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Adrian Sitaru Mara Adina Director Adrian Sitaru Producer Mara Adina Screenwriter Adrian Sitaru Based on the book Death of a Salaryman by Fiona Campbell Language English Genre Black comedy Format HD Running time 100 mins Target audience Young audience interested in reality TV, family life, male camaraderie, underground gambling, love, sex and the source material Budget € 4.780.000 Contact Mara Adina Vernon Films 110 Deptford High Street London SE8 4NS UK Tel: +44 758 593 8274 Email: vernonfilms@gmail.com www.vernonfilms.co.uk 2012 NPP 9
Dust Cloth Toz Bezi Ret Film, Turkey Two cleaning women, trapped between the Istanbul ghettoes and its bright lights, try to understand life and survive in their own individual ways. Synopsis The lives of Nesrin (30) and Hatun (37) run like a wagon between the ghettoes of Istanbul and its city lights. The cleaning ladies’ routine revolves around leaving their homes, entering the houses of others, cleaning these private spaces, and returning back home again. While Nesrin tries to find her run-away husband, she dreams a better life for her daughter Asmin (5). While Hatun tries to exist within her compulsory marriage to waiter Şero (45), and with her not-so-promising son Oktay (13), she sees hope in Asmin, a daughter that she never had, and dreams of buying a house just like the ones she works in... Director’s Statement It was one of the clearest memories from my childhood. We came to Istanbul to visit our relatives. First stop was my aunt and one day I travelled from her one-roomed flat to a three-roomed one. This was the first time that I encountered the private space of the middle-classes. When we were there, I touched objects that I had never seen before, and I was astonished. We were alone and I felt that I was so close to everything. I could even lie on the bed, but there was an imaginary wall that prevented me from doing it. This represented a distance that I knew intuitively from my indigent life. Being annoyed about this sense of distance, my mum gave me a secret when we returned. The secret was that my aunt was a cleaning woman and I should not tell this to anyone. After my college years (where I met with leftist ideology) I retained a sense of class resentment. When I started working, the conversation of my colleagues would turn to their problems with their cleaning women, and I was reminded of this feeling again. They hired a cleaning woman because they saw it as a symbol of the class to which they wished to belong, and these long conversations became the expression of this thought. I thought a lot about how to tell this story of my aunt. First, I looked for answers from cultural, political, and ethical perspectives. But the point I reached was a feeling of shame. Not shame about these women of my family, it was rather the shame of feeling this shame. So I decided to write the story, knowing that it is the only way to recover. Director’s profile Ahu Öztürk studied philosophy and cinema. In 2004, she directed her first documentary Chest. In 2010, she participated in the Tales from Kars film project with her short film Open Wound which has been shown in many international film festivals such as Rotterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Sarajevo, Beirut. Dust Cloth is her first feature film project and received the CNC Award at the Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop in Istanbul (April 2012) as well as the EAVE Scholarship award at Cinelink Co-Production Market in Sarajevo (July 2012). Production company Ret Film was founded in 2012 by Çiğdem Mater and Nesra Gürbüz. The company aims to produce independent features, documentaries and shorts. Ret Film aims to support young directors with new ways/styles of narration. Dust Cloth is the company’s debut feature film project. Current status Pre-production. Aims at the NPP Looking for co-producers, funds, sales agents and distributors (cinema & TV) and script development. 10 NPP 2012
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