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Waiting for the Clouds

Bulutları beklerken

Turkey

2003

87 Min
Color
1.85:1
Turkish, Greek
Subtitled in English
Audio in Greek
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DIR Yeşim Ustaoğlu

PROD Setareh Farsi, Behrooz Hashemian

SCR Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Petros Markaris, Georgios Andreadis

DP Jacek Petrycki

CAST Rüçhan Caliskur, Ridvan Yagci, Dimitris Kaberidis, Ismail Baysan

ED Nicolas Gaster, Timo Linnasalo

PROD DES Selda Ulkenciler

MUSIC Michael Galasso

SOUND Bernd von Bassewitz

Berlinale (Panorama)

Synopsis

Waiting for the Clouds opens with census clerks who arrive early one morning in the small port town of Tirebolu in the Black Sea region of Turkey. But the streets are empty and silent—not everyone can afford to be counted as questions about one’s past can open up dangerous wounds. Ayse, the daughter of a Greek family evacuated from the region in 1916, has kept silent about her true identity, but secretly considers Greece her homeland. When she sets foot in Greece for the first time, both she and the viewer are forced to reconsider what constitutes a homeland, and what makes one a foreigner. –Boston Turkish Film Festival

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Yeşim Ustaoğlu

After making several award – winning shorts in Turkey, Yeşim Ustaoğlu made her feature film debut with 1994’s THE TRACE (iZ). The film was presented at numerous international festivals, including Moscow and Gotenburg.

Yeşim Ustaoğlu received international recognition for her 1999 film, JOURNEY TO THE SUN (GÜNEŞE YOLCULUK). In competition at the Berlin Film Festival, JOURNEY TO THE SUN received the Blue Angel Award (Best European Film) and the Peace Prize. The moving story of a courageouas friendship undaunted by political cruelty, JOURNEY TO THE SUN swept the İstanbul Film Festival by winning Best Film, Best Director, the FIBRESCI Prize and the Audience Award.

Her third film, WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS, the story of a woman forced to live for 50 years with the haunting secrets of a hidden identity, was awarded NHK Sundance – International Film-maker’s award. Film traveled many festival and established a strong reputation for the director. Ustaoğlu’s fourth film, PANDORA’S… read more

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