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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Tayfun Pirselimoglu
Script :
Tayfun Pirselimoglu
Photography :
Colin Mounier
Editor :
Sevket Uysal
Cast :
Zuhal Olcay, Parkan �zturan, Meral Okay, Michael Mendl, Ruhi Sari, Cezmi Baskin
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INNOWHERELAND
S�kran, in her forties, works in the central train station of Istanbul. She dotes on her only son, Veysel, who works in a small factory in the suburbs. S�kran is particularly devoted to her son because of her adverse experiences with her late husband's political activities. The boy's father, a Kurd, was deeply involved in the fight for Kurdish independence, and the family suffered the consequences. After her husband's death, S�kran worked hard to ensure sure that Veysel was sheltered from political influences. Then, one day, Veysel disappears. His mother goes to the police to find out what happened. They have no record of his being arrested and they claim to know nothing about his disappearance. But they offer to show her some unidentified murder victims. S�kran faints at the sight of one particular, mangled body but she assures the police that it isn't her son. Sule, Veysel's girlfriend, on the other hand, is sure that it is him. S�kran is angry at Sule for her insistence. She is sure that Veysel is alive and that he will turn up alive any day. She looks everywhere but finds nothing. Then, one day, she spots Veysel in a crowd at the train station. But when she manages to work her way through the crowd, he is gone. She tells people what happened, but nobody believes her. Nobody but Ahmet, a barber in the train station, who tells her about one of his customers, a talkative policeman, who told him a story about a young man with the name of Veysel who was arrested and escaped from a police van. The young man was last spotted in Mardin, a small town in southeastern Turkey. S�kran immediately heads south...
Tayfun Pirselimoglu
Born in Trabzon, Turkey in 1959, Tayfun Pirselimoglu graduated from the Middle East Technical University, then studied painting and sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. He exhibited his works in Istanbul, Vienna, New York, Budapest, Tallin, and also showed in many collective exhibitions. Since 1985 he has been involved in film and literature, writing articles for various periodicals. In 1996 he published his first novel, Desert Stories. He is a scriptwriter as well, and many films from his screenplays have won prizes at various European festivals. He made his own directorial debut in 1999 with a short, My Uncle, which he followed in 2000 with Silence is Golden. INNOWHERELAND marks his debut in features.
August 29, 2002 • 11:30:00 • PARISIEN • P4.29.2 •
August 30, 2002 • 21:30:00 • IMP�RIAL • CI.30.6 •
August 31, 2002 • 16:30:00 • MAISONNEUVE • TM.31.1 •
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