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Heaven In Your Mind

An ordinary day in near future. Ali, on the way to his lonely home with his ready-to-eat dinner in his shopping bag, finds himself in an underground memory creation center: Here he can create any memory he wants or re-write any old memories. In this future where everyone suffers from loneliness, will Ali find a way out of his disconnectedness and loneliness, as promised in the romantic memory he dives in?

  • Sila Unlu
    Director
    Misericordia, CheckMate
  • Sila Unlu
    Writer
    Misericordia, CheckMate
  • Sila Unlu
    Producer
    Misericordia, CheckMate
  • Omer Kukul
    Key Cast
    "Ali"
  • Elif Kadayif
    Key Cast
  • Ozkan Celtek
    Key Cast
  • Erdem Ozkan
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Aklınızdaki Cennet
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Sci-Fi
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 29 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Turkey
  • Country of Filming:
    Turkey
  • Language:
    Turkish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Sabanci Foundation Short Film Competition
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    January 15, 2020
    World
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Sila Unlu

Born in 1982 in Izmir, Turkey, Sıla Ünlü Intepe had her undergraduate degree on Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design at Sabanci University, Istanbul. She continued her studies on film directing at FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague / Czech Republic), where she wrote and
directed her first award winning short film, CheckMate. She attended the Berlinale Talent Campus as a directing talent on 2009; and took place as a young jury member at the 2009 Nuremberg Turkish German Film Festival. She completed the the feature length scriptwriting workshop at the Gotham Writers New York in 2016. Her last short fiction script was chosen among the eight projects for the Doha Film Institute's Short Script Lab and was developed with mentors Britta Krause, Matthieu Darras and Antoine Waked. She is currently working as filmmaker in Kim Bu Video Production Company, which she founded in 2014.

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