THE NEW DAWN FADES (YENİ ŞAFAK SOLARKEN), 2024

Türkiye, Italy, Germany | DCP, Color, 130’ | Turkish
Director: Gürcan Keltek
Cast: Cem Yiğit Üzümoğlu, Ayla Algan, Erol Babaoğlu

After years of treatment in hospitals, Akın realizes, following his latest discharge, that he cannot return to his former life and withdraws into his family home in Istanbul. As he moves between the city’s chaotic noise and the silence of mosques and cemeteries, his sense of reality gradually unravels through hallucinations triggered by the spaces around him. Roaming like a dark poem on the boundary between documentary and fiction, the film turns Istanbul into an uncanny extension of Akın’s mind. Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival, the film received the Istanbul Film Festival’s Best Director Award.

January 10, 17.00
January 15, 14.30