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Short Film Competition

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT DİLAN
DİLAN HAKKINDA KONUŞMALIYIZ

• Director: Umut Şilan Oğurlu
• TÜRKİYE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 20’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Umut Şilan Oğurlu, Mislina Bağrıyanık
• Director of Photography: Tunç Eser Alıcı
• Editing: Doruk Kaya
• Art Director: Mecra Yazıcı
• Cast: Sude Belkıs, Ayşe Lebriz Berkem, Emrah Özdemir, Elif Özdemir, Hakan Kahraman, Ferhat Özmen, Evrim Doğan, Yener Özer, Nur Sürer
• Producer: Zeynep Dilan Süren, Dilan Çiçek Deniz
• World Sales: Ninova Films Distribution

2024 Adana Special Mention
2024 İzmir First Runner-up, Best Editing, Youth Prize
2025 SİYAD Awards: Ahmet Uluçay Promising Talent Award (Umut Şilan Oğurlu)

Dilan, who works for her uncle and lives with her mother, feels that she is not living up to her potential. A documentary team investigating Dilan’s problem follows Dilan’s life while examining the unsolved mystery of artistic production. Why is this young adult of average standards unable to produce anything of value even though she wants to? Is it because of a psychological or physiological condition? Lack of iron? Is it a lack of talent, bad luck, or just laziness?

* 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.