Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired international rights of Alireza Khatami’s “The Things You Kill.” The film is in post-production.
Khatami is already known for Cannes 2023 Un Certain Regard title “Terrestrial Verses” and “Oblivion Verses,” which was awarded best screenplay in Venice Horizons competition 2017 and won the Fipresci Prize.
Le Pacte will release “The Things You Kill” in France.
In the film, Ali, a university professor, is haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, and coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. As long-buried family secrets resurface, the police tighten their noose, and doubts begin eroding his conscience, Ali has no choice but to look into the abyss of his own soul.
The star-studded Turkish cast includes Ekin Koç (“Burning Days”), Erkan Kolçakköstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü (“The Wild Pear Tree”) and Ercan Kesal (“Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”).
Khatami said: “‘The Things...
Khatami is already known for Cannes 2023 Un Certain Regard title “Terrestrial Verses” and “Oblivion Verses,” which was awarded best screenplay in Venice Horizons competition 2017 and won the Fipresci Prize.
Le Pacte will release “The Things You Kill” in France.
In the film, Ali, a university professor, is haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, and coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. As long-buried family secrets resurface, the police tighten their noose, and doubts begin eroding his conscience, Ali has no choice but to look into the abyss of his own soul.
The star-studded Turkish cast includes Ekin Koç (“Burning Days”), Erkan Kolçakköstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü (“The Wild Pear Tree”) and Ercan Kesal (“Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”).
Khatami said: “‘The Things...
- 5/14/2024
- by Leo Barraclough and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Alireza Khatami, the Iranian director who co-helmed “Terrestrial Verses” — which denounced the country’s authority and was the only film from Iran at Cannes this year — is directing “Things That You Kill,” a political drama about the patriarchy set in Turkey and featuring a starry cast.
Shooting recently wrapped in Turkey on Khatami’s new film, which stars Turkish A-listers Ekin Koç (“Burning Days”), Erkan Kolçakköstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü (“The Protector”) and Ercan Kesal.
The Canada-based Khatami’s first feature, “Oblivion Verses,” won the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti award for best screenplay in 2017. “Terrestrial Verses,” which Khatami co-directed with Tehran-based Ali Asgari, recently premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes. Shot in Tehran after the Mahsa Amini movement started, “Verses” consists of nine tableaus depicting the increasingly absurd and tragic plight that Iranians face in their everyday life with a scathingly ironic deadpan tone.
Khatami describes “Things That You Kill...
Shooting recently wrapped in Turkey on Khatami’s new film, which stars Turkish A-listers Ekin Koç (“Burning Days”), Erkan Kolçakköstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü (“The Protector”) and Ercan Kesal.
The Canada-based Khatami’s first feature, “Oblivion Verses,” won the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti award for best screenplay in 2017. “Terrestrial Verses,” which Khatami co-directed with Tehran-based Ali Asgari, recently premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes. Shot in Tehran after the Mahsa Amini movement started, “Verses” consists of nine tableaus depicting the increasingly absurd and tragic plight that Iranians face in their everyday life with a scathingly ironic deadpan tone.
Khatami describes “Things That You Kill...
- 8/23/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Romantic comedy is probably regarded as the most worn-out genre. Especially when it comes to the template rom-com movies, where you can predict what will happen in the end from the very first minute. Netflix’s freshly baked Turkish rom-com Make Me Believe is exactly that kind. There is this girl and this guy who are at loggerheads, thanks to some past misunderstandings between them. There is the girl’s best friend. And the guy’s best friend. These best friends are hooking up. Both the girl’s and the guy’s grandmothers are trying to play cupid. Some routine work troubles the story arc. All these tropes are there. However, there is also a lot of effort involved, which is clearly visible.
Lifestyle magazine editor Sahra and reclusive photographer Deniz have their meet-cute when their grandmothers go Awol at Assos. It turns out the duo actually knew each other from their childhood,...
Lifestyle magazine editor Sahra and reclusive photographer Deniz have their meet-cute when their grandmothers go Awol at Assos. It turns out the duo actually knew each other from their childhood,...
- 6/24/2023
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
İsmet Ekin Koç, a well-known Turkish actor and musician, was born on June 21, 1992. After leaving Antalya, he pursued Business Administration (English) at Istanbul Bilgi University and began studying online education sociology as well.
Koç made his acting debut in the movie Senden Bana Kalan, an adaptation of the Korean movie A Millionaire’s First Love. He played the lead role of “Özgür Arıca” and won an Ayhan Işık Special Award for his performance. He then appeared as the one-eyed soldier “Mehmed” in the British movie Ali and Nino, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was based on Kurban Said’s novel (1937). Maria Valverde and Adam Bakri were the lead actors in the film.
