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BABAMI HIRSIZLAR CALDI
by Esen Isik
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Meriç, a five-year-old boy, lives with his family in a suburb of Istanbul. He witnesses how his father is being abducted by the secret police. His father has been reported «missing» ever since. The little boy cannot cope with this traumatic experience and begins to search desperately for his father. Yet nobody can answer his burning questions. More and more, Meriç isolates himself. In his imagination, his father escaped from the abductors and hides in the cellar. Meriç must keep his secret. For his family, life without their father becomes increasingly difficult and they decide to return to Kurdistan. For Meriç, moving away means leaving the cellar and his beloved father. His whole world collapses about him.
Credits
Year: 1999
Country: CH
Running Time: 24 Min.
Director: Esen Isik
Author: Esen Isik
Producer: Karin Koch
Executive Producer: Karin Koch
Co-Producer: Pan Filmcikik, Ali Akdeniz
Camera: Pierre Mennel
Editor: Thomas Isler
Sound: Yakup Yilmaz
Music: Cihat Askin
Gaffer: Ernst Brunner
Costumes: Nergis Caliskan/Ferah Dogan
Set Designer: Veli Kahraman
Production Manager: Menderes Demir
Cast: Alican Altun, Füsun Demirel, Nurettin Sen, Dogaç Yildiz, Ragip Altun, Elif Seda Erol
Awards Nachwuchspreis, Suissimage 1999
Spezial-Preis der Jury, International Kurzfilmfestival Ankara 1999
Goldener Fisch, Filmfluss Letten
Léopards de demain, Festival Internazionale del film Locarno, 1999
Studienprämie, BAK
2nd Price Ex Aequo, Corto Imola Festival, 1999
Grand Prix Europeen, Images en région, Festival de Vendôme,
Grand Prix de Clermont, 2000
Bester Kurzfilm, Schweizerischer Filmpreis, 2000
Grand Prix, Short Film Festival of Drama
2. Preis des Fernsehworkshop Entwicklungspolitik Köln
Festivals Istanbul Film Festival, 1998
Solothurner Filmtage,1999
Cinéma Mediterranéen Montpellier, 1999
Imola Corto Festival, 1999
Court Metrage de Metz, 1999
Internatioinal Short Film Festival Trevignano, 1999
International Short Film Festival Tampere, 1999
International Short Film Festival Rio, 1999
International Short Film Festival Montecatini, 1999
International Film Festival Montevideo, 1999
Kolkata International Film Festival, 1999
Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival, 1999
Rencontres Médias Nord-Sud Geneve, 1999
Hong Kong International Film Festival, 1999
Ankara International Film Festival, 1999
Prix Europa Berlin, 1999
Court, cest Court! Murs, 1999
Medfilm Festival Rom, 1999
Festival del Film Siena, 1999
Festival Internazionale del cinema Locarno, 1999
Festival Internacional de Cinema do Algarve, 2000
Flying Broom International Womens Film Festival Ankara, 2000
Aye-Aye Festival Nancy, 2000
TV Festival Merano, 2000
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, 2000
Short Fiction St. Petersburg, 2000
Short Film Festival Athen, 2000
Short Film Festival Iran, 2000
Short Film Festival Krakow, 2000
Festivals of Festivals Arhons, 2000
Short Film Festival Brà, 2000
Festival International de Films de Femmes Créteil, 2000
Festival du Film Vendôme, 2000
Busan International Film Festival, 2001
International Short Film Festival Tunis, 2001
Festival delle donne Turin, 2001
Festival dal Film Surrein, 2001
InCurt Festival of Short Film Barcelona, 2001
Isfahan International Festival of Films for Children & Young, 2001
Archepelago Rom, 2003
Hungarian Film Inst. Bucarest, 2003
Swiss American Film Festival New York, 2003
