National Competition

THE CEMIL SHOW
CEMİL ŞOV

• Director: Barış Sarhan
• TURKEY / 2020 / DCP / Colour and B&W / 102’ / Turkish

• Screenplay: Barış Sarhan
• Director of Photography: Soykut Turan
• Editing: Evren Luş
• Music: Taner Yücel
• Cast: Ozan Çelik, Nesrin Cavadzade, Alican Yücesoy, Cezmi Baskın, Başar Alemdar, Fuat Kökek, Sennur Nogaylar, Ülkünur Arslan
• Producer: Barış Sarhan, Umut Eğitimci
• Co-Producer: Levend Çağıl, Önder Önsal
• Production Co.: Sarhan Projects
• World Sales: Alpha Violet

2021 Istanbul Best Editing

Long-suffering mall cop Cemil auditions for the bad guy role in a remake of a Turkish B-movie from the ‘60s from the so-called Yeşilçam era. Even while teaming up with a female colleague whose father played the vintage bad guy, Cemil doesn’t have a chance in hell. A true underdog, he keeps pushing for the role until the role gets him...

*This film is nominated for the Seyfi Teoman Debut Film Prize

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.