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DESTINY
(Kader)
- North
America Premiere
-- Director
Present -- |
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Boston
Turkish Film Festival Excellence in Turkish
Cinema Award presented to Director Zeki Demirkubuz
preceding
the screening. Reception following the film. |
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- Sunday,
April 1 3:45pm
- Remis
Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington
Avenue, Boston
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"...
an auteur with a genuine spiritual sensitivity ...
one of the world's few convincing existential
filmmakers"
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works of genius elevate the soul."
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Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix
Full
Article
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- Directed and
written by Zeki Demirkubuz
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- Cast: Ufuk
Bayraktar, Vildan Atasever, Engin Akyurek, Muge Ulusoy,
Ozan Bilen, Settar Tanrioğen, Erkan Can, Mustafa Uzunyılmaz,
Güzin Alkan, Hikmet Demir, Gönül Çalgan
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2006, 107 min. 35mm.
In Turkish with English subtitles
Bekir is in love with Ugur, who loves Zagor who loves to commit crimes.
Zagor is released from the jail. When the unfortunate incidents follow one another in a hot and suffocating summer night, Zagor
commits a murder. In the same night, Ugur disappears too.
This murder is the messenger of the dark and hard days for Ugurs young mother, her paralyzed father and her younger brother who lived under the protection of young and rich Cevat, whereas it is a hope for the salvation of Bekir . He gets married and starts a new life.
However, after months when Zagor kills two policemen in Izmir and gets caught, when a new hope arises for Bekir to reach Ugur, an inexorable pursuit that will last for years behind this merciless love, begins. Bekir starts to trail Ugur in cheap countryside nightclubs, third class motel rooms, in joint parties.
Shot but not giving away. Driven away but not leaving. Degraded, his pride is hurt, he doesnt mind. Ugur is dragged after Zagor from town to town, prison to prison and Bekir follows Ugur like a loyal, stubborn dog.
While everything is vanishing for a pair of eyes and a beautiful face, love grows with the light of a cigarette put out in the palms, with pain, poverty, tears and badness. Families are torn apart, children grow orphan yet the innocence is never lost.
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- Festivals and Awards:
- Istanbul
International Film Festival (upcoming -
March/April 2007)
- 12th
Nurnberg Turkey/Germany Film Festival (2007)
- Golden
Orange Film Festival, Antalya: Best Film Award
(2006)
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Director ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ: |
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Born in Isparta in 1964, Demirkubuz is
a graduate of the Istanbul University Department of Communications.
He began his career as an assistant to director Zeki Okten. His
first film, Block C (C Blok), and his later works have mainly been
based on original screenplays conceived and written by Demirkubuz
himself.
Demirkubuz first gained the notice of film critics and international
audiences with Innocence (Masumiyet) and later with The Third
Page(Ucuncu Sayfa), which were screened at numerous film festivals
in Turkey and Europe, including the film festivals of Venice,
Locarno and Rotterdam.
This was followed by the successful reception of Fate (Yazgi) and
Confession (Itiraf), and both films were screened at Un
Certain Regard at Cannes. Fate and Confession, are the first two
features in Tales About Darkness, a trilogy set to conclude with The
Waiting Room (Bekleme Odasi). With Fate and Confession, Zeki
Demirkubuz has become the first director to have two films screened
at the same time in Cannes. Demirkubuz won a FIPRESCI (The
International Federation of Film Critics) Award and the Best Director
Award at the Istanbul Film Festival for Fate and
Confession. Fate also won Best Director and Best 3rd Film awards,
and the Jury Special Award at the 38th Golden Orange Film Festival
in Antalya, Turkey. Zeki Demirkubuz won the Best Director of
the Year Award with The Waiting Room (Bekleme Odasi) in the Istanbul
Film Festival on April 24, 2004, which had its North America premiere
at the 3rd Boston Turkish Film Festival in 2004. All Demirkubuz films
have been screened in various Boston Turkish Film Festivals of the
previous years. |
| Filmography: |
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| Destiny / Kader |
2006 |
| The Waiting Room /
Bekleme Odasi |
2003 |
| Confession / Itiraf |
2001 |
| Fate / Yazgi |
2001 |
| The Third Page /
Ucuncu Sayfa |
1999 |
| Innocence /
Masumiyet |
1997 |
| Block C / C Blok |
1994 |
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