Private Project

SHADOW OF RETURN

When there are no fsh n the pond, Kemal leaves the fsh he brought
from home

  • SEZER BAYDAR
    Director
  • MEHMET RUTKAY AÇIKGÖZ
    Writer
  • SEZER BAYDAR
    Producer
  • KEMAL ÇALIŞKAN
    Key Cast
    "BALIKÇI"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    DÖNÜŞ VE GÖLGESİ
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 5, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Turkey
  • Country of Filming:
    Turkey
  • Language:
    Turkish
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - SEZER BAYDAR

Born in 1993 in Van, he completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Van. In 2015, he won the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at Istanbul Kadir Has University. Between 2017-2020, he continued his undergraduate education at Gaziantep University, Department of Cinema and Television. In 2020, she graduated from Kadir Has University. He worked as director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editing director in many short fiction and documentary films. He worked as an assistant director on two feature films. Although his primary goal is documentary and short fiction, one of his goals in the future is to make a feature-length documentary-fiction film

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Director Statement

I have to say this about this movie; Kemal, 60 years old, has been fshng as a hobby for more than 40 years.
The clmatc events Kemal wtnessed year after year forced hm to
mgrate to dfferent regons. Despte the recent declne n the fsh
populaton, he decded to keep the pond alve. One day Kemal decdes
to release the lve fsh from hs house nto the pond. Hs am s to keep
the populaton alve n the pond.