Oyunbozan
INSTITUTE: Bogazici University
YEAR: 2023
LANGUAGE: Turkish
SYNOPSIS: 1979, Turkey: While the mood on the streets of capital Ankara is filled with tension shortly before the military coup, two young people, one brother and his sister, find their way out of boredom by switching from one game to another during their winter break. Their mother is at work all day and their grandmother is sleeping on the couch as usual. However, something goes wrong that day.
PROFILE: Ilayda Iseri is a 20-year-old director and composer from Turkey. Her short documentaries Kozan (2020) and The Fountain (2021) were screened at important festivals and received international recognition. With her first fiction short film Game, Interrupted, she became the youngest director in Turkey to receive funding from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. The film also won the best screenplay award at Akbank Film Forum, an honorable mention in STFF, and screened at Tampere Film Festival for the world premiere. She is currently studying philosophy and physics at Bogazici University while working as the assistant director of Sundance winner Tolga Karacelik.
