STFF SHORTS 2020 PRE-JURY MEMBERS:
Burak Boyacioglu, Burak Senol, Demet Kitis, Ela Furat Ezgi Yucel, Irem Gokce Aydin, Lisa Waagd, Nural Sumbultepe, Ozgur Arman, Peri Aytac, Senay Cebioglu
STFF SHORTS 2020 PROGRAM
Grand Jury Award : $500
To be announced in October 2020
Audience Award : $300
To be announced in November 2020
BEST ACTRESS
UMUT ALAZ KÖKÇÜ | TURKEY | 2020
Melis, a post-graduate student meets with a 70’s erotic movie star to write a thesis on her career and the period. As Melis keeps interviewing her, she realizes this former star Alev Hanzade has a blurry past and dark secrets.
FREE FUN
FEHMI ÖZTÜRK | TURKEY | 2020
When Kika entered to have fun in game, she encountered something she never expected. Nothing will be the same anymore.
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
MAHSUM TASKIN | TURKEY | 2020
Seyithan (12) living in a Kurdish Village in Eastern Turkey meets the tales of The Thousand and One Nights and seeks a way to find missing parts given by the school teacher to his classmates.
TURNIN TO DUST
HÜSEYIN AYDIN GÜRSOY | TURKEY | 2020
Elif is working clandestinely in France with her husband. Drowned in debts, they may return to Turkey if they can't get the money their boss owes them. But Elif doesn't want to ruin her son's chances of a better future. She has no intention of giving up.
AYLIN
OZAN YOLERI | TURKEY | 2020
Twelve-year-old Irmak idolizes her older teenage friend Aylin, who for Irmak embodies excitement, independence and womanhood. When Aylin plans to move away with her boyfriend, Irmak begins to realize that her feelings for her friend are more complicated than she knew.
BREAK OFF
ÖYKÜ ORHAN | TURKEY | 2020
Zeliha, mother of two children, is a poor laborer who works in a steel soucepan factory. One day, she is fired as an unexpected moment. While she is attempting to find new job, she also searchs for solution in order to prevent children noticing this situation. A solution created by her, shows deadlock condition as a result of poverty.
CLEATS
ABDULLAH ŞAHIN | TURKEY | 2020
Ilyas and Ahmet are two close friends. Emir, the refugee completes the gang. Ilyas wants to make the tryouts for a local football team and saves money to buy new cleats. Emir shares his ideal. After seeing his father pays the debts of Emir’s family at the grocery store, Ilyas gives his new cleats as a gift to Emir in order to join to the tryouts. However, his own cleats tear up just after. The shoemaker gives him a bigger cleats temporarily. The tryouts morning one of Ilyas’ cleats drops to the river. When Ilyas and Ahmet try to take it out, Emir surprises them with what he’s done.
OCTOPUS
ENGIN ERDEN | TURKEY | 2020
“Octopus” is a short film that follows 8 and 9 year-old best friends Ece and Efe on a hot, lazy summer day in Aegean seaside. Ece and Efe encounter different adults until they get tired of being pushed around and make a plan to prove themselves. But they are not aware of the price that they will have to pay for it.
RAIN, SNORKEL & GREEN BEANS
YAVUZ AKYILDIZ | TURKEY | 2020
It is just an ordinary day after thirty-two years. The son confronts the father with all his courage and tells him that he will not live with him anymore but will leave the house. His bag is on his back. He wants to discover both himself and a life he doesn't know. But, it will be much more difficult than he thinks to turn this desire into reality.
SOME CATS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
EMRE SEFER | TURKEY | 2020
Ma'am in her 50s continues her life isolated from the human beings. Every day at the same time, she leaves the house and feeds the cats in the park. One day she is almost hit by Bahadır’s car, and their life gets entangled from that day on.
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