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NEW DIRECTIONS
A quiet and visually
beautiful Turkish film
with a dark political
undercurrent
Özcan Alper (b. 1975, Turkey) has
worked as an assistant director and
production manager on a number of
films since 1997. He has previously
made two short documentaries and a
short film. Autumn is his first
feature film.
Selected filmography
Autumn 2008
Rhapsody and Melancholy in Tokai City
(short doc.) 2005
Voyage in the Time With a Scientist
(short doc.) 2002
Grandmother (short) 2001
AUTUMN
Sonbahar
Yusuf is released after ten years in prison,
incarcerated because of his active participation
for the political left during his university
days in Istanbul. After a longstanding hunger
strike his lungs are ruined, leaving him with
just a short time left to live. Upon his release
he returns to his mother‘s place in a mountainous
area by the Black Sea in the north.
The Soviet socialist ideal society has dissolved
during his ten years away, and is now exporting
prostitutes to his home area. He embarks
upon a quiet friendship with Eka, a Georgian
woman trapped in Turkey, earning money
in her own way to support a young daughter
back home. To Yusef it is late autumn in life
in a landscape approaching winter. Autumn is
a quiet and visually beautiful film marked by
wistfulness. It is also a story complimenting
that of The Storm, which portrays precisely the
struggle for political freedom of speech in the
Istanbul of the 1990‘s. bb
Turkey, Germany 2008 Director Özcan ALPER Script Özcan ALPER Camera Feza CALDIRAN Cast Onur SAYALAK, Cihan CAMKERTE,
Megi KOBALADZE Prod. Filmfabrik, Kuzey Film Sales Media Luna, info@medialuna-entertainment.de Language Turkish, Georgian,
Armenian Subtitles English Duration 99 min Format 35mm
CITY IN RED
Ciudad en Rojo
In Santiago de Cuba, one of the revolution‘s
most bloody battlegrounds, there are daily
newspaper reports of casualties under the
codeword Bertillón 166. In the late 1950‘s
revolutionary Cuba this concept functioned
as the peoples protection against censorship.
Where the police‘s attempts to subdue the
rebellion led to intense battles and skirmishes,
the city was painted red in blood. Over
the course of 24 hours, we follow the rebels‘
struggle against Fulgencio Batista‘s brutal
military dictatorship, in increasing bursts
of escalating violence. The Cuban director
Rebeca Chávez‘s debut film is about guerrilla
warfare in a city landscape, where soldiers
and civilians walk side by side. The film is
based on José Soler Puig‘s popular novel
Bertillón 166. No doubt owing to Chavez‘ longtime
career as a documentary filmmaker,
City in Red is also documentary-like in its
form, and explores the experiences of individuals
living in a war zone. In this manner, the
film manages to create a historical account of
Cuba‘s revolutionary past, while still retaining
a current cinematic expression. red
This film is part of the Cuba Retrospective.
Cuba 2008 Director Rebeca CHAVEZ Script Xenia RIVERY Camera Ángel ALDERETE Cast Diana Rosa PÉREZ, Elena ROSALES
Prod. ICAIC Sales ICAIC, internacional@icaic.cu Language Spanish Subtitles English Duration 90 min Format 35mm
NEW DIRECTIONS
Santiago de Cuba is
painted red in its peoples
blood
Rebeca Chávez is one of only a very few
female directors of feature films from
Cuba. She draws on her experiences
from making documentaries in her first
feature film Ciudad en Rojo.
Selected filmography
Ciudad en Rojo 2009
Antes del 59 (doc.) 2004
Entre el arte y la cultura (doc.) 2004
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