Snow Pirates
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DIRECTOR: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu COUNTRY: Türkiye YEAR: 2015 LANGUAGE(S): Turkish SUBTITLES: German RUNNING TIME: 83 min
#SECTION: Open Eyes 2015, Little Big Films
SYNOPSIS
The three children Serhat, Gürbüz and İbo are growing up in Turkey. The winter is cold and there is a shortage of coal. Everyone is freezing. They go around on their sledges, collecting coal and narrate film plots to each other. When Vedat, a student, burns his books, it’s not only because of the cold.
The film could also have been called “Coal pirates” because coal is more important than gold. The boys have to help themselves and their families, but they face obstacles: Strict teachers, soldiers, masked agents. The film takes place in the early 1980s when Turkey was ruled by a military junta. (Luis, 13 years old)
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FARUK HACıHAFıZOğLU
Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu was born in Kars, Turkey in 1965. He took his degree in Agricultural Engineering from Akdeniz University in 1991, his Royal Society of Art Diploma in Photography from the University of Bristol in 1997, and a BA degree in Contemporary Media Practices from Westminster University in 2002. He worked as a journalist, photographer, producer and director. SNOW PIRATES is his first feature-length fiction film.
FILMOGRAPHY
Snow Pirates (2015)
SCRIPT: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu PRODUCER: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu CAMERA: Turksoy Golebeyi EDITORS: Orhan Orsman, Ayhan Ergusel MUSIC: Mehmet Unal CAST: Taha Tegin Ozdemir, Yakup Ozgur Kurtaal, Omer Uluc
PRODUCTION: Kars Film WORLD SALES: Match Point