19min, Turkey, 2021

 

Screenplay: Mehmet Akif Guler

Cinematography: Celal Topçu

Editor: Safa Yumuşak

Music: Ali Saran

Producer: Mehmet Akif Guler

Production Company: Rumman Yapım

Synopsis:

Abdullah Milhim is a photographer trying to announce by photographing what is going on in the war zone, Syria to the world. Once, he goes to photograph a just bombed region, he sees an aged man inside the ruins. He is influenced deeply by the situation of the aged man who is just standing and crying while people are escaping and wounded are carried in the chaos, and so he takes the man’s photo. At the very moment, aircraft noise is heard and a bomb is dropped near them. After that day, Abdullah starts looking for his last photo, a new arm and his future…

 

Filmography:

Scissors (2023), Last Photo (2021), Bean (2020), Being a Family (2018), About This (2015)

 

Festivals and Awards:

The Impact DOCS Awards - Award Winner

Bosphorus Film Festival Finalist 2021 Finalist

European Union Human Rights Film Competition Finalist

Antep Short Film Festival 2021

23rd Izmir Short Film Festival Panorama Selection

Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival - Selected

Reality Bytes Independent Student Film Festival - Selected

ROFIFE - Selected

The 4th Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival - Selected

Common Good International Film Festival - Selected

Heritage Film Festival 2022 - Selected

Other Venice Film Festival - Selected

DokuBaku IDFF - Selected