Shell

Synopsis:
Burhan is a young man in his mid-twenties, who works at the post office. His job is allocating the incoming letters according to their addresses. He lives alone. His mother and sister are dead. His father is a retired army officer who is now a senile and lives in a clinic. He likes a girl that he has never disclosed his feelings to. He has his own way of building a relationship with her that causes him trouble. Despite the troubles he faces, he manages to go on with his life thanks to a letter addressed to someone else. Burhan will start behaving in an strange manner and he will pose as someone else through this letter. What will this new situation bring? Will the "shell" that Burhan lives in break? Will he find a way out from his alienated life?

About the director:
Uygar Asan was born in 1967 in Isparta. In 1995 he shot an experimental film entitled 13, and in 2003 he filmed short films entitled Rüzgârın Evi Nerede? / Where is the House of the Wind? and Sürekli Durağanlık / Perpetuum Immobile, as well as the documentary Boşluğa Atlayış: İlhan Usmanbaş / A Jump Into the Void: Ilhan Usmanbaş. In 2005, he directed his first full length film, Kış Bahçesi / The Winter Garden, which was filmed and screened digitally. Kabuk / The Shell, his second film, was filmed with the same resources. Between 1995 and 2002 he worked in many jobs nonrelated to cinema and was involved only with literature, publishing many poems and articles. In 2002 he returned to cinema and started working as a script-writer.