All-In

Two innocent boys, a Turkish and a Kurdish, Ismail and Hakan start working in Nashira Resort, a gigantic allinclusive hotel at the Turkish Riviera. Ismail is 17 and dropped out of school to earn money for his family. Hakan is 25 and the youngest of 12 children. Both have come to the hotel business to move ahead in life and to learn English. At first the newcomers are very shy and avoid all contact with the hotel guests. Gradually, they observe the colourful bikinis, the un-emptied plates, the different ways of addressing other people, the sorts of opportunities. Ismail and Hakan are changing. Initial kindness turns into indifference. By following Ismail and Hakan during two summers in the hotel, All-In explores the coming of age within the European dream. In All-In, the hotel functions as a microcosm for a more universal story about the loss of innocence, when newcomers try to adapt to our capitalistic first world societies with its geopolitical challenges.

VOLKAN ÜCE

After obtaining his master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, Volkan Üce started to work at the same university. He decided to continue as a self-taught filmmaker before completing his PhD. His first full-length documentary Displaced had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig 2017 and was received with great enthusiasm by both the international and the Belgian public. Displaced shows the identity crisis of third-generation Turks growing up in Belgium and the Netherlands. At the same time the film tells a lot about current Turkish and Western European society.