Private Project

The Hiding

A young girl, Sıla returned to the town where she was born and grew up for the sale of the house. His father's cold attitude has been ignored for many years against his grandmother and aunt who he loves and cares about. In this visit, Sila, who seeks parts of his family's past curiosity, will face some research in the past with domestic reality.

  • Sezgin Sönmez
    Director
    Bir-İz (Documentary)
  • Sezgin Sönmez
    Writer
  • Sinem Koral Sönmez
    Writer
  • Alperen Kolay
    Writer
  • Esra Kabak
    Writer
  • Zişan Aktaş
    Key Cast
    "Sıla"
  • İncel Alsan
    Key Cast
    "Havva (Babaanne)"
  • Özlem Akdoğan
    Key Cast
    "İsmet (Hala)"
  • Gürkan Uygun
    Key Cast
    "Salih (Baba)"
  • Ergun Kuyucu
    Key Cast
    "Alper ( Baba Çocukluk Arkadaşı)"
  • Ceren Uğursın
    Key Cast
    "Havva Gençlik"
  • Yüksel Nur Şahin
    Key Cast
    "İsmet Çocukluk"
  • Egemen Özdamar
    Key Cast
    "Salih Çocukluk"
  • Hüseyin Baki Karataş
    Director of Photography
    Salı, Darı, Astroneer
  • Uğur Eryılmaz
    Music
  • Hüseyin Demir
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Saklantı
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 29, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    1,800 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Turkey
  • Country of Filming:
    Turkey
  • Language:
    Turkish
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4.2
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Sezgin Sönmez

Director Sezgin Sönmez was born in 1986 in Eskişehir. He graduated from Erciyes University, the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema in 2011. He made 6 short films while he was a student. With one of them, he won the second prize in the "AB'ye Genç Bakış (Young Look into EU)" competition held in the program "Abbas Güçlü ile Genç Bakış", broadcasted on Kanal D screens in 2008. After graduating, he worked for Eskişehir's local TV channels for a while.

In 2014, he started to work in the Directorate of Press and Public Relations Office of the Odunpazarı Municipality. He completed the documentary “Bir-İz”, which he conducted jointly with Odunpazarı Municipality, in 2017. The documentary, which can be streamed on Youtube, has reached 25 thousand views and focuses on the effects of the 1993 Sivas massacre on people.

In 2017 and 2018, he conducted the Eskişehir leg of the "IF Square" event organized by the Istanbul Independent Film Festival and was responsible for the screening and organization of the films. In 2019, he made a 20-minute short film called "Saklantı” which focused on the subject of child abuse, in cooperation with Odunpazarı Municipality and TOGAPT Organization.

In the same year, he completed another short film named "Iyi Uykular", depicting the effects of global warming and drought through a dystopian lens. “Iyi Uykular” was included in the official selections of several domestic and international film festivals and also was screened in many different movie theatres of Istanbul.

Since 2019, Sönmez has been working as an instructor in the short film workshops of the Odunpazarı Municipality Youth Center and within the scope of these workshops, he completed his latest short film "Peşinde" with his students in 2022.

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