’Two Lines’ to go to Moscow film festival
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Hürriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 04, 2009 00:00
ISTANBUL - Turkish director Selim Evci’s film "İki Çizgi" (Two Lines) has been invited to be screened at the Moscow International Film Festival this month.
The movie, which premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival, has been shown at 22 festivals around the globe, including ones in Rotterdam, Cairo, Sao Paulo, Oslo, Beirut, Athens, Bangkok and Cape Town. The 31st edition of the Moscow festival, which was organized for the first time in 1959, will be held this year from June 19-28. "Two Lines" will be screened alongside notable examples of Russian and world cinema.
The film’s Turkey gala was held at the Golden Orange Film Festival in the Mediterranean city of Antalya last year and released Feb. 27, so far reaching 20,000 people. A DVD version of the movie will go on sale this month. Staring Gülçin Santırcıoğlu and Kaan Keskin, "Two Lines" explores the collision between Turkish traditions and Western values and how this becomes an increasing problem in the matters of sex, identity and freedom.
Main characters Mert and Selin live two different lives, one by day and the other at night, imprisoned in a monotonous everyday life where they are, each in their own way, observers of the world around them. Mert uses his days to photograph passers-by, while Selin is a withdrawn businesswoman. But slowly the outside world crowds in on them, first when someone breaks into their apartment while they sleep, and later when they decide to take the important step of entering the world, daring to go on a car trip to the south.
The film’s Turkey gala was held at the Golden Orange Film Festival in the Mediterranean city of Antalya last year and released Feb. 27, so far reaching 20,000 people. A DVD version of the movie will go on sale this month. Staring Gülçin Santırcıoğlu and Kaan Keskin, "Two Lines" explores the collision between Turkish traditions and Western values and how this becomes an increasing problem in the matters of sex, identity and freedom.
Main characters Mert and Selin live two different lives, one by day and the other at night, imprisoned in a monotonous everyday life where they are, each in their own way, observers of the world around them. Mert uses his days to photograph passers-by, while Selin is a withdrawn businesswoman. But slowly the outside world crowds in on them, first when someone breaks into their apartment while they sleep, and later when they decide to take the important step of entering the world, daring to go on a car trip to the south.