Short Competition 2

0h 0m - Türkiye  

Sewing Machine

Zeynep, a textile worker, is laid off at the factory where she works. On her way home the same day, she finds a broken sewing machine next to a garbage bin. She takes the sewing machine home and repairs it. She clings to life again with the clothes she sews at home. Zeynep starts to gain her economic freedom and takes the first steps of a new life.

Clothesline

Items hanging on a clothesline represent the challenges and monotony women face when unable to pursue career and educational goals within an oppressive patriarchal society in this experimental short film. 

I You He/She We You They

When the draft law on the amnesty of sexual abuse through marriage was on government's agenda in Turkey 2016 and 2020, there was a great reaction among women. Film, tells the story of a young girl who is forced to marry the perpetrator of rape struggles between power, law, society and family. Salvation is in solidarity...

Frogs

One morning, a girl, who lives with her mother in a small-town, notices that the rubble is being removed from the field outside her window. This realization prompts her to reassess her life and the environment she lives in, as she spends most of her time in her room.

Lipstick

Sabahattin, a ten-year-old, sells water and tea on the streets in order to help his family earn a living. He surpasses the boundaries of the violent world that he was born into, with the help of his imagination and the superheroes in the comics he reads. When he understands the people are not aware of his existence, he thinks that he is invisible. His only wish is to become visible. The lipstick that Sabahattin takes in his hand in order to become visible, will change his life forever.

The Maze

While searching for an exit in the corridors of the labyrinth, a middle-aged man faces his past and through the cracks on the wall confronts his hidden conscience.

The Blue Monkey of Magus Baba

The story of a master toymaker who protects his bond with the past by keep producing hand-made toys in the modern world.

I am not Supermarket

Saffet(32), a veteran supermarket employee, lives in constant fear of losing his job as rumors circulate about an audit. The audit, aided by Mystery Shoppers, targets declining sales of the Supermarket. Saffet's paranoia grows, perceiving every customer as a potential threat. Saffet spirals deeper into a whirlpool of anxiety and uncertainty.

Mirror

God created the world in 6 days. Human beings came into the world and began to consume it. Until humanity itself is destroyed. Even though consumer humans bring about the end of the world, the world hides within itself the formula to repair itself. An allegorical apocalyptic story about people who turn into balloons, a tree of life without leaves and a weird shopping mall...

The Last Tree

What happens when the last tree on earth is cut down?

Balance

It touches on topics such as friendship, loneliness, poverty and interpersonal issues, as well as the relationship between humans and animals. It shows the realities of our daily lives in the world and the simple and very important values that we ignore without realizing it. It tells this chain of productivity in the world in a visual language in a positive and negative innovative way.

Dev’r’inim

An identity-less character residing peacefully within the forest, follows the trail of the lost dragonfly into the city. The person shapes itself with what it witnesses, while also destroying itself in the process. Enchanted by the city's enchantment, the character, even forgetting its purpose, gazes into the camera when it reaches the stairs. All that occurs exists for the camera, just like the eyes in our lives. Everything is within a cycle of destruction and construction. You can never look into the essence without breaking and fragmenting yourself. But no matter how much you break, the tiny gifts of every experience always remain within you. What you understand stays with you, and what remains is nothing but you.