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Ayhan Ergürsel

WATCHTOWER
GÖZETLEME KULESİ

• Director: Pelin Esmer
• TÜRKİYE, FRANCE, GERMANY / 2012 / DCP / Colour / 100’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Pelin Esmer
• Director of Photography: Özgür Eken
• Editing: Ayhan Ergürsel, Pelin Esmer
• Art Director: Osman Özcan
• Cast: Olgun Şimşek, Nilay Erdönmez, Menderes Samancılar, Kadir Çermik, Laçin Ceylan, Rıza Akın, Mehmet Bozdoğan, Nurettin İpek, Fatih Sağlam, İzzet Aytaç
• Producer: Tolga Esmer, Nida Karabol Akdeniz, Pelin Esmer
• Co-Producer: Mustafa Dok, Guillaume de Seille
• Production Co.: Sinefilm
• World Sales: Sinefilm

2013 Nuremberg Turkey-Germany FF Best Actress
2012 Adana Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography
2012 Tashkent Best Film
2012 Victoria Indie FF (Texas) Crossroads Award
2012 Erzurum Dadaş FF Best Director, Best Actress
2012 Brasilia Best Actress
2012 Fribourg Don Quixote Mention, Ecumenical Jury Special Mention

Haunted by a tragic incident, Nihat isolates himself by becoming a fire warden in a remote observation tower far out in the wilderness. Seher lives in a makeshift room at a rural bus station, and she has taken on a job as a bus hostess to avoid confronting her own traumatic past. Destined to come to a crossroads, they go about their solitary lives until their fates collide. They settle together at Nihat’s mountain-side watchtower. Yet the weight of the past presses on the silence between them. Premiering at Toronto, Watchtower is Pelin Esmer’s second feature length fiction film.

Sezen Kayhan’s short film Elene (12’) 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.