‘Toz Bezi’ On Berlinale Film Festival

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Ahu Öztürk’s first full-length film “Toz Bezi (Dust Cloth)” has been selected for the 66th Berlinale Film Festival Forum Section to take place between February 11-21.

The film, going to make its international premiere in Berlin, tells the story of two homeworker women’s life struggle in İstanbul.

Nazan Kesal and Asiye Dinçsoy share the leading roles of the film written and directed by Ahu Öztürk who has participated in many festivals before with her previous short film “Açık Yara (Open Wound)”. Other actors starring in the film are Mehmet Özgür, Serra Yılmaz, Didem İnselel and Gökçe Yanardağ

Produced with support of Ministry for Culture Cinema General Directorate, the entire film has been shot in İstanbul with support of Maltepe Municipality.

Two home worker women, relationships they have with the ones living in the houses where they go cleaning, everyday conflicts, their friendship and sisterhood, the hierarchy in this friendship, the struggle to hold on to life, being a woman, a mother, cleaning and poverty...

Driving in a wagon between the poverty and richness of the city, Nesrin and Hatun try to understand life and find paths to themselves.

Writer - Director: Ahu Öztürk
Actors: Nazan Kesal (Hatun), Asiye Dinçsoy (Nesrin), Mehmet Özgür (Şero), Serra Yılmaz (Ayten), Didem İnselel (Aslı), Asel Yalın (Asmin), Yusuf Ancu (Oktay), Gökçe Yanardağ (Ferda)
Producer: Nesra Gürbüz, Çiğdem Mater
Joint Producer: Stefan Gieren
Director of Cinematography: Meryem Yavuz
Art Directors: Aslı Dadak – Barış Yıkılmaz
Fiction: Ali Aga
Fiction Supervisor: Ayhan Ergürsel
Casting: Ezgi Baltaş

Who is Ahu Öztürk?

Ahu Özürk had her education in philosophy and cinema. In 2004 she created her first documentary “Sandık (Chest)”. In 2010 she has attended the Tales from Kars consisting of five films, with her film “Açık Yara (Open Wound)”.

“Açık Yara (Open Wound)” has played on many international film festivals in 2010 like Rotterdam, İstanbul, Jerusalem, Sarajevo and Beirut. “Toz Bezi (Dust Cloth) is her first full-length project. (ÇT/DG)