Tereddüt
Clair Obscur
Turkish writer-director Yeşim Ustaoğlu offers a parallel study of two
women – a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household – in this
study of the possibilities and limitations that exist for women in Turkey today. In her most politically charged film to date,
Turkish writer-director Yeşim Ustaoğlu revisits her previous films’ themes of alienation and the longing to escape, viewing
them through a distinctly female lens. In Clair Obscur, a film about the lives of two women from opposing worlds, Ustaoğlu
explores the different possibilities and limitations that exist for women in Turkey today. […] As Ustaoğlu intercuts and eventually
intersects Chenaz and Elmas’ stories, we begin to understand that their lives may have more in common than it appears at first
glance. (Kerri Craddock, Toronto International Film Festival)
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
Turkey / Germany
/ Poland /
France 2016
color
105
minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Cinematography
Michael Hammon
Editing Agnieszka
Glińska, Svetolik Mica Zajc
Sound/Sounddesign Guido
Zettier, Bruno Tarrière
Music Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz
With Funda Eryiğit, Ecem Uzun, Mehmet Kurtuluş, Okan Yalabık, Serkan Keskin, Sema
Poyraz
Producer(s) Yeşim
Ustaoğlu (Ustaoğlu Film, TR), Titus Kreyenberg (unafilm, DE), Klaudia Smieja, Eliza Oczkowska (Aeroplan Film, PL), Marianne
Slot (slot machine, FR)
Production
Ustaoğlu
Film Gazeteci Erol Dernek Sokak, Yeni Melek Han 17/8, Beyoğlu 34433 Istanbul Turkey ustaoglu@ustaoglufilm.com www.yesimustaoglu.com
Austrian Premiere
Weltpremiere / World Premiere Toronto International Film Festival 2016
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere