Short Films

{{item.headline}}

> DETAIL INFO

Cinemania

ALL OVER THE PLACE - A PORTRAIT OF TUNCEL KURTİZ

• Director: Özcan Alper
• TÜRKİYE / 2025 / DCP / Colour / 85’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Özcan Alper
• Director of Photography: Orçun Özkılınç, Övünç Sarp Özdemir
• Editing: İsmet Araç
• Music: Erdem Helvacıoğlu
• With: Erkan Can, Nur Sürer, Halit Ergenç, Cansu Dere, Şevval Sam, Fatih Akın, Berkay Ateş, Nursel Köse, Reis Çelik, Menderes Samancılar
• Producer: Soner Alper, Mert Gençbay, Rabia Çelik
• Co-Producer: Yusuf Ölmez, Okan Açmak
• Production Co.: Nar Film, 19:30 Film, Yedi Yapım
• World Sales: Nar Film

Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz’s acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many different genres and styles. As an actor, Kurtiz believes in the creative power of chaos: ‘Chaos is the most difficult to create / Not a false chaos / Many things come out of chaos’. Through testimonies, film excerpts, and archive footage, this documentary reflects Tuncel Kurtiz’s diverse body of artistic work in all its dimensions for the first time. In the background of this detailed portrait are Turkey’s turbulent years and the reality of exile.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.