WÊRE DENGE MIN (COME TO MY VOICE)

Feature Film | TR/FR/DE (2013) | 100min

In a snowy Kurdish mountain village in eastern Turkey, Berfé, an old woman, and Jiyan, her young granddaughter, are troubled when the only man of the household, Temo, the son of one and father of the other, is arrested and taken into custody by the local gendarmerie. The commanding officer has received word that the villagers are hiding guns. It is announced that all the men of the village will be kept in custody until their families submit and hand over the guns they are hiding. But the problem is that there are no guns, at least to the knowledge of these two blameless women. Despairing and on their own, Berfé and Jiyan are faced with a long journey in search of a gun that they can exchange for their beloved Temo. But how can their innocence and naivety find a way out in a system that threatens, eventually, to drag them into the sullied world of an interminable conflict?

Writer | Director: Hüseyin Karabey

Cast: Feride Gezer, Melek Ülger, Tuncay Akdemir, Muhsin Tokçu, Ali Tekbaş, Kadir Ilter, Emrah Özdemir, Nazmi Sinan Mıhçı, Murat Çatalbaş, Sabahattin Dağ

Editor: Baptiste Gacoin
Sound: Miroslav Babic
Art Direction: Hülya Karakas, Fatih Özçelik
Lighting: Nurdoğan Erduvan
1st AC: Torsten Schimmer

Production: ASI Film (TR): Emre Yeksan / Hüseyin Karabey
Co-Production: Neue Mediopolis (DE): Alexander Ris, Cine Plus Filmproduktion GmbH (DE), EY Films (FR): Elie Meirovitz

Awards

▸ People’s Coice Award 33rd Istanbul Film Festival 2014
▸ Best Music 33rd Istanbul Film Festival 2014
▸ Cineuropa.org Award 33rd Istanbul Film Festival 2014
▸ Best Film Red Tulip Festival Rotterdam 2014
▸ Best Director Red Tulip Festival Rotterdam 2014
Bestes Drehbuch, Beste weibliche Hauptrolle (Feride Gezer): 1. Edirne Film Festival (Nov 2015):
Best Balkan Film: Sofia International Film Festival (March 2015)
▸ Best international Film: Garden State Film Festival (March2015)
▸ Runner-up Award: Anchorage International Film Festival (Dec 2014)
▸ Special Award of the Jury: Cinema Mediterraneen Bruxelles (Dec 2014)
▸ Best Film: Mar del Plata Filmfest, Argentinia (Nov 2014)
Audience Award: Milano Film Festival (Sept 2014)

World Premiere: 64. Berlinale – Competistion Generation Kplus 2014
Cinema Release: 17.03.2014

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