FUTURE LASTS FOREVER
by Özcan Alper
synopsis
An achingly reflective road movie, tracing a young Turkish woman’s voyage to find her Kurdish lover, who has left to take up the fight of his people. Sumru, an ethnomusicologist armed with a tape recorder, decides to find and record the elegies, or testimonies, of Kurdish survivors of Turkish atrocities. These are eloquently delivered, mostly by women whose men have been killed — often right before their eyes. But the underlying reason for Sumru’s trip is to find the man who claimed her heart.
international title: | Future Lasts Forever |
original title: | Gelecek Uzun Surer |
country: | Turkey, France, Germany |
year: | 2011 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Özcan Alper |
film run: | 108' |
release date: | IE 24/02/2012, FR 18/04/2012 |
screenplay: | Özcan Alper |
cast: | Gaye Gursel, Durukan Ordu, Sarkis Seropyan, Osman Karakoc, Erdal Kirik |
cinematography by: | Feza Caldiran |
film editing: | Ayhan Ergürsel, Thomas Balkenhol, Özcan Alper, Umut Sakallioglu |
art director: | Tolunay Turkoz |
music: | Mustafa Biber |
producer: | Ersin Celik, Soner Alper |
production: | Arizona Films Productions, unafilm, Nar Film/Kadıköy |
distributor: | Arizona Films Distribution |