Cold of Kalandar

…beautifully shot, but it works as tightly focused drama, too

Hollywood Reporter

Archive - Festival 32
Director: Mustafa Kara
Turkey, Hungary 2015
134 minutes
Turkish
Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Mehmet lives with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region and can barely scratch a living. His family urges him to take a job in a nearby mine, but Mehmet has bigger dreams. He spends every single moment he can roaming the mountains, searching for veins of valuable metals. And one day he stumbles on another idea.
Filmmaker Mustafa Kara draws a simple, moving portrait of a desperate life, touching on the need to survive, the power of hope and the relationship between nature, animals and man.
Filmography: Hope Island (2006).

The Director will be attending the October 21st screening.

Director Mustafa Kara
Production Nermin Aytekin
Script Mustafa Kara, Bilal Sert
Cinematography Cevahin Sahin, Kursat Uresin
Editing Umut Sakallıoglu, Ali Aga, Serhat Solmaz, Mustafa Kara
Music Eleonore Fourniau
Festivals Tokyo (Best Director Award), Angers (Special Jury Award) Istanbul (Best Director, Actor, DoP and Editor), Antalya (Best Actor, Actress and Music)
Actors Haydar Sisman, Nuray Yesilaraz, Hanife Kara, Ibrahim Kuvvet, Temel Kara
Source Kara Film, Istanbul