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Aidiyet

Belonging
Forum 2019
© Kuyu Film
Aidiyet is a contemporary thriller that maps out a criminal case, though it’s the very opposite of a genre film. In a voice-over delivered in the sober tone of a confession, a man reconstructs the murder of his future mother-in-law. Acting on the wishes of her daughter, his lover, he hired a contract killer to murder her because she opposed their relationship. All that the film shows are the many locations that make up the tragedy: a tidy apartment, the bus station in Ankara, the parking lot, the hallway, the murder victim’s bed… On the way back to Istanbul, the motorway by night becomes a screen onto which the terrible inner torment of someone with a life on his conscience is projected. Then the film changes perspective and shows how the lovers met and what preceded the bloody deed. These seemingly harmless images and conversations become charged by the viewer’s prior knowledge, as if in a psychosis. Why did the mysterious Pelin hate her parents so much? That’s a question the film doesn’t answer. In Aidiyet, Burak Çevik conducts an elegant, exciting, and instinctual experiment with the detective impulses of his audience.

Trailer/Film Excerpt

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by Burak Çevik (Written and Directed by)
with Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Eylül Su Sapan Turkey / Canada / France 2019 Turkish 72' Colour World premiere

With

  • Çağlar Yalçınkaya (Onur)
  • Eylül Su Sapan (Pelin)

Crew

Written and Directed by Burak Çevik
Cinematography Barış Aygen
Editing Burak Çevik, Ali Aga
Music Mine Pakel
Sound Design Yalın Özgencil
Sound Ahmet Gürbüz
Production Design Dilşad Aladağ
Costumes Dilşad Aladağ
Producers Burak Çevik Fol Film, Selman Nacar Kuyu Film, Mustafa Uzuner Acéphale, Kerem Ayan

World Sales

Fol Film

Istanbul, Turkey

Produced by

Fol Film

Istanbul, Turkey

Kuyu Film

Istanbul, Turkey

Acéphale

Montreal, Canada

Kerem Ayan

Paris, France

Photos

Burak Çevik

© Edze Ali

Born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1993. He completed his studies in Film and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2016. After his debut, Tuzdan kaide, Aidiyet is his second feature-length film.

Filmography

2018 Tuzdan kaide (The Pillar of Salt); 70 min., Berlinale Forum · Tuzdan kaide (The Pillar of Salt); 70 min., Forum 2018 2019 Aidiyet (Belonging) · Aidiyet (Belonging); 72 min., Berlinale Forum · A Topography of Memory; video, 30 min. 2020 While Cursed by Specters; video, 10 min. 2022 A Woman Escapes; co-directed by Blake Williams & Sofia Bohdanowicz, 81 min. 2023 Unutma Biçimleri (Forms of Forgetting); 70 min.

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023