Private Project

Wish to Wash with Rain

It is known that in Turkey at least 3 women are murdered by their husbands, ex-husbands or ex-boyfriends every day. 10 out of 4 women suffer from physical violence of their husbands or lovers. The movie “Yağmurda Yıkansam” , looks at life through the ones who are left behind in women murders’ eyes. The story of Gamze, murdered by her parents, tells the life after the murder, not one that ended with it.
The fact that the victims in women murders are not only the ones who are murdered, is told from the story of Gamze. In the story, the anger, loneliness, despair and longings of 15 year old Gamze meets the audience with a perspective not taken before.. Hale, who is about thirty five years old (named Gamze when she was a child), begins to open the doors of her past that she had kept securely close with the surprise proposal of her boyfriend Engin, with whom she has shared a home with for the last 5 months. It is hard for Hale to be human, to love other people and truly be herself. As Hale started to face her past slowly, she starts to become a more warm person. Neither the rains, nor Engin can erase the past. Hale would get over her past with facing her childhood Gamze.

  • Gülten Taranç
    Director
  • Gülten Taranç
    Writer
  • Çağla Canbaz
    Writer
  • Ragıp Taranç
    Producer
  • Gülten Taranç
    Producer
  • Yeliz Tozan
    Key Cast
    Hale
  • Derin İnce
    Key Cast
    Gamze
  • Murat Ergür
    Key Cast
    Engin
  • Engin Benli
    Key Cast
    Yılmaz
  • Müge Ulusoy
    Key Cast
    Fazilet
  • Çiğdem Benli
    Key Cast
    Melike
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 29 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 10, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    150,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Türkiye
  • Country of Filming:
    Türkiye
  • Language:
    Turkish
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • 53.Antalya Film Festival Motley Section
    Antalya
    Turkey
    October 21, 2016
    Audience Award
  • Balkan Film Food Festival
    Pogradec
    Albania
    August 2, 2016
    Best Feature Film Award
  • Barcelona Film Festival
    Barcelona
    Spain
    no screening
    Gold Lion Award
  • ISENMA International Sutedent-Newcomer-Women Filmmaker Festival,Endonesia
    Jakarta, Bali
    November 24, 2016
    Best International Feature Film Gold Award
  • 4.Antakya Film Festival
    Hatay
    Turkey
    November 28, 2016
    Special Mention Best Engaged Film
  • 14th Ischia Film Festival
    Ischia
    Italy
    June 25, 2016
    Italian Premiere
  • II. Balkan Panaroma
    İzmir, Turkey
    March 18, 2016
    special screening
  • Barcelona Planet Film Festival
    Barcelona
    Best director finalist
  • Barcelona Planet Film Festival
    Barcelona
    March 9, 2016
    Best woman filmmaker finalist
  • Ohrid Film Festival
    Ohrid
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
  • European Film Festival (Mainstream & Underground)
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
  • I Filmmaker Uluslararası Film Festival
    Marbella
    Spain
    Speacial Mention
  • 4.Bosphorus Film Festival
    İstanbul
    Turkey
    November 13, 2016
    İstanbul Premiere
Distribution Information
  • Gülten Taranç
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Gülten Taranç

She was born in Izmir in 1990. She graduated from MEV Avni Akyol High School in 2008, and went to Mexico as an exchange student with the Rotary Exchange Program in the same year. She took Spanish and Latin Dance classes at Universidad de Quintana Roo. She served as a jury member for the 18th MED Film Festival, Methexis Project organized in Italy in 2012. She competed in many domestic and international film festivals. In addition to her domestic and international exhibition which consisted of documentary photography, she is a documentary and short film director. She has been concerned with women's issues since 2010 up and produced films about the problems women experience in Turkey. She graduated from Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Film Design and Directing in 2013. She continues her graduate education in Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Cinema and Television. She does freelance work in the film and advertising industries. In 2015 she founded Tarancı and Tarancı film production house.

THE FILMOGRAPHY OF GÜLTEN TARANÇ

Gün Dönümü (Solstice) (2013)

Ege’de Düğün 9/8 (Aegean Wedding 9/8) (2013)

CONSENSUS (2012)
3rd International Izmir Women’s Festival, Active Women Award
DEU, Faculty of Fine Arts, Şenel Aksu Award the Best Thesis
İKFD (Istanbul Short Filmmakers Association), 11th National Short Film Festival, 1st Prize, Fiction Category (Consensus)

DÖNÜŞÜM “dönüşebildiğimiz kadar” (Metamorphosis “as much as we can metamorphose..”) (2012)
3rd Identita Short Film Festival, Italy, 3rd Prize (public choice), Fiction category
10th Environmental Short Film Festival, National Short Film Contest, 3rd Prize, Fiction Category
Sinepark 6th Short Film Festival, (Gökçe Sezer) Best Actress Award
Sinepark 6th Short Film Festival, (Meryem Şahin) Best Screenplay Award

Anadolu’nun Son Karatabağı (The Last Leather Craftsman of Anatolia) (2012)

Kaçan Kovalanır(2011)
2nd Manisa Golden Grape Short Film Festival, 2nd Prize, Fiction Category

Eleni ile Aret (Eleni and Aret) (2011)

Çilek Zamanı (Season of the Strawberries) (2011)

Obezonlar (Obezons) (2011)

Yolculuk (The Trip) (2010)

Nedensiz (Without a Reason) (2010)

Pembe Mariachi (The Pink Mariachi) (2010)

İki Ucu Ateş (Both Ends on Fire) (2007)

İzmir Valisi Kazım Dirik (Kazım Dirik, Governor of Izmir) (2006)
1st Agora Film Festival, Best Amateur Documentary Film Award

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Director Statement

In our cinema, women are not being told about enough and the media and the television are polluting our subconscious with products that support violence against women. My main goal both in my short films and my film “Let the Rain Wash Over Me” has been to raise awareness for women’s issues and to express this awareness in a different way.
In my film project, “Let the Rain Wash Over Me”, I would like to handle the events that happen to my characters in a naive way and reveal some innovative ideas in form and content to create a new aesthetic language without resorting to melodrama patterns and agitation. I will try a new form by showing the different periods in our character’s life to the audience in the same space and creating an intertwined time frame, instead of using the “flashback” expression that has been used so extensively until now. I believe that these jumps in time and this new time frame that is created will also serve the content in the name of helping create a present time in which we can witness our character’s past while watching the present time and revealing how many people’s lives a woman’s murder affects while challenging the possibilities of expression in cinema.
Female characters in our cinema so far have waited for a Prince Charming to rescue them. Hale, unlike these women, goes through change, a transformation by looking into herself, not with the man that comes into her life, because the biggest change is what happens inside people. Engin, instead of putting the woman he loves into a mold, finds it in himself to change and mature for Hale.
The fact that Gamze (Hale’s childhood) holds on to life by being so involved in music reveals the power of art. Taking a woman’s murder that perhaps we would read on the third page news on the big screen by taking advantage of the possibilities of art in the name of creating awareness in the audience through a new means of expression and to get people thinking about this issue is my most important objective.