Film Night at The Museum
Film Night at The Museum
Contemporary Turkish Films with English subtitles
In collaboration of Hürriyet Daily News
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My Marlon and Brando
16 October 2010 Saturday
17:30
Director Hüseyin Karabey in conversation
Suna
and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum in collaboration with Hürriyet
Daily News for the fall season is presenting "Film Night at the Museum" -
special screening nights of contemporary Turkish films with English
subtitles.
The program begins on the 16th October Saturday at 17:30 with Hüseyin Karabey's My Marlon and Brando (Gitmek)film.
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The film made in 2008 is based on actress Ayça Damgacı when she
first met fellow thespian Hama Ali Khan when they were working on a film
together. The two quickly fell in love, and what first seemed like an
on-set romance soon proved to be something much deeper. However, Ayça
was from Turkey and Hama was an Iraqi Kurd, and as U.S. forces were
poised to invade his homeland, he was unable to come to Istanbul to see
her. Instead, Hama began sending Ayça a series of video letters in which
he proclaimed his love for her while offering a portrait of the tension
and violence that was sweeping through Iraq. Deeply moved by his
videos, Ayça decided to throw caution to the wind and travel to Iraq to
be with the man she loved.
However, as American forces marched
into Iraq, getting into the country proved impossible, and she found
herself stranded near the Iraqi border in a village that seemed utterly
alien to her. When Ayça finally was able to contact Hama, they decided
to meet in Iran, and she found herself once again searching for her love
in a strange land where she knew no one and understood precious little
around her. Ayça Damgacı re-enacts the adventure of her ill-fated
romance with Hama Ali Khan in Gitmek (aka My Marlon and Brando), a
romantic drama based on her true story, with Hama appearing in the
videos he shot for her. My Marlon and Brando was screened in competition
at the 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival.
Director: Hüseyin Karabey
Director, writer, and
producer Huseyin Karabey was born in 1970 to a Kurdish family and
studied at Uludağ University and Marmara University. After making over a
half dozen documentary films from the 1990s through the 2000s, he made
his first feature, My Marlon and Brando (2008). The film premiered at
Rotterdam, won the prize for Best New Narrative Filmmaker at Tribeca,
and earned him praise as a director to watch.
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