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Ada

A 17-year-old girl, Ada with a childhood trauma, spends one last day with her mother, underwater. Some traumas cause total darkness.

  • Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
    Director
    Inflame, Witch Trilogy 13+, Witch Trilogy 15+
  • Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
    Writer
    Inflame, Witch Trilogy 13+, Witch Trilogy 15+
  • Emre Ozkay
    Producer
    Inflame, Mustang, Nezouh
  • Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
    Producer
    Inflame, Witch Trilogy 13+, Witch Trilogy 15+
  • Defne Burnaz
    Key Cast
    "Ada"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Turkey
  • Country of Filming:
    Turkey
  • Language:
    Turkish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital - RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Ceylan Özgün Özçelik

Ceylan is an Istanbul based filmmaker, making both features and shorts, fiction and docs. Her films deal with memory and violence. Ceylan won the Gamechanger Award at SXSW with her debut feature Kaygı/Inflame in 2017. Her films had screened at the festivals such as Berlinale Panorama, Ann Arbor, Sitges, RIDM, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Dokufest, and London Short Film Festival. She was an artist-in-residence for Berlin AIR, a participant for San Francisco SFFILM Script Grant, and one of the twelve candidates for Cannes Residency with her political genre feature film project Witch Trilogy 18+.

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