Love in another Language

Love in Another Language

Director: İlksen Basarir

Producer: N. Bünhan Bengi

Screenplay: Mert Fırat, İlksen Basarir

Year: 2009

Cinematographer: Hayk Kirakosyan

Art Director: Hakan Yarkın

Music: Uğur Akyürek, Erdem Yörük

Cast: Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Mert Fırat, Emre Karayel, Lale Mansur, Şebnem Köstem, Tuğrul Türek, Gizem Erden, Tuna Kırlı, Didem Balçın, Murat Okey, Ayten Uncuoğlu, Metin Coşkun

Color: Colorful

Production Company: Kutu Film, Ofis İstanbul by PPR

Country: Türkiye

Release date: 18.12.2009

Subject: Onur, who is deaf and mute, meets Zeynep at a birthday party. Zeynep likes Onur and her thoughts towards Onur do not change when she realizes that he is hearing impaired. A language develops between Onur and Zeynep.

Awards:

21st Ankara Film Festival Awards (2010) “Best Actress” (Saadet Işıl Aksoy), “Best Actor” (Mert Fırat), “Best Cinematography” (Hayk Kirakosyan), “Promising New Screenwriter” (İlksen Basarir, Mert Fırat), “Special Award of the Board of Selection Committee” (İlksen Basarir)

15th Sadri Alışık Theater and Cinema Actor Awards (2010) “Best Actor” (Mert Fırat)

3rd Türsak Foundation Yeşilçam Awards (2010) “Best Actor” (Mert Fırat)

46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (2009) “Best Film” “City Council Special Jury Award”

4th Bursa Silk Road Film Festival “Best Film”

SİYAD-Cinema Writers Association "Best Film" "Best Actress" (Saadet Işıl Aksoy)

13th Berdyansk (Ukraine) Film Festival (2010) “Best Film” “Best Debut Director” (İlksen Basarir)

Cyprus (Larnaca) International Film Festival (2010) “Golden Aphrodite Award”, “Best Screenplay” “Best Director” “Best Actor” (Mert Fırat)

15th Sadri Alışık Cinema Actor Awards (2010 "Best Actor" (Mert Fırat)

Contents related to the movie:

Yaşartürk, G. (2010). A Study on Being a Female Director: Examples of “Love in Another Language” (İlksen Başkar) and “Peri Tozu” (Ela Alyamaç). Seven, (4), 111-116.

https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/203695

Source:

Evren, M. Burçak. (2014). 100 Years of Turkish Cinema. Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Özgüç, Agâh. (2012). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Turkish Movies. Istanbul: Horizon International.

Özgüç, Agâh. (2014). Dictionary of Turkish Films 1914-2014. Istanbul: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Yavuz, Deniz. (2013). 22 Years of Turkish Cinema (1990-2011). Istanbul: Antrakt Cinema Library.