Official selection

Leading a reclusive life in his humble industrial abode where he works as a night guard, Kudret’s quiet life is shaken when a vagrant from the same hood assaults him and his puppy. Buckling under the oppression, Kudret is given an unexpected piece of power during a night stroll with his law enforcement friends. This power will be the beginning of his transformation. Kudret, bekçilik yaptığı sanayi atölyesinde köpeğiyle birlikte sessiz ve sakin bir yaşam sürmektedir. Ancak mahallenin serserisinin hem Kudret’e hem de köpeğine uyguladığı şiddet bu huzuru bozar. Zorbalığa karşı koyamayan Kudret, bir gece polis abileriyle çıktığı gezide beklenmedik bir güce kavuşur. Bu güç, onun için dönüşümün başlangıcı olacaktır.

A nude model is posing with statuesque stillness for an elite drawing class – until an unfortunate mosquito bite challenges his self-control. Driven to madness by the itch, he’s caught between the ruthless demand for perfection and his most unhinged, animalistic impulses.

A flickering diary of time, memory, and erosion, «Things Many Eyes Have Seen» unfolds over a month on an island. Hand-processed in salty seawater, its 16mm images dissolve and transform. The landscape flashes by in broken frames of light and shadow, as if the world itself was stuttering between memory and motion. A meditation on seeing and being seen, the film lingers like a fading dream, where observer and landscape blur into one.

Two saddles, one handlebar. Jan is the one riding, always getting his blind best friend safely to their destination. But how can they move forward together when each is following their own path?