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The Day I Became My Mother (Annem Oldugum Gün), by Faysal Soysal. Iran/Turkey, 2006, 12 min, DVCam, U.S. Premiere
In the Kurdish villages at Turkey’s border with Iraq, a little girl crayons her dreams and sails paper boats on a brook with a doting boy, while her mother, cutting firewood with the other women, worries about gunfire nearby. When shots ring out, the daughter’s consciousness seems to meld with the mother’s, but cold fact prevails in this fable of disenchantment.
Shorts 2, Tue, Nov 13, 2:00 P.M. Q&A with directors Sama Alshaibi, Faysal Soysal and Basma Al-Sharif
Filmmaker's Biography
Faysal Soysal was born in 1979 in Batman, Turkey. He has a master’s degree in cinema from Tehran Art University, where he studied Iranian cinema, and one in modern Turkish literature from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, in Turkey. He has published a book of poetry in Turkish, and his poems and articles on film and literary criticism have appeared in several magazines. He now resides in Istanbul.
Festivals and Awards
- International Audiovisual Film Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan, Gazete Special Prize, 2006
Credits
Cast: Huriye Mir Mohammadi, Sahar Khodabande, Hamed Temuri
Writer: Faysal Soysal
Producer: Faysal Soysal
Cinematographer: Hosein Jalili
Editor: Atefeh Khademolreza
Music: Ciwan Haco
Print Source
Faysal Soysal
Email: faysalsoysal@gmail.com
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