00
Emek: 10 Fr. 13.30

WRONG ROSARY
UZAK İHTİMAL
Director:
Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
Cast:
Nadir Sarıbacak, Görkem Yeltan, Ersan Uysal
Turkey, 2009
35 mm / Colour / 90'
Turkey; English s.t.

2009 Rotterdam Tiger Award (Best Film)
First Turkish film to compete at Rotterdam Film Festival, director Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun's debut fiction
feature Wrong Rosary was lauded by the Rotterdam Jury as "a uniquely creative film." The film tells
the story of the events unfolding as a muezzin, a prospective nun and an elderly Istanbul bookseller in
Galata, İstanbul meet, and it follows an untold love story -the love between a muezzin and a nun- and
their friendship with an aristocratic book dealer.

Emek:12 Su. 19.00

YOUSSOU N'DOUR: I BRING WHAT I LOVE
Director:
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Cast:
Youssou N'dour, Fathy Salama, Kabou Gueye
USA, 2008
35 mm / Colour / 102'
French-English; English & Turkish s.t.

One of Africa's most prominent musical figures, a fervent promoter of human rights, "the voice of
Africa", Youssou N, at the height of his career, became frustrated by the negative perception of his
Muslim faith and composed "Egypt", a deeply personal album dedicated to Islam. However, the album
quickly became the centre of controversy especially in his homeland, Senegal, and was deemed
blasphemous. Combining footage of religious rituals, concert performances and production of the
album, this musical journey chronicles N's challenges over the album, its universal message and
N'Dour's voice of hope and tolerance.

Beyoglu: 7 Tu. 16.00
Beyoglu: 9 Th. 19.00

ZIFT
Director :
Javor Gardev
Cast:
Zachary Baharov, Tanya Ilieva, Vladimir Penev
Bulgaria, 2008
35 mm / B&W / 92'
Bulgarian; English & Turkish s.t.

2008 Moscow Best Director (Silver George)
Bulgaria's Oscar submission, and taking its name from the Bulgarian slang for the word "shit", Zift is a
crime film made in the spirit of film noir, though focusing on a criminal instead of a private detective
battling criminals. The Moth is released from prison after 20 years to find himself in a new and alien
world: the cold atmosphere of communist Sofia of the 60s. During the one day the film unfolds, Moth
tries to make amends with his past, but is tortured, chased and forced to listen to many strange stories
by agents, medics, barflies, outcasts, gravediggers…

Yeni Ruya: 13 Mo. 19.00
Atlas: 14 Tu. 13.30
Rexx: 16 Th. 16.00