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Ayhan Ergürsel

EGG
YUMURTA

• Director: Semih Kaplanoğlu
• TÜRKİYE, GREECE / 2007 / DCP / Colour / 97’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Semih Kaplanoğlu, Orçun Köksal
• Director of Photography: Özgür Eken
• Editing: Ayhan Ergürsel, Semih Kaplanoğlu, Suzan Hande Güneri
• Art Director: Naz Erayda
• Cast: Nejat İşler, Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Ufuk Bayraktar, Tülin Özen, Gülçin Santırcıoğlu, Kaan Karabacak
• Producer: Semih Kaplanoğlu
• Production Co.: Kaplan Film Production
• World Sales: Kaplan Film Production

2008 İstanbul En İyi Film, Radikal Halk Ödülü
2008 Seoul Best Film
2008 Fajr Best Director
2007 NETPAC Best Asia-Pacific Film
2007 Sarajevo Best Actress
2007 Antalya Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematographer, Best Art Direction, Best Costume
2007 Bangkok Best Director

The first instalment of Semih Kaplanoğlu’s ’Yusuf trilogy,’ Egg is followed up by Honey and Milk. Having its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section, Egg follows poet Yusuf, who returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn’t visited for years, upon his mother’s death. A young girl, Ayla awaits him in a crumbling house. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years. Ayla has something to ask of Yusuf: Yusuf is obliged to make the sacrifice his mother Zehra had been prevented by death from fulfilling.

Arda Ekşigil’s short film The Knights’ Templar (19’) will be screened before this film.

* 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.