Waiting for the Clouds

  • Rüçhan Çaliskur: Ayshe / Eleni
  • Ridvan Yağcı: Mehmet
  • Dimitris Kamberidis: Tanasis
  • Feride Karaman: Feride

Waiting for the Clouds is a film by Yeşim Ustaoğlu from the year 2004. The film is based on the novel Tamama (1994 ) by Georgios Andreadis.

Action

In 1975, the sixty -year Ayshe lives in a Turkish fishing village west of Trabzon, where they increasingly lonely since the death of her older sister. The neighbor boy Mehmet, to which it has developed a large maternal relationship, cares about them. When the foreign Thanasis appears in the village, Ayshe pulls in a log cabin in the mountains back from the clouds, and refuses to return to the village. This inexplicable behavior for all straight ahead of the joyous occasion of a wedding triggers rumors among the villagers and also pulls the lack of understanding by Mehmet himself.

Nobody knows about Ayshes for five decades kept secret: Before her adoption, she was the daughter of orthodox Pontic Greeks who lived in Turkey. Your baptismal name was Eleni. It torments her guilty because she had decided as a child of ten, not to follow her brother, who was deported to Greece, but instead to remain in the safety of her Turkish adoptive family.

Fifty years after the separation, now willing to explore their own roots and find the lost brother, she travels to Greece.

Reviews

  • FIPRESCI Festival Report ( Berlinale 2005 ): Using the history of Ayshe the film represents the issue of personal identity and of Turkey's recent political past. Yesim Ustaoglu does not represent the great history of Turkey to the fore, she prefers to follow the "small" stories, personal life stories, enclosed by the great history. ( Muge Turan, Berlin 2005 )
  • ARTE: The new movie coming from Kars on the border with Armenia director focuses on a politically sensitive issue of forced resettlement of originating from the Pontos region on the southeastern coast of the Black Sea Turkish Greeks, from before, during and after the 1. world War were affected hundreds of thousands. "Waiting for the Clouds" but is similar to " Journey to the Sun " is not a rabble but a conciliatory film, the light will bring in one of the many taboos of the military dictatorship topics of recent Turkish history. ( Martin Rosenfeldt, February 11, 2005)

Awards

  • 23rd International Istanbul Film Festival, National Competition, " Special Jury Prize " award for best actress
  • National Critics' Prize at the Film Festival "Golden Apricot " Yerevan (Armenia )
  • Sundance / NHK Filmmakers Award for Best European Screenplay 2003
  • Film of the Month December 2005, the jury of the Protestant Film
  • Film Award of the city of Freistadt at Heimatfilmfestival 2006
France Film score Michael Galasso Deportation
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