The Moisture
Türkiye / Fiction / 20' / 4K / Color / 2022
Set in a village where evil is falling like fog, the film focuses on teacher İshak, who is doing his compulsory duty in Anatolia, and questions the ways and results of man's struggle with evil while he tinkers with the concepts of guilt and innocence in pursuit of a missing female student.
Director: Turan Haste
Script: M. Furkan Daşbilek
Director of Photography: Mustafa Yeşilova
Producer: M. Furkan Daşbilek, Engin Cebiroğlu, Ramazan Kılıç
Music: Mehmet Ağbaba
Editing: Taylan Tuncer, Turan Haste
Sound: Meriç Erseçgen
Cast: Mücahit Koçak, Okan Selvi, Muhammed Mayda, Baran Salman, Türkyılmaz Sarıkaya, Elif Eylül Yeşilyurt
CV
Turan Haste was born in Turkey, in 1989. He graduated from a cinema department in 2010. After working in the cinema and television industry for a while, he made his first short film Harvest Time, which was screened in national and international festivals and won many awards in 2016. He is the producer of two internationally acclaimed short films – Nafthalene and At a Riverside.
Filmography
Rutubet 2022
Hasat Zamanı 2016
Festivals Attended
Venice International Film Festival
Zagreb Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
BosphorusFilm Festivali
Bakı Beynəlxalq Qısa Filmlər Fest
Awards
Baku Short Film Festival – Best Director
Santa Barbara International Film Festival - Best Short Film
Zeytinburnu Belediyesi Çanakkale Short Film Competition- 1st Jury Award
İKFD National Short Film Competition, Branch of Fiction -2 nd Jury Award
İnönü University Short Film Festival, National Branch of Fiction – 3 rd Jury Award
Golden Baklava Short Film Competition, Branch of Fiction – 2 nd Jury Award
Dede Korkut Short Film Competition - Jury Main Award