Filmek
Siyah Beyaz
Black & White
Turkey
Director: Ahmet BOYACIOGLU
92 min. 2010 35mm, Colour,
with dialogue, Turkish, English subtitled
Distributor: Ahmet Boyacioglu
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Producer: Ali Akman, Basak Emre, Ahmet Boyacioglu
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Screenplay: Ahmet Boyacioglu
Cinematographer: Ozgur Eken
Music: Cem Anil
Editor: Selda Taskin
Cast:
Tuncel Kurtiz, Erkan Can, Taner Birsel, Nejat Isler, Sevval Sam, Derya Alabora
A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling down despite his 70 years; a lawyer who packed in his job after suffering a heart attack and now pursues a quiet life looking after his pet snail; a doctor already disenchanted with his profession and now discarded by his wife; a career woman braving life on her own, who has made loneliness a life style. These characters are all patrons of Black & White, an Ankara bar that has been around for 25 years, and in a sense the bar is their last haven. The owner, meanwhile, is the irritable, easily offended but utterly lovable Faruk...
Black & White is a film about the awareness of growing old, friendship, sensitivity and the finer details of life.
Major screenings, presentations:
Mannheim-Heidelberg, Antalya, Cork
Prizes:
Special Award of the Jury - Mannheim-Heidelberg
Ahmet BOYACIOGLU
Ahmet Boyacioglu (Zonguldak, 1953) graduated from Ankara University with a degree in medicine and spent twenty years working as a general surgeon. 1988- 1995 he served on the executive committee of the Ankara International Film Festival. Since 1995, he has been the general secretary of the Festival on Wheels, as well has chairing the Ankara Cinema Association. Between 2005 and 2007 he took on the role of Turkey’s national representative to Eurimages. He writes on film for an assortment of newspapers and magazines.
Funeral (short, 2001).
3x8=24 (short, 2001).
Ankara Cinema Association / Festival on Wheels