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Contemporary Turkish Cinema Küçük Kıyamet / The Little Apocalypse 2006, 90 minutes,35mm, color, Turkish with English subtitles  Monday, October 15, 6:30 pm Tickets at the Box Office Directed by Yağmur and Durul Taylan Screenplay by Doğu Yücel Editing by Çiçek Kahraman Cinematography by Soykut Turan Art Direction by Yaşar Kartoğlu Music by Kevin Moore Produced by Hayri Aslan, Limon Yapım Starring Başak Köklükaya, Cansel Elçin, Binnur Kaya, İlker Aksum, Bora Akkaş, Ece Ekşi, Serra Gürgünlü, Arda Seçilmiş, Berrin Arisoy and Eli Mango Contact Information Ercüment DursunLimon Production E. İsmail Hakkı Bey Sok., No: 3 Balmumcu, Beşiktas, 34349 İstanbul, Turkey Tel: +90 212 347 3450 Fax: +90 212 266 1086 Email: edursun@limonproduction.com |
Bilge lives a quiet and comfortable life in İstanbul with her spouse Zeki, daughter Eda and newborn child Alp. The family, who could not take a vacation for a long time due to the busy schedule of Zeki, rent a villa in Fethiye, a resort town in Turkey. The night before they hit the road, an earthquake hits İstanbul. The luxury villa located on a mountain seems wonderful at first glance with its pool and garden, but the graveyard near the house makes them uneasy. Meanwhile in İstanbul, the chaos caused by the earthquake continues. Bilge, who lost her mother in the great 1999 earthquake, starts having nightmares. The rest of the family shares her unease as they become aware that strange events occur in and around the villa. Emphasizing the facts that Turkey will continue to be hit by earthquakes and the governments have not done much to protect the people after the devastating earthquake of 1999, screenwriter Doğu Yücel says: “Horror cinema does not only consist of creatures, devils and ghosts. This style also has emotional, intellectual and political content. There may not be any political words in The Little Apocalypse but its subtext is completely political.” From the Press We wanted to make a film about our own mortality and used the earthquake for that purpose. Although the issue of death is taken on a personal level, it is true that people all around the world expect an earthquake to hit İstanbul and other parts of the world. There are pessimistic expectations about the future on a mass scale. There is the problem of global warming and the radio news keep talking about the premature blooming of the flowers. This is the general mood in the world. Human beings are facing nature everywhere. As we achieve more security against natural forces through social measures that improve with modernity, we try to forget about nature. But nature does not allow us to do so. In fact, the more we try to forget about it, the more it reminds us of itself. Unfortunately, our relationship with nature has not been resolved fully. We wanted to talk about these issues. We wanted to point out that we live in this city and this world and whatever we do, there are things that we cannot run away from. We did not want the message to be too depressing. After all, death is a part of our nature and should be perceived as such. |
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