InFocus Film School FP59 Graduation Screenings
InFocus Film School FP59 Graduation Screenings
Thu, Feb 16, 6:30 PM
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts • Vancouver, BC
$14.11
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Don't Tell Orhan Pamuk That His Novel Snow Is In The Film I Made About Kars
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SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts 149 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4 Canada
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DON'T TELL ORHAN PAMUK THAT HIS NOVEL SNOW IS IN THE FILM I MADE ABOUT KARS
DIR Rıza Sönmez / Turkey / 2016 / 83 MIN / w/ English Subtitles / G
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Sunday June 11th at 1:00pm
SYNOPSIS
The Turkish city of Kars is well known as the setting for Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel laureate’s novel, ‘Snow’. Riza Sönmez, a popular actor in Turkey, went to Kars for a film shoot. He met disgruntled locals who claimed that ‘Snow’ in no way reflected life in their city. Their observations inspired him to improvise this docudrama. We meet Kazim, a barber whose walls are covered with photographs of people, streets and objects that are supposed to depict scenes from Pamuk’s novel. We also meet Yüksel, a visually impaired singer who is engaged in a frustrated search for musicians to perform with him at a restaurant.
Sönmez’s debut as a director is a truly original and mildly absurd film experience that playfully blurs the lines between imagination and reality.
CAST
Yüksel Ermutlu, İsrafil Parlak, Vildan Atasever, Haydar Koçolu