Times and Winds

(Bes vakit)

by Reha Erdem

Turkey

Director: Reha Erdem

Script: Reha Erdem

Cinematographer: Florent Herry

Editing: Reha Erdem

Sound: Hervé Guyader, Murat Senürkmez

Settings: Ömer Atay

Cast: Özkan Özen, Ali Bey Kayali, Elit Iscan, Bülent Emin Yarar, Taner Birsel, Yigit Özsener, Selma Ergec

Production:
Atlantik Film
Üst Zerren sokak n°2
1. Levent 34330 / Istanbul
Tel: 0090.212.278.36.11
Fax: 0090.212.278.19.71
Mail: [email protected]
www.atlantikfilm.com

Year: 2006

35 mm, Colour, 100 min, 
OV Turkish with French Subtitles

Awarded in many worldwide Film Festivals

Unreleased

It is a small and poor village standing against the rocks and facing a sublime sea, an olive grove on its hillside. Its inhabitants are simple hardworking people. Their life is governed by seasons, day and night, water and air. Life in the village is punctuated by the calls to prayers five times a day. People are aware that they are only passing through, like animals and plants around them. Parents bring up children the same way they were brought up. They awkwardly show their love and consider corporal punishment is heavenly dictated. Fathers always have a favourite son and mothers are very harsh with their daughters.

Omer, the imam’s son, desperately wishes his father were dead. Yakub is in love with the school teacher. Yildiz goes to school while at the same time he tries to manage all the chores his mother mercilessly gives him. The children grow up slowly, their feeling of anger shifting to a sense of guilt and vice versa.