Competição Curtas Metragens
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GAME, INTERRUPTED OYUNBOZAN
Ilayda Iseri
Turquia · Fic. · 2023 · 15’
Em 1979, durante as férias de Inverno, dois irmãos, ela com 8 anos e ele com 7, encontram uma forma de escapar ao tédio, mudando de um jogo para outro num pequeno apartamento em Ancara. Porém, nesse dia, algo está a correr mal. Enquanto tentam perceber o que aconteceu, dão-se conta de um estranho intruso à porta, que se assemelha a Khomeini ou a Darth Vader. Terão de corrigir o rumo dos acontecimentos antes que a mãe regresse a casa.
In 1979, during their winter break, two siblings aged 7 and 8 find their way out of boredom by switching from one game to another in a small apartment in Ankara. However, something goes wrong that day. While trying to figure out what happened, they notice a strange intruder at the door, who resembles Khomeini or Darth Vader. They must fix the course of events before their mother returns home.
Argumento Screenplay Ilayda Iseri, Melsen Tunca
Produção Production Fehmi Ozturk, Tolga Karaçelik, Nefes Polat
Fotografia Cinematography Bunyamin Karair
Montagem Editing Firat Terzioglu
Música Music Ilayda Iseri, Seçkin Caliskan
Direcção de Arte Art Director Fehmi Ozturk, Beyhan T. E.
Som Sound Tugrul Gultepe
Com With Bahar Sare Vural, Mustafa Enis Bilir, Zeynep Kilinc
Distribuição Distribution Ilayda Iseri
Prémios Awards
Menção Honrosa, Seattle Turkish FF, EUA | Melhor Filme Estudantil, Crossing The Screen FF, Inglaterra | Melhores Efeitos Visuais, Intl Uşak Short FF, Turquia | Melhor Filme, Egeart Short Film Competition, Turquia
Director’s Note
In “Game, Interrupted,” I aim to create a sharp contrast between the retrofuturistic sci-fi scenes with the documentary-style realistic depiction of the household in 1979’s Ankara, the capital of Turkey. This way, I intend to portray the weird socio-political atmosphere of the country in the most candid way through the eyes of children. It was the days just before the military coup intervention which commenced more conservative regimes in Turkey while in the neighbor regions like Iran, religious ideologies were rising radically. The Turkish middle class who generally admired the Western life style, followed these developments with concern but did not challenge to resist. On the other hand, unlike the desperate adults, the kids in the film are powerful enough not to submit to fate. The screenplay is based on a multi-layered story and the question “Who interrupts the game?” is resolved sequentially. There are several candidates for the answer. The goalkeeper taking a penalty, the explosion heard from the street, the mother who’s never seen, the grandmother who falls over the tent, and the intruder who waits at the door. The plot unfolds swiftly with twists and ends up with a hopeful crescendo. I tried to provide the creative background of the film by making references to the inspiring works of the masters and by including pop culture elements. Classic space scenes from Kubrick’s Space Odyssey, the solitude of two wandering siblings in Angelopoulos’ Misty Landscape, the circus tent in which Fellini’s childhood was seized, Wes Anderson’s pictorial cinematography, the daredevils of Stranger Things, 70’s events, television commercials, football matches and science fiction characters… Since I am an only child, what excited me the most while writing the script was the strong bond between the two siblings. I think there’s something magical about them nourishing each other’s imagination and creating a world of their own. I wanted to bring that magic to the big screen before I grew older, while I still look at the world with the eyes of a child.
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