Director: Ahmet Uluçay
Screenplay: Ahmet Uluçay
Cinematographer: Ilker Berke
Editing: Mustapfa Preseva, Senad Preseva
Sound: Ender Akay
Music: Alper Tunga Demirel, Ender Akay
Cast.: Smail Hakki Taslak, Kadir Kaymaz, Gulayse Erkoc, Boncuk Yilmaz, Hasbiye Gunay, Mustafa Coban, Fizuli Caferov, Ahmet Uluçay, Aysel Yilmaz
Production: IFR
Distribution:
ASC Distribution
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75012 Paris
Tel: 0033-1.43.48.65.13
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 2004
35 mm, Color, 97 min,
OV Turkish with French subtitles
Best Film Ankara International Film Festival 2005
We are in Tepecik, an Anatolian village, in the sixties. Recep and Mehmet are two young farmers apprenticed one to a hairdresser and the other to a watermelon seller. Both are mad about cinema. At night in an abandoned cowshed, they try to build a makeshift projector under the eyes of Omer, the village idiot. They dream of becoming directors, which would totally change the course of their lives. One day, Recep meets Nezihe who is a widow. He promises he will bring her watermelons every day. This is how he is introduced to her elder daughter Nihal and Güler, the younger one. As his visits go by, Recep falls in love with Nihal, while Güler feels attracted to Recep…
“Boats Bound-of-Watermelon Rinds”- an expression invented by Kemal to illustrate the difficult objectives to achieve - is a largely auto biographical film full of freshness and emotion.
