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Ayhan Ergürsel

ELENE

• Director: Sezen Kayhan
• TÜRKİYE, GEORGIA / 2016 / DCP / Colour / 11’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Sezen Kayhan
• Director of Photography: Yakup Algül
• Editing: Ayhan Ergürsel
• Art Director: Serkan Döğücü
• Cast: Mariam Buturishvili, Canan Kızılay, Maya Pachuashvili, Magda Karsidze, Alperen Kandemir
• Producer: Leyla Bekar
• Production Co.: Arya Film
• World Sales: Sezen Kayhan

2017 Lisbon Best Narrative Short Film
2017 Montreal Best International Student Film
2017 Ordu First Prize, Best Director
2017 Boston Special Mention
2017 Environmental Short FF Second Place–Fiction

16-year-old Elene is a Georgian illegal immigrant who works at a tea plantation in Turkey. Feeling threatened by various encounters, she tries to be invisible in this foreign land. But it is not as easy as she thinks.

‘Working with Ayhan Ergürsel meant being open to unexpected ideas at every moment. He was a unique person who had a completely different way of thinking, made very different connections, and opened new narrative doors for you. It was very fortunate to have worked with him.’ -Sezen Kayhan

This film will be screened before Pelin Esmer’s Watchtower.

* 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.