Film Programme
The Prayer
fiction,
Wed, 17:00
Turkey , 2011, 14'36''
Director: Tuna Balkan
Producer: Bahadır Tumba
Director of photography: Mehmet Y. Zengin
Writer: Tuna Balkan, Hafize Balkan
Composer: İmaj
Editor: Çiçek Kahraman
Synopsis: The lonely gravedigger of a big, silent cemetery in the heart of
nature. His health is no longer well, combined with the effects of
aging. He tries hard to hold on to life, but he can’t get the thought of death out of his mind.
Director: Tuna Balkan
Tuna Balkan (Edirne, 1981) is a graduate of Marmara University, the Department of Fine Arts. Feeding his curiosity in cinema with art, Tuna Balkan sees cinema as a neverending process.