2001, 120 minutes    Online tickets!

Directed, written, and edited by Zeki Demirkubuz
Cinematography by Ali Utku
Art Direction by Bahar Engin
Starring Serdar Orcin, Zeynep Tokus, Engin Gunaydin

The first of a planned trilogy by the accomplished 38-year-old director, the film is loosely based on Albert Camus' masterpiece The Stranger. Like Mersault in the novel, Musa is a middle-aged man who has largely given up on the idea of free will and lives with no sense of direction, resigned to let life take its own course. As fate would have it, that course includes death, marriage, and imprisonment for a crime he did not commmit.

This year, Fate (Yazgi) and Confession (Itiraf)) - the second film in the trilogy - were both shown at Un Certain Regard, the sidebar competition at the Cannes Film Festival, marking the first time ever that two features by the same director were screened in one year. Both films won the Best Director prize at the Istanbul Film Festival and also a FIPRESCI (International Critics Association) award. Fate (Yazgi) also won for Best Director, Best Film, and Best Art Direction at the 38th Golden Orange Film Festival in Antalya, Turkey.

Awards:

2002 Istanbul International Film Festival (Turkey): Best Director in
National Competition; FIPRESCI (The International Federation of Film Critics) Award: Best Film in National Competition
2001 Ankara Film Festival (Turkey): Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Upcoming Actor
2001 Antalya Film Festival (Turkey): Best 3rd Film, Best Director, Jury Special Award


Festivals:

2003 Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland)
2003 Viennale International Film Festival (Austria)
2002 Cannes Film Festival (France): Official Selection - Un Certain Regard
2002 Flanders Film Festival (Belgium)