Documentary and Short Film Competition ATAIn Competition Friday, December 4, 2009, 6 p.m.
Directed by Cagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
International Vaulx-en-Velin Short Film Festival, France (2009): Youth Jury Award Synopsis Ceyda, a young Turkish women from a high social class, arrives in France to live with the man she loves. But very soon, she has to face an unexpected loneliness… until when she meets, on the construction site next door, an old Asian man, who turns out to speak a language close to hers.
They were then selected at 2 Direction Residences in South Italy. They directed, in particular, under the guidance of Abbas Kiarostami, the documentary fiction Carnegami, winner of Special Prize of the Jury in Saint-Maur Festival (France, 2006), Best Film Award in Noci (Italy, 2007), and screened in many festivals in Europe, North America and Asia.
Directors have just finished Six, a documentary fiction shot in Japan, which premieres at the 20th International Documentary Festival Marseilles. They are also working on their first feature film, DIL !, a road movie through Pakistan, between fiction and documentary. The Film Project, developed in a residency in Le Moulin d'Andé, France, was selected to the European Union-supported Mediterranean Films Crossing Borders Programme in San Sebastian, to the MEDIA-supported co-production markets Mannheim Meetings (Germany) and Alba Projects (Italy), and has been awarded the CNC Feature Film Development Grant of the Mediterranean Festival of Montpellier. In 2007, it was granted the MEDIA program Feature Film Development Fund, which allowed the co-directors to make several months of location scouting and pre-castings on stage in 2008, before the shooting, planned in 2009.
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Cagla Zencirci (Ankara, 1976) and Guillaume Giovanetti (Lyon, 1978) directed several documentaries in the Middle East and Central Asia, among which Recovering Barn, shot in Iran, was awarded the Special Prize of the Jury in Ankara in 2005 and purchased by Planète.
They had the opportunity to shoot a fiction documentary, shantyGARDENtown in Turkey and Germany, which competed in Berlinale 2007 and was awarded the Best Short Documentary Award in Barcelona (Spain, 2007). The film was also broadcasted on TVE, the Spanish national TV channel, and currently is screened in all Europe. 
