Turquaze

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T URQUA ZE a fil m by

Ka d r B a lc i

Festival des Films du Monde MONTREAL World Film Festival

FORMAT Original version: Dutch, Turkish Running time: 96’ Format: 35mm, 1:2.35 (scope), Dolby SRD, Colour Year of production: 2010

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CREDITS Original title: Turquaze Director: Kadir Balcı Cast: Burak Balcı, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Nihat Alptug Altınkaya, Tilbe Saran, Hilal Sönmez, Sinan Vanden Eynde Original screenplay: Kadir Balcı Photography: Ruben Impens Editing: Nico Leunen Sound: Jan Deca Music: Bert Ostyn

PRODUCTION Production company: Menuet Flemish producer: Dirk Impens Co-producer: Gülin Üstün (Gu-Film) Supported by: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Flanders Government, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, Stad Gent, één, MEDIA, Kinepolis Group, Unitron, Herbeco

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T URQUA ZE Having buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16), return to Ghent, Belgium. Their mother remains in Istanbul. The three brothers resume their lives but need to find a new balance. While Ediz plays the dominant father and Bora does silly things with the wrong friends, Timur tries to fulfil his father’s dream: playing the trumpet in a brass band.

Sarah, Timur’s girlfriend, thinks it’s cool, until she realises how little he seems to notice her now…

Turquaze presents a disarmingly honest chronicle of a Turkish family’s life in Ghent… Turkish for beginners!

ABOUT THE PRODUCtion COMPANY In 1989, Dirk Impens started his own production shop, Favourite Films, later Menuet. Since that time he has been one of the most active independent producers in Flanders, Belgium. After his first full-length movie, Blueberry Hill, he produced the historical epic Daens (directed by Stijn Coninx) which immediately hit bull’s-eye. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign-language Oscar© in 1993. The next film, Manneken Pis (Frank Van Passel), was selected for the Cannes International Critics Week in 1995. In the meantime Impens signed for the production of some 20 featurelength films and various TV series, such as Left Luggage (Jeroen Krabbé), Kongo (Vincent Rouffaer), Everything Must Go (Jan Verheyen), Terug naar Oosterdonk (Frank Van Passel), When the Light Comes (Stijn Coninx), Team Spirit (Jan Verheyen), Villa des Roses (Frank Van Passel), Steve + Sky (Felix van Groeningen), Katarakt (Jan Matthys and Stef Desmyter), Code 37 (various directors), With Friends Like These and The Misfortunates (both by Felix van Groeningen).

ABOUT

Kadir Balci

Kadir Balcı (Ghent, 1970) graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent with a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Arts. Kadir spent two years as an exchange student in the film department at Bournemouth & Poole College for Art & Design in the UK where he directed a short. After graduation, he made a.o. corporate films (Virgin Express, Microsoft Benelux), video clips and an animated film (Par terre) as well as films for museums and theatre companies. In 2008, he co-directed Flemish TV series 180. Turquaze is his first full-length film.