Pelin Esmer
출생 : 1972-01-01, Istanbul, Turkey
약력
Pelin Esmer, writer & director of both fiction and documentary films, studied sociology and afterwards moved on to cinema. She established her film company Sinefilm and since 2001 she has made her independent films The Collector, The Play, 10 to 11, Watchtower, Something Useful and Queen Lear together with her producer friends Nida Karabol, Tolga Esmer and Dilde Mahalli.
A feature documentary, The Play made its international premiere in San Sebastian Film Festival. It has been screened over 50 festivals around the world and received many awards including “The Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award” in Tribeca Film Festival. Her first fiction 10 to 11 was one of the six projects chosen by Cannes Film Festival’s Résidence du Cinéfondation in Paris where she worked on the script. An official selection of San Sebastian Film Festival, 10 to 11 received many awards in various festivals around the world and was released in cinemas in Turkey, France and Germany. Her second fiction Watchtower which premiered in Toronto and Rotterdam Film Festival has been screened in many countries and five different states of USA as part of the Caravanserai Program.
Something Useful received the best screenplay award in Tallinn International Film Festival besides several FIPRESCI awards in Turkey: best director, best screenplay and best actress.
In 2018, Pelin Esmer was invited to Berlin by DAAD Artists-in-Residence Program where she developed her last documetary film Queen Lear. Having premiered in Sarajevo Film Festival, Queen Lear received Yılmaz Güney Award and SİYAD Cüneyt Cebenoyan Award at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival in Turkey while being screened in oversea festivals.
Pelin Esmer was a guest artist in the residence of Camargo Foundation in Cassis-France between september-november 2019, working on her new project.
Russian Girl
One day waves bring a wooden statue of Lenin to a small town by the Black Sea. The statue is erected in the town square by the Municipality with the hope that it would attract tourists to the town. As an official opening ceremony is planned with the participation of the Prime Minister and a Russian delegation, the statue gets stolen. Two police investigators from Ankara are assigned to find Lenin in twelve hours. Townspeople give an unexpected answer to the question «Where is Lenin?».
Director
Shakespeare's 'King Lear' travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into 'Queen Lear' in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group. In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted out their own life stories in the village, and the play changed their lives. Now, they take to the road with an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, traveling the dusty, dangerous roads to the farthest-flung mountain villages where there isn't even running water. On the road, their lives merge with the world of King Lear and become bound up with "the good and the bad", "the young and the old", "the rich and the poor", "the honest and the dishonest" of the play.
Editor
이미 20여 년 전에 고등학교를 졸업한 변호사 레일라는 문득 고등학교 동창회에 참석하기로 하고 야간열차에 오른다. 그리고 이 기차에 배우를 꿈꾸는 간호대학 학생 카난도 함께 탄다. 주인공들의 이야기는 물론 야간열차 3등칸의 독특한 분위기와 기차 밖의 풍경 이미지도 깊은 인상을 남기는 작품. 2017년 터키영화비평가협회상 각본상, 여우주연상(바삭 코클루카야), 남우조연상(이지트 오즈세너) 수상.
Producer
이미 20여 년 전에 고등학교를 졸업한 변호사 레일라는 문득 고등학교 동창회에 참석하기로 하고 야간열차에 오른다. 그리고 이 기차에 배우를 꿈꾸는 간호대학 학생 카난도 함께 탄다. 주인공들의 이야기는 물론 야간열차 3등칸의 독특한 분위기와 기차 밖의 풍경 이미지도 깊은 인상을 남기는 작품. 2017년 터키영화비평가협회상 각본상, 여우주연상(바삭 코클루카야), 남우조연상(이지트 오즈세너) 수상.
Writer
이미 20여 년 전에 고등학교를 졸업한 변호사 레일라는 문득 고등학교 동창회에 참석하기로 하고 야간열차에 오른다. 그리고 이 기차에 배우를 꿈꾸는 간호대학 학생 카난도 함께 탄다. 주인공들의 이야기는 물론 야간열차 3등칸의 독특한 분위기와 기차 밖의 풍경 이미지도 깊은 인상을 남기는 작품. 2017년 터키영화비평가협회상 각본상, 여우주연상(바삭 코클루카야), 남우조연상(이지트 오즈세너) 수상.
