Bulutlari beklerken
Waiting for the Clouds
Feeling lost and alone after her sister’s death, Ayşe begins to act
distant and aloof with everyone in the village. This worries Mehmet, the boy next door, who enjoys listening to her stories.
Mehmet is really upset when she withdraws in her tiny cabin in the highlands and refuses to return to the village. Isolated
among the clouds, she gradually manages to confess her guilt for abandoning her younger brother when they were children. And
determined to regain her past, she decides to travel to Greece … Yeşim Ustaoğlu’s script for Waiting for the Clouds won the
2003 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award.
Director's Biography
YEŞIM USTAOĞLU, born in 1960, is an award-winning director
from Çaykara, Turkey. She directed several shorts before making her feature film debut with The Trace in 1994. She received
international recognition for her 1999 film Journey to the Sun, winning several international awards. // Films (selection):
İz (The Trace, 1994), Güneşe Yolculuk (Journey to the Sun, 1999), Bulutlari Beklerken (Waiting for the Clouds, 2004), Pandora’nin
Kutusu (Pandora’s Box, 2008; CE’09), Araf (Araf – Somewhere in Between, 2012; CE’13), Tereddüt (Clair Obscur, 2016)
Spotlight 2017
Yeşim
Ustaoğlu
France / Germany
/ Greece /
Turkey 2004
Color
92
minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Petros Markaris, inspired by the book "Tamama" by George Andreadis
Cinematography Jacek Petrycki
Editing Timo Linnasalo, Nicolas Gaster
Sound/Sounddesign
Bernd von Bassewitz, Christophe Winding
Music Michael
Galasso
With Rüçhan Çaliskur, Ridvan Yagci, Ismail
Baysan, Dimitris Kaberidis
Producer(s)
Setareh Farsi, Behrooz Hashemian (Silkroad Production, FR), Murat Çelikkan (Ustaoğlu Film, TR), Helge Albers (Flying Moon,
DE), Fenia Cossovitsa (Ideefixe, GR), Yalandünya (TR), ZDF/Arte (DE), Arte France Cinéma (FR)
Production
Silkroad Production 8 rue Myrha 75018 Paris, France info@silkroadproduction.com
www.silkroadproduction.com
Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Berlin International Film Festival 2005
Berlin International Film Festival 2005