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Story
Out of work and freshly divorced, Selim returns to his home town of Izmir. He refuses to make plans for the future and roams around aimlessly. Wherever he goes, he is confronted by the past: in his family and with former classmates, he meets an ex-girlfriend and an old acquaintance from his days in the army. When after an accident in the harbour a caustic stench pervades the town, many of the inhabitants leave. Selim stays – and recognizes ever more clearly what opportunities life has to offer. The Gulf can be seen as a parable on the current situation in Turkish society and asks the question how much hope is left for individuals in a world of ever-present apocalyptic scenarios.
Director
EMRE YEKSAN (*1981) studied film sciences at the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He worked as a producer in Paris and in 2008 moved back to Istanbul. The Gulf is his directorial debut.Trailer
Info
Körfez
Fiction Feature
Turkish
Freihafen | FF2017
Turkey, Germany, Greece
2017
114 min
OV with English subtitles
Emre Yeksan
Emre Yeksan, Ahmet Büke
Ulaş Tuna Astepe, Ahmet Melih Yılmaz, Serpil Gül, Müfit Kayacan, Merve Dizdar
Anna Maria Aslanoglu; Asli Filiz; Dirk Engelhardt; Maria Drandaki
Jakub Giza
Selda Taşkın
Ekin Fil
Serdar Yilmaz
Istos film; Bir Film; Kundschafter Filmproduktion; Homemade Film
Anna Maria Aslanoğlu, Istos film: annamaria@istosfilm.com
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