Actors: Timuçin Esen, Merve Asya Özgür, Mehmet Kurtuluş, İpek Bilgin, Nur Sürer, Şebnem Hassanisoughi, Asiye Dinçsoy, Oğuz Kara
 

Synopsis:

 

Famous film director Levent (45), the honorary guest of Söke Film Festival from İstanbul, is completely unaware of Aliye (25), a housekeeper at the hotel where he is staying. However, Aliye, who is trying to tailor a new life story for herself, knows Levent and his films very well. Aliye’s intriguing story brings together these two distant people with completely different lives.
Now, they have to choose between reality and fiction.

 

 

Directors Biography:

 

Pelin Esmer was born in Istanbul. After she majored in sociology, she founded Sinefilm where she has produced and directed her films The Play, 10 to 11, Watchtower, Something Useful and Queen Lear. Her films premiered at festivals such as Toronto, San Sebastian, Tribeca, Rotterdam, Tallinn and Sarajevo. She received many international awards and she was a guest artist in various residencies: Cinefondation - Paris (2007), DAAD - Berlin (2018) and Camargo - Marseille (2019).

 

Filmography
2019: Queen Lear - feature film / documentary 2017: Something Useful - feature film / fiction 2012: Watchtower - feature film / fiction
2009: 10 to 11 - feature film / fiction
2005: The Play - feature film / documentary