Directors Barış Kaya and Soner Caner in Conversation

Talk

May 13, 2017 / 15:30

As part of Pera Film’s ongoing program “Growing Pains”, Rauf’s first screening on May 13th will be held with the presence of the directors Barış Kaya and Soner Caner. Directors will be in conversation after the screening. 

Rauf, winner of the Special Jury Prize in the 35th Istanbul Film Festival, tells the story of a 9-year-old boy who starts a journey in order to search the colour pink for the girl he loves.

About the Directors: 

Barış Kaya and Soner Caner are filmmakers from Turkey. Kaya studied at the film and TV faculty at Anadolu University in Eskişehir. He has long worked in film production and made a number of TV commercials. Caner studied artificial technology, focusing on product design. He works creating special effects and as an artistic director. The two collaborated on the film The Breath (Nefes) directed by Levent Semerci, in 2009. They made their directorial debut in 2016 with the feature drama Rauf.

Free of admissions, drop in. This event will take place in the auditorium. The talk will be in Turkish.

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