Turkish Cinema - Bal (Honey) by Semih Kaplanoğlu - Goldener Bär 2010

Bal (Honey) is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, the third and final installment of the "Yusuf Trilogy", which includes Yumurta (Egg) and Süt (Milk). It premiered on 16 February 2010 in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the coveted Golden Bear award.


SYNOPSIS

Yusuf (6) has started primary school and is learning how to read and write. His father, Yakup (35-38), works far in the depths of a frightening forest. He is a honey-gatherer who hangs his hand-made beehives in the upper branches of tall trees in the forest. The forest is a place of mystery for Yusuf, who often accompanies his father.

One morning Yusuf describes the dream he had seen that night to his father. This dream is to be an ever-lasting secret between the father and the son.

On that same day, as Yusuf struggles to read before his entire classmates the text the teacher has given him, he begins suddenly to stutter and is ridiculed by his classmates.

Yakup goes to a distant forest, looking for the Caucasian bees which seem to be quickly and mysteriously disappearing. His father gone, Yusuf slips into silence. Yusuf's mother, Zehra (28), who works in the tea fields, is saddened to see her son in this state. No matter how much she tries, she cannot get her son to speak.

Days pass and Zehra and Yusuf becomes anxious when Yakup does not return. Zehra sends Yusuf to spend the sacred Mirac Night (the night of the Ascension of the Prophet) with his grandmother, who lives quite a distance away from their village. There, Yusuf listens to the story of the Mirac, and believes that his father, who to the lad resembles the Holy Prophet, will return.

The next day they fail to find Yakup at the festival being held on Sis (mist) Mountain.

Yusuf goes deep into the forest to search for his father. Will the dream he has seen come true?


ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Semih Kaplanoglu is one of the most acclaimed writer-director- producers of contemporary filmmaking in Turkey.

He received BS in Cinema- Television from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül Universiy, Izmir in 1984.

Kaplanoğlu made his debut in 2001 with "Away From Home", and with this film he was awarded Best Director in Singapore IFF.

In 2005, he made his second feature "Angel's Fall". The film received Best Film Awards in Nantes, Kerala and Barcelona Alternativa FF.

With his third feature film »Yumurta« (Egg), which premiered in 2007 Quinzaine des Realisateurs, he received Best Director awards in Fajr IFF, Valdivia IFF and Bangkok World FF. The film received 30 awards in total including important national awards such as the Golden Orange (Antalya IFF) and the Golden Tulip award (Istanbul IFF).

His feature film »Süt« (Milk) premired at the 2008 Venice IFF, and was also screened at festivals around the world, earning him international awards, such as FIPRESCI prize at the Istanbul IFF.


His recent feature »Bal« (Honey) the third part of the Yusuf Trilogy, winner of GOLDEN BEAR award in 60th Berlinale IFF, traces the origins of a soul.

Semih Kaplanoglu, born in 1963, has also written many articles based on plastic arts and cinema which have been translated into foreign languages and published in such magazines and journals as Gergedan, Gösteri, Cumhuriyet, and Sanat Dünyamız between 1987 and 2003.


WEBSITE:

www.kaplanfilm.com



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