Deniz Şimşek
Directing
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Başrolde Aşk

Sprout. In the vacant lots against the hammering of buildings always under construction, between walls of granite, cement and sheet metal with rust, moss and cats; on the hillside between the train and the river, next to the traffic on the highway, facing the subway, vegetable gardens sprout. In this city, the choreography of ancient gestures of cultivating the land is repeated day after day, without fail. Sowing, digging, harvesting, watering, eating, talking, resting and returning the next day. The longest day of the year brings S. João and nobody goes to bed, but when the sun rises, the discreet gestures of resistance will restart.
Variations on How to Farm a City

Here, where even monsters are political, the topography has its own memory. It has the mythological blues. Meanwhile, old gods are upset with us, and I am upset with my father.
detours while speaking of monsters

Burn-out and depression are not individual phenomena but collective ones. The film is an invitation to rest through images and listening, so as to transform individual exhaustion into shared power to act.
Action Item

In her feature-length debut director Paula Ďurinová sets out to wander among varied rock formations in order to try and come to terms with the loss of her grandparents.
Lapilli

Set out on a journey to meet his family back at home in Italy, Tommaso seeks answers, both personal and professional, among family and friends. The search of himself doesn’t get easier with the sudden arrival his girlfriend. Everything tells Tommaso how everyone's life seems to be going in a certain direction: everyone's life except his own.
At Least Desires Don't Grow Old

Year 2003, footage from TV archives, the future president of Turkey speaks to his folk. An everlasting catchy tune from a juice commercial. In an instant of remembrance your memory gets you to fall through its own time and space.
Centauress

Navid wants to enlighten the misogynistic men in Hönow, but his assistant knows better.
Hönow’s Enlightenment

A psychological drama about three characters; a young woman who wants to break up to his abusive boyfriend, a teen confronting his childhood friend, a thirty-five years old woman facing her brother, experiencing hypothetical conversations with them, only to see that it never goes the way it’s imagined, and each person’s confrontation or lack of it in reality differs.