Talent Camp

"Ne Kadar Uzak Çok Uzak"
Bige Akar Akın

A daughter finally finds her own path after the conflict between attachment and independence with her mother. She passes through dark and fearful paths and unties old knots. At the end of the journey, she forges a new bond with someone else. But these new bonds bring with them old fears and limitations.

“Başkalarının Evi (A House for Others)”
Ekin Akman

My character is someone who has become very disconnected from her body. People have always turned her “no” into a “yes.” She’s hurt even in relationships and interactions she thought she chose. As my character’s body gets damaged, her house gets more and more messy and things start breaking. But my character doesn’t/can’t fix any of this. And she continues to live her daily life as if nothing is wrong with the broken objects. She knows she won’t be able to easily relieve the pain in her body. As she contemplates her pain, she likens her experiences to dialogues. In this way, she tries to find a solution, wanting to return to her body. The things she thought she had allowed are emerging one by one.

"Gölge"
Musab Gündoğdu

On a rainy night, we’re in the small home of a family of four. Unable to sleep due to thunder, two siblings, terrified, crawl into their parents’ bed. But just then, a different sound is heard; it doesn’t sound like thunder. The father sits up and tries to turn on the nightlight, but the power is out. He pulls a flashlight from the drawer and shines it in the direction of the sound, but there’s only a blank wall in front of him. They go back to bed. After a while, the mother notices one of the younger children standing there, staring at the wall with a flashlight. The child declares that his brother is inside the wall. There’s a dark spot on the wall; as the flashlight shines, it shrinks and becomes motionless. The father and mother bring the flashlight closer to the darkness. The father opens the darkness with his hand and saves his daughter inside. At that moment, the flashlight falls to the ground, sparks a few times, and trembles. But the darkness demands more. When the flashlight’s light illuminates the room again, the family is gone. By morning, the neighborhood is left with only ashes, debris, and a cartoon that continues to play stubbornly.

“Ferit”
Gülşah Doğan

This animation tells the story of a person’s desire to kill another person without any concrete reason. At first sight, Ferit feels an indescribable feeling towards a young waiter working at the cafe he visits every day: the desire to kill. He knows nothing about this boy; he doesn’t even know his name, age, temperament, or orientation. The moment he sees him, he can’t help but feel this urge. Over time, this feeling grows into a passion, like love at first sight. In his mind, he begins to kill the boy in different ways each day: with a knife, a rope, an axe. The desire for violence isn’t driven by anger or hatred, but by a calm desire. The story, which oscillates between Ferit’s inner world and the real world, reaches a point where fantasy and reality intertwine. And one day, one of those mental scenarios becomes reality. Ferit actually kills the boy. Then, without any rush, he leaves the café, returns home, lies in the bathtub, and peacefully closes his eyes. This striking and disturbing story, which explores the meaningless desire for violence that blossoms within a person and how this desire gradually gives way to reality, asks the audience, “Why do we kill someone?” The answer is simply: “Because we want to.”

"Kanatlı Ağaç"
Burak Varlık

In a vast valley lies a lonely juniper tree. It finds a thrush egg among its branches. The egg breaks. The tree protects the bird. The tree raises and feeds the thrush, and it discovers a sense of motherhood it never knew existed. Migration time arrives, and the thrush leaves. Each time, it revisits the tree and tells it about the places it has seen. The tree loves to listen to its stories. Bird migration time no longer comes. The tree waits for it with great hope, and over time, it grows old. Years later, the bird returns. It sees the tree dying and sadly departs. It returns with hundreds of its companions. They land on the tree’s branches. Together, flapping their wings, they uproot the tree and fly away. The tree is now a tree with hundreds of wings. They float in the sky. The bird shows the tree where it has gone. The tree realizes something: the trees below resemble it. The bird carries seeds from the tree wherever it goes. Together, they fly towards the sunset and eternity.

"Nuclear Faint"
Yaşar Karataş

The year is 2356. After nuclear war and a climate crisis, the Earth has become uninhabitable. Complete control has fallen into the hands of a militaristic corporation called Sabuka, which has developed cyber bodies compatible with this new world. A minority group, who call themselves resistance fighters, are trying to liberate the world from Sabuka’s thrall, doing everything in their power to achieve this. The resistance fighters’ goal is to destroy a Sabuka-owned train, its wagons filled with weapons and ammunition. A resistance fighter, who has infiltrated the train’s upper deck, encounters one of Sabuka’s renowned soldiers just as he’s planting the bomb. The two clash, and a fight ensues. A fellow resistance fighter, noticing the situation in the distant mountains, rushes to his aid. He kills the Sabuka soldier and rescues his friend in seconds before the explosion.