Short Films

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National Competition

TULLIANA
BARS

• Director: Orçun Köksal
• TURKEY / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 109’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Orçun Köksal
• Director of Photography: Orçun Özkılınç
• Editing: Semih Gülen
• Music: Muhlis Berberoğlu
• Art Director: Natali Yeres
• Cast: Görkem Kasal, Münircan Cindoruk, Ali Seçkiner Alıcı, Tarhan Karagöz, Muttalip Müjdeci, Sencar Sağdıç, Sezin Bozacı
• Producer: Alara Hamamcıoğlu Bayraktar, Arda Çiltepe, Sinan Kesova, Orçun Köksal
• Production Co.: Vigo Film, Varyant Film, Alim Yapım 
• World Sales: Vigo Film

2023 Istanbul Film Festival Seyfi Teoman Best Debut Feature

Two zoologists seeking the extinct Anatolian panther search for its traces in the deep forests of Anatolia. Veysel believes the almost mythical panther embodies something beyond an animal, an element that Anatolian people have lost and are still looking for. For Emre, only the idea of photographing the absent Anatolian panther excites him. They manage to capture an obscure image of the large cat, but they can’t prove it is the panther’s. The two friend are surprised and disturbed when they see stuffed panthers at the offices of some bureaucrats. A secret Veysel reveals to Emre in Hacıbektaş changes both of them. Will searching for something non-existent destroy them, too?

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.