Hasret
Yearning
A small film crew arrives in Istanbul. They have been commissioned to
make a film about the city for a minor TV channel. They start work immediately, filming interviews with the first people they
meet, and then heading out onto the streets to film the many, very varied districts and denizens of Istanbul: an eccentric
historian who believes that there was a civilization of cats before humanity, a Sufi dervish who has opened a café for lovers
and mad people, an Armenian journalist, an Alevi communist, a religious zealot and a philosophical tea lady …
Director's Biography
BEN HOPKINS, born in Hong Kong in 1969 and raised in London,
is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker and screenwriter. His 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep received the Award for Best European
Documentary at the Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival and The Market: A Tale of Trade won several prestigious awards. // Films
(selection): Simon Magus (1999), The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz (2000), 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep (2006, doc), Pazar: Bir Ticaret
Masali (The Market: A Tale of Trade, 2008; CE’09), Welcome to Karastan (2014; CE’16), Hasret (Yearning, 2015, doc)
European Panorama Documentary 2016
Ben Hopkins
Germany 2015
color
82
minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Ben Hopkins, Ceylan Ünal Hopkins
Cinematography
Jörg Gruber
Editing Levent
Çelebi
Sound/Sounddesign Ben Hopkins, Bilge Bingül
Music Efe Akmen, LewQ
Producer(s) Mustafa Dok (Bredok Film Production, DE), Hans W. Geißendörfer (gff,
DE)
Production
Bredok Film Production Tempelherrenstraße
19 10961 Berlin, Germany info@bredok-filmproduction.com www.bredok-filmproduction.com
Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Silk Road International Film Festival
Fuzhou 2015
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere
Silk Road International Film Festival
Fuzhou 2015
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere