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Completed - DUTCH, TURKISH - Drama - 100 minutes

Log Line

Turquaze: two lovers, two cities and two families. With Love, from Istanbul.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2009 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2010 (Line up)
  • Berlin EFM 2011 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2011 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Kadir BALCI
Writer(s) : Kadir BALCI
Cast : Burak BALCI, Charlotte VANDERMEERSCH

Producer(s) : Dirk IMPENS (Menuet)

Synopsis

Having buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16), return to Ghent, Belgium. Their mother remains in Istanbul. The three brothers resume their lives but need to find a new balance.
While Ediz plays the dominant father and Bora does silly things with the wrong friends, Timur tries to fulfil his father’s dream: playing the trumpet in a brass band. Sarah, Timur's girlfriend, thinks it’s cool, until she realises how little he seems to notice her now…
Turquaze presents a disarmingly honest chronicle of a Turkish family’s life in Ghent … Turkish for beginners!

Production

Country(ies) : BELGIUM

Financing plan : Gu-Film (TR)
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), VRT, Kinepolis Group, Prime, Lumière, MEDIA – EACEA, City of Ghent, Province of Eastern Flanders



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