Archive Cinema City 2011.

Black and White

Siyah Beyaz

Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Year: 2010
Duration: 92 min

Director: Ahmet Boyacıoglu
Scenario: Ahmet Boyacıoglu

Cast: Tuncel Kurtiz, Erkan Can, Nejat Isler, Taner Birsel, Sevval Sam, Derya Alabora, Riza Sonmez

Programme selection: Exit Point

Synopsis:

A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling down despite his 70 years; a lawyer who packed in his job after suffering a heart attack and now pursues a quiet life looking after his pet snail; a doctor already disenchanted with his profession and now discarded by his wife; a career woman braving life on her own, who has made loneliness a lifestyle.

These characters are all patrons of Black & White, an Ankara bar that has been around for 25 years, and in a sense the bar is their last haven. The owner, meanwhile, is the irritable, easily offended but utterly lovable Faruk...

Black & White is a film about the awareness of growing old, friendship, sensitivity and the finer details of life.

Awards:

Special Prize of the Jury, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival, 2010


 

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