Director
Selcen Ergun
Screenwriter
Selcen Ergun
Yeşim Aslan
Cinematographer
Florent Herry
Editor
Çiçek Kahraman
Art Director
Osman Özcan
Producer
Nefes Polat
Selcen Ergun
Cast
Merve Dizdar, Saygın Soysal, Asiye Dinçsoy, Erkan Bektaş, Derya Pınar Ak, Muttalip Müjdeci, Onur Gürçay
Snow and the Bear
A small, remote, snow-covered town in Turkey. Winter has always been tough here, but this year it seems never-ending in an almost surreal way. The roads are blocked due to heavy snowfall. Word has it that bears have risen early from their winter sleep and killed some animals in the area. Although nobody has really seen them, people are afraid that they will soon venture into town. Aslı, a young nurse, has recently arrived to do her compulsory service here. In this small town, where the biggest problem for the gendarmes has been the bats moving into the police station, the sudden disappearance of a man provokes all sorts of rumors. Aslı finds herself caught in the middle of gradually emerging power relationships, webs of secrecy and suspicions.
Selcen Ergun
Born in Ankara, she studied Industrial Design at METU (Middle East Technical University) and went on to earn an MA in Cinema at Istanbul Bilgi University. She is a Berlinale Talents and Nipkow Artist-in-Residence alumna. Her short films, Confrontation and A Sunny Day, were selected to screen at several international film festivals and awarded prizes. Her debut feature film, Snow and the Bear, is a Turkish-German-Serbian co-production supported by Eurimages.
Turkish,
DCP, Colour
93’