Bugday

by Semih Kaplanoglu

Turkey

Director : Semih Kaplanoglu

Script : Semih Kaplanoğlu, Leila Ipekci

Photographer : Giles Nuttgens

Editing : Osman Bayraktaroğlu, Ayhan Ergürsel, Semih Kaplanoğlu

Sound : Jorg Kidrowski

Setting : Naz Erayda

Actors : Jean-Marc Barr, Ermin Bravo, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Lubna Azabal, Cristina Flutur

Production : Kaplan Film Production, Heimat Film, Sophie Dulac Production

Distribution : 

Screening : 2023

DCP, b&w, 127 mn, english

French electronic subtitles

Best Film - Tokyo 2017

In a near future, a sudden climate change causes the end of life on Earth. In this new world in which borders have been redefined, the populations are parked in camps while waiting to be allowed to enter the cities that are locked by magnetic shields. In the region of the Dead Lands, the path of Professor Erol Erin, a genetic engineer specializing in seeds, will cross that of scientist Cemil Akman, a strange man who has chosen to turn his back to modern life. The journey they are about to undertake, looking for new seeds to grow, will turn everything Erin has known so far upside down... “ Man destroys nature and his environment just like he turns away from his own nature. But as a result, real corruption takes place in his inner world. In a sense, Man breaks the invisible but tangible link that attaches him to everything on Earth that surrounds him.” Semih Kaplanoğlu