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On the border between two countries, the hopes of a desperate man turn into the fear of losing everything.
Mahsum Taşkın born in Şırnak/ Turkey in 1994. In 2018, he graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine. During his university education, he took cinema classes from master directors like Özcan Alper and Kazım Öz. He worked as a scriptwriter, assistant director, and co-director in numerous short films.. His first short film as a director, Binbir Gece (2020) competed in many national and international film festivals. It won a Jury Special Award at the International Antalya Film Festival, Best Film Award at the Seattle Film Festival, and İFSAK (Istanbul Amateur Photography and Cinema Society) Jury Special Award. The film is still in the festival process. His second short film Garan has just been completed and is in the process of being submitted to the festival. His first feature Project Bekes selected for the Berlinale Talents Project Market. BEKES won the Talents Highlight Project Award in Berlinale.
- Year2024
- Runtime0:20:00
- LanguageTurkish
- CountryTurkey
- PremiereUSA
- GenreDrama
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorMahsum Taşkın
- ScreenwriterMahsum Taşkın
- ProducerVildan Ersen
- CastYavuz Akkuzu, Savas Isik, Sami Demir, Yusuf Taskin
- CinematographerSemih Yildiz
- EditorErhan Ors
- ComposerSemih Yildiz
- Sound DesignAdnan Akdag, Onan Karagozoglu
On the border between two countries, the hopes of a desperate man turn into the fear of losing everything.
Mahsum Taşkın born in Şırnak/ Turkey in 1994. In 2018, he graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine. During his university education, he took cinema classes from master directors like Özcan Alper and Kazım Öz. He worked as a scriptwriter, assistant director, and co-director in numerous short films.. His first short film as a director, Binbir Gece (2020) competed in many national and international film festivals. It won a Jury Special Award at the International Antalya Film Festival, Best Film Award at the Seattle Film Festival, and İFSAK (Istanbul Amateur Photography and Cinema Society) Jury Special Award. The film is still in the festival process. His second short film Garan has just been completed and is in the process of being submitted to the festival. His first feature Project Bekes selected for the Berlinale Talents Project Market. BEKES won the Talents Highlight Project Award in Berlinale.
- Year2024
- Runtime0:20:00
- LanguageTurkish
- CountryTurkey
- PremiereUSA
- GenreDrama
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorMahsum Taşkın
- ScreenwriterMahsum Taşkın
- ProducerVildan Ersen
- CastYavuz Akkuzu, Savas Isik, Sami Demir, Yusuf Taskin
- CinematographerSemih Yildiz
- EditorErhan Ors
- ComposerSemih Yildiz
- Sound DesignAdnan Akdag, Onan Karagozoglu