12th BOSTON TURKISH FESTIVALSM

Colors of Anatolia
 
OCTOBER 29 - DECEMBER 15, 2007
 
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DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM COMPETITION

 

Friday - November 23, 2007    at 7 p.m.


Main Auditorium
Harvard Film Archive
Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge
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In Competition

THE LAST GAME

Son Oyun

Written and directed by Mujde Arslan

Cast:
Hasan Gunyar, Ilyas Bestan

Short / Turkey / 2006 / 13 min.



A story of friendship told through a very special relationship of two old men who live in ghettos of the city. They live in two distant corners, but yet, everyday they cross the city with many difficulties to meet and play chess. It is a place far from the city where skyscrapers are seen behind haze. Do these two old kings have any chance to win this game against the city?

 

 


Director MUJDE ARSLAN:

Mujde Arslan was born in 1981 in Mardin. She received her undergraduate degree from Dicle University's Biology Department. She got her master's degree from the Faculty of Communication - Marmara University, Department of Cinema.  She has worked as  a journalist in DIHA (Dicle News Agency), and “Yedinci Gundem” and "Gundem" newspapers.  She also writes essays on culture and cinema published in various magazines and newspapers. She received various national and international awards with "The Last Game", including Marmara University Best Cinematography Mention Award; PAM Environmental Film Festival - Encourage Award; Tohum Short Film Festival - Love and Friendship Award; Mediterranean Short Film Festival of Tangier - Mention Award. After her first short film, "The Last Game", she directed another short, "Nora", and a TV documentary, "Second Address". She is also the author of the book, "Rejisor Atif Yilmaz", based on interviews made with the legendary Turkish film director late Atif Yilmaz.