Pelin Esmer
Nascimento : 1972-01-01, Istanbul, Turkey
História
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
Leyla, a lawyer and a poet, takes the long-distance train to attend her high school reunion dinner. On the train, she meets Canan, a young nursing student in distress. As the conversation develops, Leyla learns that Canan is travelling to assist with the suicide of a paralysed man, Yavuz, who wants to die. At the end of the long over- night trip, surrounded by the stories of people both on and off the train, Leyla decides to accompany Canan on her difficult visit.
Producer
Leyla, a lawyer and a poet, takes the long-distance train to attend her high school reunion dinner. On the train, she meets Canan, a young nursing student in distress. As the conversation develops, Leyla learns that Canan is travelling to assist with the suicide of a paralysed man, Yavuz, who wants to die. At the end of the long over- night trip, surrounded by the stories of people both on and off the train, Leyla decides to accompany Canan on her difficult visit.
Writer
Leyla, a lawyer and a poet, takes the long-distance train to attend her high school reunion dinner. On the train, she meets Canan, a young nursing student in distress. As the conversation develops, Leyla learns that Canan is travelling to assist with the suicide of a paralysed man, Yavuz, who wants to die. At the end of the long over- night trip, surrounded by the stories of people both on and off the train, Leyla decides to accompany Canan on her difficult visit.
Director
Leyla, a lawyer and a poet, takes the long-distance train to attend her high school reunion dinner. On the train, she meets Canan, a young nursing student in distress. As the conversation develops, Leyla learns that Canan is travelling to assist with the suicide of a paralysed man, Yavuz, who wants to die. At the end of the long over- night trip, surrounded by the stories of people both on and off the train, Leyla decides to accompany Canan on her difficult visit.
Writer
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own.
Director
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own.
Producer
Mithat coleciona jornais no seu apartamento em Istambul. Os outros inquilinos o ridicularizam, e ele leva uma vida solitária. Ao saber que o edifício será reformado, ele faz amizade com o zelador Ali, outro solitário, que o ajuda a salvar sua coleção. Sem querer, um acaba mudando o destino do outro.
Editor
Mithat coleciona jornais no seu apartamento em Istambul. Os outros inquilinos o ridicularizam, e ele leva uma vida solitária. Ao saber que o edifício será reformado, ele faz amizade com o zelador Ali, outro solitário, que o ajuda a salvar sua coleção. Sem querer, um acaba mudando o destino do outro.
Writer
Mithat coleciona jornais no seu apartamento em Istambul. Os outros inquilinos o ridicularizam, e ele leva uma vida solitária. Ao saber que o edifício será reformado, ele faz amizade com o zelador Ali, outro solitário, que o ajuda a salvar sua coleção. Sem querer, um acaba mudando o destino do outro.
Director
Mithat coleciona jornais no seu apartamento em Istambul. Os outros inquilinos o ridicularizam, e ele leva uma vida solitária. Ao saber que o edifício será reformado, ele faz amizade com o zelador Ali, outro solitário, que o ajuda a salvar sua coleção. Sem querer, um acaba mudando o destino do outro.
Editor
Quando nove camponesas de uma aldeia montanhosa no sul da Turquia decidem escrever e representar uma peça de teatro sobre suas histórias de vida, surgem aspectos de suas personalidades que elas nunca sequer tinham reparado. De repente, os maridos passam a ter mais respeito por elas.
Director of Photography
Quando nove camponesas de uma aldeia montanhosa no sul da Turquia decidem escrever e representar uma peça de teatro sobre suas histórias de vida, surgem aspectos de suas personalidades que elas nunca sequer tinham reparado. De repente, os maridos passam a ter mais respeito por elas.
Producer
Quando nove camponesas de uma aldeia montanhosa no sul da Turquia decidem escrever e representar uma peça de teatro sobre suas histórias de vida, surgem aspectos de suas personalidades que elas nunca sequer tinham reparado. De repente, os maridos passam a ter mais respeito por elas.
Writer
Quando nove camponesas de uma aldeia montanhosa no sul da Turquia decidem escrever e representar uma peça de teatro sobre suas histórias de vida, surgem aspectos de suas personalidades que elas nunca sequer tinham reparado. De repente, os maridos passam a ter mais respeito por elas.
Director
Quando nove camponesas de uma aldeia montanhosa no sul da Turquia decidem escrever e representar uma peça de teatro sobre suas histórias de vida, surgem aspectos de suas personalidades que elas nunca sequer tinham reparado. De repente, os maridos passam a ter mais respeito por elas.
Director of Photography
Este é um documentário sobre um colecionador apaixonado. Um homem que faz coleções há 70 anos, de tudo o que se possa imaginar. Ele vive na sua própria casa como hóspede de suas coleções e está sempre em busca de novas descobertas.
Producer
Este é um documentário sobre um colecionador apaixonado. Um homem que faz coleções há 70 anos, de tudo o que se possa imaginar. Ele vive na sua própria casa como hóspede de suas coleções e está sempre em busca de novas descobertas.
Director
Este é um documentário sobre um colecionador apaixonado. Um homem que faz coleções há 70 anos, de tudo o que se possa imaginar. Ele vive na sua própria casa como hóspede de suas coleções e está sempre em busca de novas descobertas.
Producer
A film by Pelin Esmer
Writer
A film by Pelin Esmer
Director
A film by Pelin Esmer
