Watchtower

Product Description Haunted by a tragic incident, Nihat isolated himself by becoming a fire warden in a remote observation tower far out in the wilderness. Seher lives in a makeshift room at a rural bus station, and she has taken a job as a bus hostess to escape her own traumatic past. Destined to come to a crossroads, they go about their solitary lives until their fates collide. Beginning at first as muted antagonism, their relationship quickly turns into tender domesticity as they settle together at Nihat's mountain-side watchtower. Yet the weight of the past presses on the silence between them, serving as the ultimate catalyst in their impassioned relationship with each other, and with higher powers that guide their spiritual lives. Review (A) lovely gem... Original, well-made and dramatically fulfilling - Wendy Mitchell, Screendaily --Screendaily WINNER: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor Adana Golden Boll Film Festival --Adana Golden Boil Film Festival --Golden Boil Film Festival NOMINATED: Tiger Award Rotterdam International Film Festival --Tiger Award Rotterdam International Film Festival WINNER: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor Adana Golden Boll Film Festival --Adana Golden Boil Film Festival --Golden Boil Film Festival NOMINATED: Tiger Award Rotterdam International Film Festival --Tiger Award Rotterdam International Film Festival About the Actor Olgun im ek was born in the village of Yenice in Büyükorhan, Bursa. His father was a primary school teacher and his mother was a housewife. He graduated in theatre from the Istanbul University State Conservatory and began acting professionally in 1993. im ek acted in the play Otogargara with Demet Akbag and Yilmaz Erdogan. He had a small part in the films Tersine Dünya in 1993 and Yer Çekimli A klar in 1995. In 1998, he acted in the film Kar k Pizza for which he won the Most Promising Actor award at the Ankara Film Festival. Sim ek also had appearances in television series such as Sihirli Ceket, Yedi Numara, Be ik Kertmesi ve Alacakaranl k. In 2004, he starred in the film Yaz Tura directed by U ur Yücel where he played a disabled soldier. For this, he won several awards, including the Golden Orange for 'Best Actor', as well as 'Best Actor' awards at the Ankara Film Festival, Istanbul Film Festival, Adana Golden Coccoon Festival and the S YAD awards. About the Director Pelin Esmer was born and raised in Istanbul. After she majored in sociology in Istanbul, she attended the cinema workshop of the Turkish director Yavuz Ozkan. She worked as a first assistant director in a number of Turkish and foreign projects. She gave lectures about documentary filmmaking at Istanbul Kadir Has University in Istanbul. She founded her own film company, Sinefilm, in 2005, and currently produces her own projects as an independent director and producer, together with her producer colleagues Tolga Esmer and Nida Karabol Akdeniz. Her first documentary film, The Collector (2002), was screened in many festivals. Her first feature documentary, Oyun (The Play), premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2005. It has screened in over 50 festivals around the world and received many awards, including: The Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award; at the Tribeca Film Festival. Her first feature, 10 to 11, was one of the six chosen projects by Cannes Film Festival s Résidence du Cinéfondation in Paris, where she worked on her script in 2007. An official selection of the San Sebastian Film Festival, 10 to 11 received many awards in various festivals around the world. The directors of world s leading film festivals selected her as one of the world s most promising directors in the Take 100: The Future of Film: 100 New Directors (Phaidon). She completed her second feature fiction Watchtower in 2012.