Ararat

Zeynep has caused a traffic accident in Berlin. To escape the consequences, she flees to her parents’ home in rural eastern Turkey. The atmosphere in this remote house at the foot of Mount Ararat is one of speechlessness and cold-hearted anger: each family member harbours personal and professional secrets that also affect the others. It appears that there is as much simmering below the surface within this family as there is deep beneath the snow-covered, dormant volcano that looms like a portent against the night sky. Zeynep’s self-destructive, sexually assertive behaviour causes the entrenched conflicts and tissue of lies that exist between mother, father, daughter and the people around them to burst open, hurling repressed feelings to the surface like magma.
In his feature film debut, director Engin Kundağ portrays relationships that are painfully dysfunctional on both private and social levels. In his assuredly composed, impressively dark tableaux, the barren landscape is mirrored in the sparse communication – and vice versa.
by Engin Kundağ
with Rasim Jafarov, Merve Aksoy, Funda Rosenland, Aziz Capkurt, Baran Seyhan
Germany 2023 German,  Turkish,  Subtitles: German,  English 95’ World premiere | Debut film

Perspektive Match

On February 23, editor Evelyn Rack will be a guest of the Perspektive Match series of films and talks.

With

  • Rasim Jafarov (Hasan)
  • Merve Aksoy (Zeynep)
  • Funda Rosenland (Fatma)
  • Aziz Capkurt (Ali)
  • Baran Seyhan (Doğan)
  • Engin Kundağ (Zeynep’s Husband)
  • Aysel Roza (Ibadova)

Crew

DirectorEngin Kundağ
ScreenplayEngin Kundağ
CinematographyMikołaj Syguda
EditingEvelyn Rack
Sound DesignLeandros Ntounis
SoundSamet Yilmaz
CostumesAva Kundağ
Production DesignNadide Argun Van Uden
Make-UpElif Kayran
CastingAva Kundağ, Engin Kundağ
Assistant DirectorMajid Bakhtiari
Production ManagerEkrem Çelik
ProducersMarkus Kaatsch, Engin Kundağ
Executive ProducerBaran Seyhan
Co-ProductionSaarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken
In Cooperation withArte

Produced by

Zeitgeist Filmproduktion

Berlin, Germany

zeitgeist-film.de zeitgeist-film.de

Engin Kundağ

Born in Germany in 1984, the filmmaker attended school in the USA. He studied philosophy and psychology, followed by screenwriting and directing at the international film school (ifs) in Cologne from which he graduated in 2012.

Filmography (selection)

2012 Ararat; short film 2014 Torn; short film 2017 Hunt; short film 2023 Ararat

Dates

Wed Feb 22 12:00

Cubix 2

Screening for press and industry professionals | With accreditation only

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Wed Feb 22 19:00

International

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Thu Feb 23 10:00

Cubix 6

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Fri Feb 24 16:30

Zoo Palast 3

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Fri Feb 24 16:30

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Fri Feb 24 16:30

Zoo Palast 5

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Sat Feb 25 21:30

Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

Q&A after the film with German Sign Language Interpreter

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