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Special Screening

DAYS OF FIRE, LOVE AND ANARCHY: THE TURKISH SINEMATEK AND ONAT KUTLAR
AŞK, ATEŞ VE ANARŞİ GÜNLERİ: TÜRK SİNEMATEKİ VE ONAT KUTLAR

• Director: Önder Esmer
• TURKEY / 2023 / DCP / Colour and B&W / 76’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Önder Esmer
• Director of Photography: Serdar Aydın
• Editing: Tuvana Simin Günay
• Music: Alper Maral
• Cast: Mete Akalın, Cevat Çapan, Atilla Dorsay, Burçak Evren, Mustafa Göçmen, Filiz Kutlar, Mazlum Kutlar, Onat Kutlar, Seza Kutlar Aksoy, Ali Özgentürk, Nijat Özön, Adnan Özyalçıner, Ömer Pekmez, Vecdi Sayar, Aydın Sayman, Giovanni Scognamillo, Ahmet Soner, Jak Şalom, Hülya Uçansu, Rekin Teksoy
• Producer: Matthias Kyska
• World Sales: Matthias Kyska

In 1961, young writer Onat Kutlar goes to Paris to study philosophy. After going to the French Cinémathèque, he discovers his passion for cinema and decides to establish a cinematheque in Istanbul as well. Only a few years later, in 1965, the Turkish Sinematek is founded by Onat Kutlar and a group of intellectuals. The interest in the Sinematek exceeds all expectations, and art films from all over the world are screened there for the first time. The Sinematek not only shows films, but also becomes a centre, where an intellectual film culture emerges and a new generation of filmmakers, critics, and cinephiles grows up. However, the Sinematek, soon enough, finds itself in the midst of an unexpected clash with Turkish filmmakers.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.