Films

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
2700 24th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

Free parking available


Mommo-Kiz Kardesim/The Bogeyman			Sonbahar/Autumn
3:30 PM			5:45 PM
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Ticket Prices:
$8 at the festival (TurkFest Booth)
$10 at the door
$9.20 Online at Brown Paper Tickets

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Mommo-The Bogeyman

2009, 94 minutes, Color
Turkish with English subtitles

Directed by Atalay Tasdiken

Starring Elif Bulbul, Mehmet Bulbul, Mete Donmezer, Mustafa Uzunyilmaz, Mehmet Usta, Ali Bakir, Mehmet Cigdem

Can a boy of nine be a big brother, a father, a mother and a luminary all at once? For young Ayşe, the answer is yes. In fact, as far as she's concerned, her big brother Ahmet is afraid of nothing at all. However, the truth is, Ahmet is a child as well. He, too, has fears and knows that it is impossible for him to know everything.

Their father Kazım has gone off to marry another woman and abandoned the two children to their fate with Hasan, their crippled elderly grandfather. In spite of everything, brother and sister never seem to lose hope.

This simple, poignant tale of a village, and the relationship between a brother and sister in that village, portrays one of the grittier realities of Anatolia.

Autumn

2008, 99 minutes, Color
Turkish with English subtitles

Directed by Ozcan Alper

Starring Onur Saylak, Raife Yenigul, Megi Kobaladze, Serkan Keskin, Nino Lejava, Sibel Oz, Cihan Camkerten, Serhan Pirpir, Yasar Guven

Sentenced to jail in 1997 as a university student aged 22, Yusuf is released on health grounds 10 years later. He returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region where he is welcomed only by his sick and elderly mother. It turns out that his father died while he was in jail and his older sister got married and moved away to the city. Economic factors mean that it's almost exclusively old people who live in the mountain village, and the only person Yusuf sees is his childhood friend Mikail.

As autumn slowly gives way to winter, Yusuf goes with Mikail to a tavern where he meets Eka, a beautiful young Georgian hooker. Neither the timing nor circumstances are right for these two people from different worlds to be together. Love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness - for Yusuf, at least. For Eka, Yusuf is something like a character from the pages of a Russian novel who inhabits a faraway world and a faraway time.

With the 1990s as a backdrop, the film at once documents and criticizes a slice of recent history, exposing the irony, ruthlessness and reality of the period.