Upheaval

A nightmare-ish experience revolving around money, religion, collective existence of human beings and eventually search for redemption.

  • Özgür Taşoluk
    Director
    Forgiveness
  • Roman Larkovich
    Key Cast
  • Özgür Taşoluk
    Writer
  • Özgür Taşoluk
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Horror
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 2, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Netherlands
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany, Netherlands, Turkey
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Lift-Off First-Time Filmmaker Sessions 2023

    United Kingdom
    January 1, 2024
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Özgür Taşoluk

Born in 1995 in Osmaniye, Turkey, Ozgur Tasoluk was interested in cinema and poetry since his adolescent years. After he moved to the Netherlands at the age of 23 he made his first narrative short film Forgiveness that's been selected and screened in several festivals. After a break of two years, in an attempt to combine his love for poetry and cinema he attended Experimental & Personal Filmmaking workshop organized by Berlin Art Institute and instructed by experimental filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi. This has led him to his latest project Upheaval.

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Director Statement

Upheaval is about the horrors of February 6th, 2023 the following period, when two of the biggest earthquakes in its history hit Turkey. It is an expression of the anguish the disaster has caused.