PROGRAM 2

TILL DEATH DO AS PART (ÖLÜM BİZİ AYIRANA DEK), 2025
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 19' | Turkish
Director: Deniz Koloş
Cast: Gülçin Kültür Şahin, Menderes Samancılar, Ceren Nur Gürler

Winner of Best Short Film at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and Best Film at the İzmir Short Film Festival, the film centers on an unexpected encounter between Songül, who is going through a separation, and an elderly man searching for his missing grandson. Moving around themes of loss and mourning, the film explores the possibility of two strangers holding on to one another.

EYELASH (KİRPİK), 2024
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 8’ | No-dialogue
Director: Doğa Kılcıoğlu Esen

This animated film tells the story of a little girl growing beneath the eyelashes of a giant eye, weaving a poetic narrative about loss, grief, and transformation

LIFE GOES ON (HAYAT DEVAM EDİYOR), 2024
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 8’ | Turkish
Director: Hümam Özkara
Cast: Osman Doğan, Suat Köçer,Azra Ateş

Premiering at the Toronto Short Film Competition, the film follows the quiet rhythm of people sitting at a café along the Bosphorus, interrupted by a phone call announcing a death. Set within Istanbul’s multicultural fabric, it offers a simple yet poignant pause on coexistence and shared humanity.

BUDU, 2025
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 10’ | No-dialogue
Director: Burcu Ejderoğlu

Produced using stop-motion animation, the film opens in a fog-covered, abandoned city in a post-apocalyptic universe. A man attempting to escape a dark ritual known as “Budu” and a woman held captive at its center are drawn toward an unknown fate.

A BARBER WHO CUTS HIS OWN HAIR (KENDİ SAÇINI KESEN BERBER), 2025
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 13’ | Turkish
Director: Şükrü Özümcan Akın
Cast: Erol Babaoğlu, Ulvi Kahyaoğlu

On a street where every shop has closed for the night, the “Open” sign still glows at Keskin Barber. Azmi Keskin waits for his first customer of the day. For Armağan, who happens to pass by, the evening begins as an ordinary haircut but soon veers into unexpected territory, shadowed by themes of identity, obsession, consent, and control.

DREAMT BY ANOTHER (BİR BAŞKASININ RÜYASI), 2025 Türkiye | DCP, Color, 8’ | İngilizce
Director: Vikki Bardot

In an entirely AI-generated audiovisual world, a narrator reads passages from Pinocchio, Frankenstein, and The Circular Ruins. Meanwhile, a businessman with a deformed face acquires a mask that gradually transforms his identity. The film questions the boundary between reality and creation in the age of technology.