Section: Close Up TR

Ölü Ekmeği

Food for a Funeral

Reis Çelik
Turkey, 2019, 103 Min

In this cross between a ballad and wedding song a boy dreams of becoming an ashik, a singer who whilst providing his own accompaniment on a saz narrates folk tales in the form of song. He learns from an experienced singer, all the while experiencing discipline and passion, hopes and hardships in this technically impressive, almost defiant musical folk fairy tale dedicated to Anatolia of the 1960s.

Drought and poverty shape this region of Anatolia on the hilly plains above the valleys where Mustafa tends his sheep. Though as an ashik he's unlikely to grow rich, he will be able to determine his own fate. The learning process is arduous however, so much so that he sometimes flees back to his old existence, rushing from one feast to another at weddings and funerals, where something to eat can always be found. With first love however comes hunger mixed with desire, and uncertainty with longing, all of which provides material for sad songs, unfinished stories and a film like this, which winds its way through the soul of Anatolia like a path of dreams, from tradition to tradition, at once earthly and mythical. A timeless allegory on poverty and the process of growing up, as well as an experiment with the fragments of a centuries-old culture that, despite the poetry, remains objective to the last.

Filmformat
1:1.85
Drehbuch
Reis Çelik
Kamera
Candan Murat
Ton
Andere
Schnitt
Reis Çelik- Mesut Ulutaş
Ausstattung
Dilek Aydın
Musik
Engin Arslan, Ertan Tekin, Reis Çelik
Darsteller
Tarkhan Omarow, Ziyeddin Aliyev, Mariam Burutushvili, Dilan Aksüt
Produzent
Anıl Çelik- Dilek Aydın
Produktion
Kaz Film Yapım Ltd
Kontakt
Kaz Film Ltd
Çelik Anıl
kazfilm1@gmail.com
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