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uses non-professional actors and improvised dialogue in exploring
the shifting boundaries between documentary and fiction.
In 2000, he completed his first feature, Dokfa nai Meuman, a
documentary that has been screened at many international
festivals and received enthusiastic reviews and awards as well as
being listed among the best films of the year 2000 by Film
Comment and the Village Voice. He is active in promoting
experimental and independent films through Kick the Machine,
the company he founded in 1999. He is currently working on
several video projects and a new feature, Tropical Malady.
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TURKEY
The Crossing
Turkey, 2010, 95 minutes
Director: Selim Demirdelen
Screenplay: Selim Demirdelen
Camera: Aydin Sarioglu
Producer: Turker Korkmaz
Cast: Güven Kirac, Sezin Akbasogullari
The hero of Turkish writer/director Selim Demirdelen's psychological
drama is a painfully shy middle-aged accountant named Güven
(Güven Kirac), who measures out his life in equal portions of work
and family: the highlight of each weekday seems to be an
afternoon phone call from his small daughter, assuring her father
that she's home safe from school. But Güven has a secret, we
soon learn: he has no daughter, no wife, no family at all. In the
wake of tragedy, this bulky, quiet man in a buttoned-up cardigan
has constructed an elaborate domestic fantasy to help him cope.
Demirdelen enriches this portrait of loneliness with those of two of
Güven's co-workers, a prickly young man named Haydar (Umut
Kurt) and a struggling young mother, Arzu (Sezin Akbasogullari),
recently separated from her alcoholic husband. Then there’s