ARE YOU LISTENING MOTHER?
SHORT FICTION
Germany/ Turkey | 20' | 2019 | short fiction
A Turkish Village. A Kurdish woman is sentenced to six years house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet. An invisible border is set up through her garden, which she repeatedly crosses.
Her son unwillingly becomes her prison guard. Torn between obedience and rebellion he is forced to confront his own boundaries. How far will he go to protect her?
Writer/Director/Producer: Tuna Kaptan
Cast: Aziz Çapkurt, Sebiha Bozan,
Bülent Keser, Adnan Devran
DOP: Roy Yunus Imer
Editor: Sophie Oldenbourg
Music: Özgür Akgül
Sound: Ömer Buğra
Sound Design: Clemens Becker
Sound Mix: Florian Schneeweiß
Executive Producer: Sara Merih Ertaş
Costume: Kezban Bozan
Production Design: Cenk Aydın
Co-Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk
Logline:
A man is enclosing his rebellious mother in her house with barbed wire in order to protect her.
Festivals:
Clermont-Ferrand ISFF
Tampere Film Festival
Filmweek Regensburg
Landshut SFF – DaHome award
Turkish Film Days Munich
Skepto IFF – Best Short Film
Filmfest Dresden – Best Short Fiction
Ankara IFF – Best Short Film
Brussels Short Film Festival
Stockholm IFF – Best Short Film
Bucharest SCCF – Best Student Film
Mediterranean Film Festival Split
FEST - New Directors New Films Festival
First Steps Awards –Best Short Film
Encounters Bristol
Kurdish Film Festival
DokuFest Prizren
Alpinale SFF – Best Short Film
Filmfest Weiterstadt
Open Place Film Festival
Lessinia Film Festival
Festival Silhouette Paris
Fünf Seen Filmfestival
Nancy International Film Festival
Black Canvas Mexico
Fano IFF – Special Jury Mention
Show me Shorts New Zealand
Festival Cine Madrid
ISFF Cyprus
Kurdish Film Festival Berlin
Antalya International Film Festival
Filmfest Biberach
Interfilm Berlin
SFF Cologne – Honorary Jury Mention
Festival du Film Court Villeurbanne
Sequence SFF Toulouse
Filmschoolfest Munich
Nomination German Short Film Award
Bogoshorts Bogota
Short Cutz Berlin – Special Jury Mention
IFF Würzburg – Audience Award
Antarctica Short Film Festival
Riga 2annas
Orient Express Filmtage Bern
Festival Amnesty International
Yilmaz Güney Film Festival
International film festival of Aubagne
Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay
London Kurdish Film Festival
Menorca International Film Festival
Filmets Badalona
Shortynale
STIFF Film Festival
Human-Environment Care Film Festival
World wide sales Radiator IP Sales
Technical Data: Fiction, 19 minutes, DCP, 5.1 Dolby SRD
