CATEGORY
2016-Panorama
A Dream School in the Steppes
Güliz Sağlam
Turkey, 2014, 55′, Turkish
Photography: İlhan Berke, Frank Massholder, Güliz Sağlam
Editing: Güliz Sağlam Özlem Sarıyıldız
Producer: A. İlker Berke
Salhane, 15.10.2016 Saturday, 16.00 – 18.00
Synopsis: The passion to describe every moment of one’s life through images… Could it give the power to struggle against all kinds of obstacles to someone fascinated by cinema? Ahmet Uluçay, well-known by his idiosyncratic short films and his only feature film “Boats out of Watermelon Rinds”, had to face the fact that he had a brain tumor, and had his first operation 12 years ago. This documentary film, in accordance with Uluçay’s life between reality and dream, draws us from the half-lit corridors of a hospital to the village, to childhood and dreams, and into the world of a passionate cinéaste.
Biography: Güliz Sağlam studied at Marmara University, Department of Social Sciences and Administration. She has worked as an assistant director in several feature films, and since 2007, she is an independent documentary filmmaker and a video-activist. She volunteered in Filmmor Women’s Cooperative between 2005 and 2009. Her work consists of independent documentaries on various issues including immigration, women workers’ conditions, women workers’ strikes and resistance in different parts of Turkey, as well as solidarity campaigns of women’s organizations with women workers’ resistance movements, and the encounter of feminists with labor of women, lgbti and feminist activism.
Festival:
33rd International Istanbul Film Festival
19th London Turkish Film Festival, 2014
7th Aegean Documentary Film Days,2014
Documentarist 7th Istanbul Documentary Days
25th Ankara International Film Festival
21st. Adana International Golden Boll Film Festival
- International Valladolid Film Festival, ”Time of History” Competition Section, Spain
International Zeugma Film Festival
9th International Labour Film Festival Antalya Programme
9th Boston Turkish Film Festival Documentary and Short Film Competition, USA
5th. Malatya International Film Festival Documentary Competition Section
17th. International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, 2014
12th Festival Du Cinema de Turquie a Paris
18th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival
12th Cronograf International Documentary Film Festival,Main Competition, Moldova
19th International Documentary Film Festival OFF Cinema, Main Competition, Poznan, Poland
6th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Greece
4th Lake Van International Film Festival, Documentary Film Competition, Turkey
4th Filmamed Documentary Film Festival,Turkey
Awards:
47th Film Critics Asssociation of Turkey – Best Documentary Film Award
9th Boston Documentary and Short Film Competition – Best Documentary Award
5th Malatya International Film Festival – Best Documentary Award
25th Ankara International Film Festival – Best Documentary Award
7th Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days – FIPRESCI Award