Synopsis

Uğur Çiçek migrates from Elbistan to France in 1980. So far, he has been living in France for thirty three years. He owns a little restaurant in Strasbourg. He has a point of view that makes him to differ from others and to be stranded in the middle as he describes by himself…

Director's statement

“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.” – Carlos Fuentes

Director's short bio

Gözde started her MFA studies in Film at San Francisco Art Institute in Fall 2013. Meanwhile, She is a research assistant in School of Communication Sciences Department of Cinema&TV in Anadolu University. She graduated from the same school in 2011. She realized her first short film in Noorderlicht Film, The Netherlands. She made her second film by attending an EU financed creative documentary project “North Aegean Narratives” both in Greece and Turkey by sharing experiences with fifteen other selected documentary filmmakers from both countries. Efe realized her latest short documentary in Strasborug, France while attending an annual workshop of Nisi Masa European Network of Young Cinema “Generator 2013”. Her project with co-director Hande Zerkin, Vineyard, is awarded by the General Directorate of Cinema Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture. Gözde is also awarded by the San Francisco Art Institute for her Master of Fine Arts degree in Film, in 2013.