UCSD TURKISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION

               PRESENTS TURKISH MOVIE NIGHT

"Yasamin Kiyisinda" (Auf Der Anderen Seite)

 

                                                    Location: UCSD, Center Hall Room 105       

                                                    Time: Thursday, November 20, 7:00-8:30 pm.

                                                    Cost: Free            Supporting Partners: FULBRIGHT , UCSD GSA

Audio Video: Original Language: German-Turkish , Available Subtitles: English

Director: Fatih Akin

Cast : Nurgül Yeþilçay, Tuncel Kurtiz, Baki Davrak, Nursel Köse, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: The fragile lives of six people connect on emotional voyages toward forgiveness and reconciliation in Germany and Turkey. Nejat disapproves of his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But changes his mind when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's education. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to find Yeter's daughter Ayten. However, political activist Ayten is already in Germany, having to flee the Turkish police. There, she meets Lotte who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not pleasing to her conservative mother. When Ayten is eventually arrested, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.

Festivals and Awards: 

* César Awards, France (2008): Best Foreign Film  

* Bavarian Film Awards, Munich, Germany (2008): Best Director 

* Ankara International Film Festival (2008): Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Nursel Kose, Patrycia Ziolkowska), Best Supporting Actor (Tuncel Kurtiz) 

* Cannes Film Festival (2007): Best Screenplay

* European Film Awards, Berlin, Germany (2007): Best Screenwriter

* Bangkok International Film Festival, Thailand (2007): Best Film

* Cinemanila International Film Festival, Manila, Philippines (2007): Lino Brocka Award

* Golden Orange Film Festival, Antalya, Turkey (2007): Best Director, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor (Tuncel Kurtiz), Best Supporting Actress (Nursel Köse)

* Toronto Film Festival, Canada (2007)

* Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland (2007)

* Festival Paris Cinéma (2007)

* La Rochelle International Film Festival, France (2007)  

Director FATIH AKIN: Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg born to Turkish parents. He studied Visual Communications at Hamburg's College of Fine Arts in 1994. By this time he started collaborating with Wueste Film. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first short feature, "Sensin… You're The One!" (Sensin… Du bist es!), which received the Audience Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival. His second short film, Weed (Getuerkt, 1996), received several national and international festival prizes. His first full-length feature film, "Short Sharp Shock" (Kurz und schmerzlos, 1998) won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno, Switzerland and the Bavarian Film Award (Best Young Director) in 1998. His fourth feature film, Gegen die Wand (Head-On) was a great success in 2004 and received several prizes, among them the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival and the Best Film and the Audience Awards at the European Film Awards.

Filmography:  

New York, I Love You (2008: announced) d)

The Edge of Heaven / Auf der anderen Seite / Yaþamýn Kýyýsýnda (2007)

Soul Kitchen  (2006)

Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)

Visions of Europe / Europäische Visionen (2004)

Head-On / Gegen die Wand / Duvara Karþý (2004)

Solino (2002)

Denk ich an Deutschland - Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren (2001)

In July / Im Juli (2000)

Short Sharp Shock / Kurz und Schmerzlos (1998)

Weed / Getürkt (1996)

Sensin... You're the One! / Sensin - Du bist es!  (1995)

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CONTACT& QUESTIONS : Please send an e-mail to Mehmet Parlak: mparlak@ucsd.edu or Kaan Ozkarahan: aozkarah@ucsd.edu or call 858-205-8894