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About the film:

When we were writing ‘Package’, we imagined a table that we have been forced to sit at since childhood, where family, society and personal relations imposed their truths. In these tables we are judged, strangled, but we cannot get up and leave them.

This time around the table is Cemre, Esra, Tuna, and the uninvited guest Sinan. Our story begins in a luxurious restaurant with Esra, who invites her sister Cemre to such a table. The forced communication between two siblings becomes tangled when Tuna, who is wearing a torn panda costume, arrives with a package in his hand. When the intruder Sinan joins them, the table becomes a familiar place where everyone tries to hurt each other.

Instead of creating morally black and white characters we imagined a gray areas for each of them. We invited spectator to this restaurants through these gray areas where they can challenge their moral grounds. We constructed this atmosphere to show that their lives are surveilled by both their families and the spectators. We present the vortex of this table, textually with the relationship deadlock that is constantly getting complicated and visually with the plan sequence technique. In this way, we aim to create suffocating integrity for our characters so that they cannot escape or divide temporally and spatially. We design this effect in the form of a 15-minute, intriguing, uninterrupted exchange as a necessity for the flow of the story. We believe this will also support each performer who will sit at the table to leave a unique and unrepeatable impact. What excites us the most about the project is that this text, technique, and acting, which we dream of complementing each other, are presented in the same 'Package'.

TEAM:

Screenwriter and Director: Melih Aslan

Journalist, director, born in 1988 in Tekirdağ, Turkey. After graduating from Saint Joseph French High School, he graduated from Koç University, Department of International Relations. Aslan started his professional career as an editor at the Foreign News Desk of Milliyet Newspaper and then continued as a Producer for the Television department of Reuters News Agency. While continuing his working life, he completed his master's degree in Media and Communication Systems at Bilgi University. In 2018, he applied University of Cape Town in South Africa for a master's degree in Documentary, where he undertook the shooting of various productions. His first documentary titled 'Cyclist', which he directed and produced in 2019, was shown in many Turkish and international film festival selections.

Screenwriter and Actor: Kürşat Demir

Theater and TV series actor. Born in Sinop, Turkey, in 1990. After graduating from Kadir Has University's Theater Department in 2016, he studied at Falmouth University with Erasmus program. In addition to his theater plays, Demir has acted in various films and series since 2009. Theater Plays:  Sanmıştım ki / 2019, Luna Park / 2017, Pencere / Edward – 2016.

Movies and TV Series: Kafa Doktoru (Man with Monday Syndrome, TV Series 2020), Eşkiya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz (Kubilay, TV Series 2020), Saygı (Murat Sanal, TV Series 2020), Jet Sosyete (TV Series 2019), Bir Deli Rüzgar (TV Series 2018), Söz (TV Series 2017), Saygı (2020), Ottoman: Rise of Empires 2, Adı Sevgi (TV Series 2022).

Cast: Tülin Özen, Faruk Barman, Zeynep Çötelioğlu, Kürşat Demir, Doğukan Yavuz

Director of Photography: Yusuf Namlı

Art Director: Murat Yılmaz

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