ARE YOU LISTENING MOTHER?

Germany/ Turkey | 20' | 2019 | short fiction

A Turkish Village. A Kurdish woman is sentenced to six years house arrest. Her older son unwillingly becomes her prison guard. Torn between his mother and the police he is forced to confront his own boundaries.

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 (selection): 

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