NDNF Film Trailer: Autumn / Sonbahar

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Screening as part of the New Directors/New Films 2009 Film exhibition at MoMA and Lincoln Center. For more information: http://moma.org/visit/calendar/films/869

Autumn / Sonbahar. 2008. Directed by Özcan Alper. Germany/Turkey. This stunning elegy to lost youth and lost ideals follows Yusuf, just released from prison and headed to the majestic mountains of the eastern Black Sea region where he grew up. Without any friends or community left from his politically involved youth spent in the big city, he moves back into his mothers small shack on the mountainside and tries to reconnect to the landscape of his childhood. Sick and dispirited yet eager to believe in the possibilities of the future, he forges a tentative bond with a young local boy and an emotionally powerful connection with another outsider, a Georgian prostitute whose life is also waylaid by the shattered dreams of Socialist utopia. Özcan Alpers debut is a powerfully realized inner journey that evinces an especially profound talent for the lyrical use of landscape to express belief in the human spirit. 99 minutes

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  • even if this film has a political background, it cant be as a politic film named. It is much more than a protest against the "back to the life" operation, which caused of dead several political prisoners in turkish prisons at the end of 90s. In my opinion it is a phantastic view of analysing of a hopeless socialist, who has just a few months to live because of the illness, which is a result of the bad prisonsconditions. Furthermore he falls in love with a girl from georgia.

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  • kemence !!! cok guzel filmi

    tesekur arkdaslar

    Pontos= Hellas

    Nice movie nice Hellenic songs ;)

    cok tesekur

  • This looks like an awsome film! Makes me want to pick up a camera again and go film :D

  • One of the Winners of 6th Golden Apricot. A special prize from the head of Jury went to Özcan Alper for his Autumn... congratulation

  • i'm not sure...

  • about what is this movie?

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