Director
이미 20여 년 전에 고등학교를 졸업한 변호사 레일라는 문득 고등학교 동창회에 참석하기로 하고 야간열차에 오른다. 그리고 이 기차에 배우를 꿈꾸는 간호대학 학생 카난도 함께 탄다. 주인공들의 이야기는 물론 야간열차 3등칸의 독특한 분위기와 기차 밖의 풍경 이미지도 깊은 인상을 남기는 작품. 2017년 터키영화비평가협회상 각본상, 여우주연상(바삭 코클루카야), 남우조연상(이지트 오즈세너) 수상.
Writer
산불감시원 니핫은 숲속 깊은 곳에 있는 망루에 머물며 외부 사회와 고립된 삶을 살고 있다. 한편 버스 차장 세헤르는 버스를 타고 튀르키예 전역을 떠돌아다니는 생활을 하고 있다. 그러던 중 두 사람은 어느 동네 식당에서 우연히 만나고, 니핫은 어려움에 처한 세헤르에게 도움의 손길을 건넨다. 2013년 로테르담영화제 경쟁부문 상영.
Director
산불감시원 니핫은 숲속 깊은 곳에 있는 망루에 머물며 외부 사회와 고립된 삶을 살고 있다. 한편 버스 차장 세헤르는 버스를 타고 튀르키예 전역을 떠돌아다니는 생활을 하고 있다. 그러던 중 두 사람은 어느 동네 식당에서 우연히 만나고, 니핫은 어려움에 처한 세헤르에게 도움의 손길을 건넨다. 2013년 로테르담영화제 경쟁부문 상영.
Producer
Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be renovated, Mithat develops a friendship with concierge Ali, another loner, who helps him save his collection. They involuntarily change each other’s fate.
Editor
Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be renovated, Mithat develops a friendship with concierge Ali, another loner, who helps him save his collection. They involuntarily change each other’s fate.
Writer
Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be renovated, Mithat develops a friendship with concierge Ali, another loner, who helps him save his collection. They involuntarily change each other’s fate.
Director
Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be renovated, Mithat develops a friendship with concierge Ali, another loner, who helps him save his collection. They involuntarily change each other’s fate.
Editor
When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their personalities emerge that they never knew existed. Esmer's documentary observes the creative stages leading up to the production of the play, and shows us how nine subtly but significantly different women emerge after its staging.
Director of Photography
When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their personalities emerge that they never knew existed. Esmer's documentary observes the creative stages leading up to the production of the play, and shows us how nine subtly but significantly different women emerge after its staging.
Producer
When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their personalities emerge that they never knew existed. Esmer's documentary observes the creative stages leading up to the production of the play, and shows us how nine subtly but significantly different women emerge after its staging.
Writer
When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their personalities emerge that they never knew existed. Esmer's documentary observes the creative stages leading up to the production of the play, and shows us how nine subtly but significantly different women emerge after its staging.
Director
When nine peasant women from a mountain village in southern Turkey decide to write and perform a play based on their life stories, aspects of their personalities emerge that they never knew existed. Esmer's documentary observes the creative stages leading up to the production of the play, and shows us how nine subtly but significantly different women emerge after its staging.
Director of Photography
This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who lives in his own house like a guest of his collections. A man who tries to freeze time, as if to hold on to present. In this documentary, you will follow this passionate collector through the vivid streets of Istanbul, among the crowd, in search of new collection items while trying to understand his perception of life and collection.
Producer
This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who lives in his own house like a guest of his collections. A man who tries to freeze time, as if to hold on to present. In this documentary, you will follow this passionate collector through the vivid streets of Istanbul, among the crowd, in search of new collection items while trying to understand his perception of life and collection.
Director
This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who lives in his own house like a guest of his collections. A man who tries to freeze time, as if to hold on to present. In this documentary, you will follow this passionate collector through the vivid streets of Istanbul, among the crowd, in search of new collection items while trying to understand his perception of life and collection.
Producer
A film by Pelin Esmer
Writer
A film by Pelin Esmer
Director
A film by Pelin Esmer
