Murat Fıratoğlu

One Of Those Days Where Hemme Dies

Every day we are saved from a hundred different deaths. Yet from the possibility of killing someone. While we are absorbed in our own stories, a man, who is just about to kill somebody, passes by.

DIRECTOR/WRITER
Murat Fıratoğlu

PRODUCER
Nefes Polat

PRODUCTION COMPANY
Nefes Films

COUNTRIES
Turkey

GENRE
Fiction

Murat Firatoglu

MURAT FIRATOĞLU (1983), between 2004-2008, took lessons in scriptwriting, directing, camera, light, sound and editing in workshops held by Diyarbakır Art Center Cinema Club and attended other filmmaking programs organised by Kars Film Festival between 2007-2011. He participated in the film production and directing workshops organised by Reha Erdem in 2013. In 2016 he joined the screenplay writing training program held by Altyazı Cinema Magazine. In 2017 he attended a film production workshop held by Yapımlab. He lives in Istanbul and works as a lawyer.

Whose story should be told? The story of a stray bug, a tree, an older man that lingers around, a guy who talks nonstop, a baker, a greedy contractor or that of a red 1986 motorcycle? I wanted to show one ordinary day in the life of EYÜP, a poor, unsuccessful city boy working hard to dry and salt tomatoes under the boiling summer sun. A typical day with jokes and usual worries proceeds with Eyüp getting frustrated for not being given his daily wage and deciding to kill HEMME but ends up at a wedding where the two men join the same halay as Eyüp is constantly diverted with the trivialities by unaware townsmen during the day. In this film, I particularly aim to reveal how all human behaviour loses its dramatic, tragic and comical aspects on the periphery of these stories. In the end, we all join the halay. Just as in the well-known poem by Cemal Süreya, We are in a tram that leads us from Laleli to the world.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Nefes Polat

NEFES POLAT is a member of the European Film Academy, APSA and Film Independent. She is a Berlinale Talents and Talents Sarajevo alumna and received VFF Berlinale Talent Highlight Award in 2017. She has a film-making degree and started her career producing an MA project of Eli Kasavi at London Film School in 2012. She worked as the head of production for Mars Production. Concentrating on co-productions since 2015, she has produced films pre-sold in Europe and won success in film festivals.

Production company profile

NEFES FILMS, established in 2018, operates in independent film production and provides executive production services all around Turkey. The first feature film of the company, PENNY BANK (2020), won the Best Debut Film Award at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, where it premiered. The recent feature film of the company, SNOW AND THE BEAR (2022), is a Turkey-Germany-Serbia co-production supported by Eurimages.

Where are we at?

TOTAL ESTIMATED BUDGET
40.000 €

NEEDED FOR COMPLETION
15.000 €

TERRITORIES UNAVAILABLE
None

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