The Diamond Sea
Turkey / Fiction / 18' / Black and White / Color / 2021
Jale, a free-spirited streetseller in her late thirties roams around the forsaken shores of the Bosphorus. She crosses paths with heartbroken teenagers, an obnoxious admirer, exorcists, exhibitionists, fellow street sellers, fisherwomen and treasure-hunters. Like frogs gathered around a pond, they only have each other - and the timeworn, yet still glittering, Diamond Sea.
Director: Arda Ekşigil
Script: Arda Ekşigil
Director of Photography: Meryem Yavuz
Producer: Sinan Kesova, Öykü Canlı, Alara Hamamcıoğlu
Musician: Johann Jacob Froberger
Editior: Can Eskinazi
Sound: Cenker Kökten
Cast: İpek Türktan Kaynak, Ali Seçkiner Alıcı, Mustafa Uzunyılmaz
CV
After graduating from Pierre Loti French High School in 2007, he studied History at the University of Montreal and Ottoman History at McGill University. He acted as scriptwriter, producer and/or director in short films such as Hinterlant (dir. S. Kesova), Knights Templar and The Diamond Sea. Currently he is writing his first feature film.
Filmography
Tapınak Şövalyeleri (2018]
Akıntı (2021)
Festivals Attended
Akıntı:
IKSV, Boğaziçi Film Festivali, İzmir Uluslararası Kısa Film Festivali
Awards
Tapınak Şövalyeleri - Jüri Özel Ödülü, !f Uluslararası Bağımsız Filmler Festivali (2019)
Akıntı - En iyi Kısa Film Ödülü (2021) Boğaziçi Film Festivali
Akıntı - En iyi Görüntü Ödülü (2021) İzmir Uluslararası Kısa Film Festivali (2021)