Koç also starred in the film Bizim İçin: Şampiyon, which was based on the life story of jockey Halis Karataş. In addition, he produced and acted in the short film App.
Koç’s films Okul Tıraşı,...
Koç made his acting debut in the movie Senden Bana Kalan, an adaptation of the Korean movie A Millionaire’s First Love. He played the lead role of “Özgür Arıca” and won an Ayhan Işık Special Award for his performance. He then appeared as the one-eyed soldier “Mehmed” in the British movie Ali and Nino, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was based on Kurban Said’s novel (1937). Maria Valverde and Adam Bakri were the lead actors in the film.
Koç also starred in the film Bizim İçin: Şampiyon, which was based on the life story of jockey Halis Karataş. In addition, he produced and acted in the short film App.
Koç’s films Okul Tıraşı,...
- 6/23/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Make Me Believe (Sen Inandir) is a movie directed by Evren Karabiyik and Murat Saraçoglu starring Ayça Ayşin Turan and Ekin Koç.
He’s handsome, she’s beautiful, and together they are just stunning. . and more. They’ve known each other since they were kids, their grandmothers go to the beach together, and they both work in the fashion world. What did you expect? It’s going to be difficult for them, but they have an “unexpected” ally: the equally wonderful Turkish landscape.
Make Me Believe is, in case anyone hadn’t imagined it, a romantic comedy that you can enjoy on Netflix starting this Friday.
About the Movie
It has all the arguments that a good romantic comedy should have. Like in life, there are romantic comedies that focus on wit, while others, like this one, want to portray the world of the beautiful and cool in an innocent...
He’s handsome, she’s beautiful, and together they are just stunning. . and more. They’ve known each other since they were kids, their grandmothers go to the beach together, and they both work in the fashion world. What did you expect? It’s going to be difficult for them, but they have an “unexpected” ally: the equally wonderful Turkish landscape.
Make Me Believe is, in case anyone hadn’t imagined it, a romantic comedy that you can enjoy on Netflix starting this Friday.
About the Movie
It has all the arguments that a good romantic comedy should have. Like in life, there are romantic comedies that focus on wit, while others, like this one, want to portray the world of the beautiful and cool in an innocent...
- 6/23/2023
- by Susan Hill
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
In a display of authoritarian punishment, the principal (Mahir Ipek) of the Turkish boarding school where Ferit Karahan’s Brother’s Keeper is set seeks to remind the 11-year-olds under his care that they should feel lucky to be there. They get a stellar education (while having the Kurdish beat out of those who come from the Kurdistan region). They get three square meals a day (a pathetic ladleful of three creamy liquids and half a bread loaf to dip). And they’re even allowed to shower once a week (such luxury). Unfortunately, as a clandestine phone call home reveals (cells are off-limits), these prison-like conditions are luxurious to some. Most of these kids come from poor families of nine children with no real opportunities.
It’s thus unsurprising that a hierarchy of power forms throughout the building, whether amongst the adults, the children, or the obvious imbalance between the two.
It’s thus unsurprising that a hierarchy of power forms throughout the building, whether amongst the adults, the children, or the obvious imbalance between the two.
- 10/18/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Compassion is in almost as short supply as water in Emin Alper’s sardonic, seething Un Certain Regard breakout “Burning Days,” a parched little parable about small-town corruption in chokingly patriarchal rural Turkey. Beginning and ending on the lip of a massive sinkhole on the village outskirts, and featuring a manhunt that echoes a wild boar hunt and a mirage-like lake whose waters may or may not be toxic, here, the cool filmmaking is subtler than the metaphors. But then, with mass detentions during the recent Turkish Pride celebrations still in the headlines, when it comes to homophobia, misogyny, masculine crisis and the other attendant cruelties of this strongman-led society, these are not subtle times.
A more genre-inflected movie than Alper’s Berlinale competition title “A Tale of Three Sisters”, “Burning Days” benefits from Alper’s sparse, boiled-dry screenplay and from Dp Christos Karamanis’s casually devastating widescreen photography. In an emblematically sweeping shot,...
A more genre-inflected movie than Alper’s Berlinale competition title “A Tale of Three Sisters”, “Burning Days” benefits from Alper’s sparse, boiled-dry screenplay and from Dp Christos Karamanis’s casually devastating widescreen photography. In an emblematically sweeping shot,...
- 6/29/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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