Oray
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2019
DEU 2019
by: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Deniz Orta, Zejhun Demirov
Oray
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2019
DEU 2019
by: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Zejhun Demirov, Faris Yüzbasioglu, Ferhat Keskin
Oray
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2019
DEU 2019
by: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Feb 11, 2019Deniz Orta
The actress visited the premiere.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Oray
Feb 11, 2019Zejhun Demirov
The actor at the premiere.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Oray
Feb 11, 2019Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
The director at the Photo Call.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Oray
Feb 16, 2019Katja Eichinger, Vivian Qu, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Claus Reichel, Bastian Klügel, Alain Gomis
The winners in conversation with the jury.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Oray – Closing Gala – GWFF Best First Feature Award
Feb 16, 2019Film team
The winners on the Red Carpet.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Oray – Closing Gala – GWFF Best First Feature Award
Feb 16, 2019Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Claus Reichel, Bastian Klügel
Overwhelmed.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Oray – Closing Gala – GWFF Best First Feature Award
Feb 16, 2019Award Ceremony
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Oray – Closing Gala – GWFF Best First Feature Award
In an argument with his wife Burcu, Oray pronounces the Islamic word for separation, ‘talaq’. The Imam informs him of the consequences: Oray must now part from Burcu for three months. Oray uses the enforced break in their relationship to make a fresh start and moves to Cologne. Here, he finds a job at a flea market and seeks out a new Muslim religious community, led by the young Imam Bilal. Soon, Oray begins preaching himself; he is especially popular with the younger members of the congregation, and this makes Bilal jealous. When Burcu pays her husband a surprise visit, they realise that the break has done them good and they still love each other. Oray asks Bilal for advice. But the latter advocates a stricter interpretation of Islamic law than the imam in Oray’s community back home: pronouncing ‘talaq’ he says, does not mean a break, but a divorce. Director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay employs a quasi-documentary style to tell the story of an individual exhausting himself as he works his way through a religion’s complex belief system and his search for fulfilment as a human caught between his belief in love and his love for his faith.
by
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Germany 2019
German, Turkish, Romani
100’ · Colour · 2K DCP
World premiere
Zejhun Demirov (Oray)Deniz Orta (Burcu)Cem Göktaş (Bilal)Faris Yüzbaşıoğlu (Tanju)Mikael Bajrami (Ebu Bekir)Fırat Barıs Ar (Abdussamed)Kais Setti (Muhammed)Ferhat Keskin (Süleyman)Şahin Eryılmaz (Hamza)Ramon Machtolf (Osman)
Born in Bad Hersfeld, Germany in 1987, he grew up in the German city of Hagen. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with a focus on film and literature and is a fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He currently lives and works in Cologne.
Filmography2008 Wie ich lernte Skifahren zu hassen; short film 2012 Ömer, the Lord; short documentary 2013 Vor dem Tor des Ijtihad; short film 2014 31 Szenen einer Jugend; experimental short film 2016 Der Metzger; short film 2018 Oray
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
filmfaustwww.filmfaust.org
Pluto Filmwww.plutofilm.de/