Tayfun Pirselimoğlu

Tayfun Pirselimoğlu

Рождение : , Trabzon, Turkey

История

Tayfun Pirselimoğlu (born 1959, Trabzon) is a Turkish director, screenwriter and producer. Pirselimoglu graduated from Middle East Technical University after which he went to Vienna and studied painting at Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst (Academy of Applied Arts) He held various exhibitions in different cities of the world, including Vienna, Istanbul, Ankara, Budapest, Tallinn, etc. He is one of the founders of the independent art initiative of Akademie Genius which he lectured on scriptwriting, cinema, and painting. He also conducted workshops on film making in Wien, Athens, Ankara, etc. Pirselimoglu wrote six novels(Tales from the Desert, Album of the Missing Persons, Melancholia, Towers of the City, Kerr and the Barber) and three storybooks (Rooms of the Hotels, The Newest Lives of Harry Lime and Other Side of the Desert). He started his film career as a scriptwriter and wrote various scripts of shorts and features. He directed his first short film 'Dayim' (My Uncle) in 1999 and then 'Il Silenzio e d'Oro' (Silent is Golden) in 2002; both have received numerous international awards. In 2002 he also shot 'Hiçbiryerde' (In Nowhereland), his first feature film supported by Eurimages which has also received many awards. He shot the trilogy of 'conscience and death' including 'Riza' (Riza) 2007 premiered in Berlinale Forum, 'Pus' (Haze) 2009 premiered as well in Berlinale Forum, and 'Saç' (Hair) 2010 premiered in Locarno FF, all awarded. SIDEWAY (2017) premiered in Warsaw and has received 6 awards by many festivals. The shooting of his last feature film, adapted from the book named Kerr, was completed in 2020.

Профиль

Tayfun Pirselimoğlu

Фильмы

Kerr
Writer
Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don't allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.
Kerr
Director
Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don't allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.
Sideway
Writer
The residents of a small town set between a stormy sea and an ominous forest are becoming insane. They are convinced that successive signs appearing in the town are indications of doomsday.
Sideway
Director
The residents of a small town set between a stormy sea and an ominous forest are becoming insane. They are convinced that successive signs appearing in the town are indications of doomsday.
I Am Not Him
Screenplay
Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her obvious seductive approaches embarrass Nihat and make him nervous at the same time. Despite the rumors about her husband having been sentenced to many years in jail, Nihat reluctantly accepts Ayşe’s invitation to dinner at her house. This is the beginning of a strange and dangerous liaison. When Nihat discovers a picture of the woman’s husband and realizes that he looks astoundingly like him, the relation becomes even more toxic.
I Am Not Him
Director
Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her obvious seductive approaches embarrass Nihat and make him nervous at the same time. Despite the rumors about her husband having been sentenced to many years in jail, Nihat reluctantly accepts Ayşe’s invitation to dinner at her house. This is the beginning of a strange and dangerous liaison. When Nihat discovers a picture of the woman’s husband and realizes that he looks astoundingly like him, the relation becomes even more toxic.
Hair
Screenplay
A wig-maker from Istanbul, who suffers from cancer, becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day.
Hair
Director
A wig-maker from Istanbul, who suffers from cancer, becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day.
Haze
Screenplay
Reşat, a withdrawn and asocial young man who works at a pirate DVD shop, represses his feelings for the girl next door, and adds excitement to his life with petty theft. The film turns into a thriller when the shadowy Celal, a friend of Reşat's boss, gets shot just after he leaves a package in the shop and Reşat has to make sense of the photo and the gun it contains.
Haze
Director
Reşat, a withdrawn and asocial young man who works at a pirate DVD shop, represses his feelings for the girl next door, and adds excitement to his life with petty theft. The film turns into a thriller when the shadowy Celal, a friend of Reşat's boss, gets shot just after he leaves a package in the shop and Reşat has to make sense of the photo and the gun it contains.
Боль осени
Writer
Сын богатого землевладельца-националиста Бехчет по желанию своего отца и благодаря его связям окунается в политическую жизнь. Пусть некоторые вещи в мире и не соответствуют его моральным нормам, но в целом он находит правильной свою националистическую позицию. Бехчет верит, что турецкая нация взята в осаду Западом, ясный пример чему события на Кипре. Посреди всего этого политического, а также благодаря отцу еще и личного напряжения он влюбляется в свою соседку гречанку Элену, проститутку для чиновников высшего ранга...
Rıza
Director
Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being prepared to commit a brutal crime.
In Nowhere Land
Writer
Sükran's son Veysel works in a factory. Suffering as a result of her husband's political actions, she tries to save her son from the same fate.
In Nowhere Land
Director
Sükran's son Veysel works in a factory. Suffering as a result of her husband's political actions, she tries to save her son from the same fate.
My Uncle
Director
“My Uncle” tells the story of a man who realizes his passion for flying one day and descends into the desert 42 years later, through his nephew’s mouth.
The Trace
Writer
Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in her home. Kemal suspects that this is a murder and obsesses over the dead man's face.
Otel
Writer
The film is an investigation of a hotel that no one can leave.
Idea
Director
Kemal is a guard at an empty villa belonging to a dark businessman outside the city. One night, he finds a book called IDEA, left by someone whose face he cannot see, on the bus he occasionally goes to the city. After, Kemal’s life begins to turn to hell in a way that he could never understand.