Special Screenings · 47th Edition
Sevda
Director
Ufuk Emiroglu
Country
Switzerland, Belgium, Türkiye
Runtime
1 h 41 min
Language
Turkish
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Sevda, a real estate developer, plays an active role in Istanbul’s relentless gentrification. When an old cemetery keeper stands in her way and her buried family past begins to surface, she discovers that her own story is far more entangled with the city’s history than she ever imagined.
Cast
Mert Firat, Macit Koper, Ercan Kesal
Screenplay
Ufuk Emiroglu, Ercan Kesal
Producers
Akka Films, Bir Films, Stenola Productions
About the Director
A Swiss director and screenwriter of Turkish descent whose work moves between fiction and documentary to explore the ties between personal memory and collective history. After her hybrid film My Father, the Revolution and Me screened at Locarno and FIPADOC and was nominated for the Turkish Film Critics Award, Sevda marks her feature-film debut.
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