Wrong Rosary
Director: Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
Script: Tarık Tufan, Görkem Yeltan, Bektaş Topaloğlu
Director of Photography: Refik Çakar
Producer: Halil Kardaş
Musician: Rahman Altın
Editing: Çiçek Kahraman
Sound: Duygu Çelikkol, Murat Çelikkol
Cast: Nadir Sarıbacak, Görkem Yeltan, Ersan Uysal
Turkey / Fiction / 89’ / HD / Color / 2009
The young muezzin Musa visits Istanbul for the first time in his life when he is assigned to a mosque in Galata, Istanbul. Musa is lodged in to an apartment provided for him. His next door neighbors are Sister Anna and Clara who is taking care of her. An excitement and at the same time, a warm kind of sensation is emerged through the encounter of Clara, whose life is stuck between home and church and Musa, who comes to Istanbul to start a new life. At the beginning he was even hesitant to confess himself, but by the time passes, the young muezzin’s love for Clara pervades all his life. Another story emerges when Musa and Yakup, who is a bibliopole, come across at the church which Clara attends regularly.
CV
Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun studied film at UCLA. He began filmmaking with directing documentaries in 2000. He made his first fiction film Wrong Rosary in 2009 which he won several national and international awards including Rotterdam Film Festival’s Tiger Award and Best Director at the Adana Film Festival. His second film Yozgat Blues was finished in 2013 and premiered at 61st San Sebastian Film Festival. Yozgat Blues won the Best Film Award at the 20th Adana Film Festival and the Best Balkan Film Award at the 18th Sofia Film Festival.His third feature film The Announcement premiered at 75th Venice Film Festival and won Special Jury Prize. The Announcement has received more than fifteen awards at national and international festivals.
Filmography
Anons - Announcement 2018
Yozgat Blues - Yozgat Blues 2013
Uzak İhtimal - Wrong Rosary 2009
Festivals Attended
38. Rotterdam Film Festivali, 6. Crossing Europe Film Festivali, 28. İstanbul Film Festivali, 14. Sofya Film Festivali, 16. Adana Altın Koza Film Festivali, 25. Hayfa Film Festivali, 7. Tofifest Film Festival, 28. Fajr Uluslararası Film Festivali, 4. Bursa İpekyolu Film Festivali
Awards
38. Rotterdam Film Festivali Kaplan Ödülü
6. Crossing Europe Film Festivali (Linz) En İyi Film
28. İstanbul Film Festivali En İyi Yönetmen, En İyi Senaryo ve En İyi Erkek Oyuncu
14. Sofya Film Festivali En İyi Balkan Filmi
16. Adana Altın Koza Film Festivali En İyi Yönetmen, En İyi Erkek ve En iyi Kadın Oyuncu
25. Hayfa Film Festivali Altın Çapa En İyi Film Ödülü
7. Tofifest Film Festival Jüri Özel Ödülü ve En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Ödülü
28. Fajr Uluslararası Film Festivali En iyi Sanat Yönetmeni Ödülü
4. Bursa İpekyolu Film Festivali En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Ödülü