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I Had A Dream

Original title: "Bir Rüya Gördüm"

Directed by

Burcu Esenç Having begun her career as a journalist, she has worked as a director on private TV channels and TRT directing culture and art related programs. She shot her first independent documentary film titled “Sadik” in 2013 which won her many national and international awards. Believing, as always, that one and only thing needed for shooting a good documentary is that great affection for cinema, Mrs. Esenç has had a chance to become better informed about the history of her family as well as harsh historic facts.
Cantekin Cantez Born in Istanbul in 1981. He graduated Marmara University, Faculty of Communication in 2004 where he also completed his master’s degree studies in Radio TV Cinema. He worked for private TV channels as director of editing and director. He won various awards with his documentary titled “Sadik” in 2013 which was co-directed with Burcu Esenç.

Cinematography by

Levent Ahi

Edited by

Burcu Esenç , Cantekin Cantez

Music by

Gülcan Altan , Ferhat Özgür Kale

Main cast

Tevfik Esenç , Burcu Esenç


Color: colored, Running time: 66 min, Format: Full HD, Countries: TR, Languages: TR , FR , EN


Producer(s)
Burcu Esenç Having begun her career as a journalist, she has worked as a director on private TV channels and TRT directing culture and art related programs. She shot her first independent documentary film titled “Sadik” in 2013 which won her many national and international awards. Believing, as always, that one and only thing needed for shooting a good documentary is that great affection for cinema, Mrs. Esenç has had a chance to become better informed about the history of her family as well as harsh historic facts.
Cantekin Cantez Born in Istanbul in 1981. He graduated Marmara University, Faculty of Communication in 2004 where he also completed his master’s degree studies in Radio TV Cinema. He worked for private TV channels as director of editing and director. He won various awards with his documentary titled “Sadik” in 2013 which was co-directed with Burcu Esenç.
Umut Eğitimci After producing several radio shows and TV programs in Turkey, Umut went to New York City where she took classes on Film&Video at The New School University. She had an internship at PBS and co-produced off-off Broadway shows. She worked together with Tony & Emmy award winner producer Francine LeFrak and developed movies for TV. Her production 1001 New York Nights was staged at 15th International Istanbul Theater Festival. With a BA in Business Administration, Umut studies Master’s Programme in Cinema at Istanbul Commercial University.
Production company(s)

Umut Productions

Co-producer(s)

Burcu Esenç , Cantekin Cantez , Umut Eğitimci

Synopsis

In November 1993 a man in a small village in Turkey, closed his eyes to life. The history, tales and native language of a thousand years old people were also gone with him. A bird flew away, one of the windows of the College de France in Paris was broken for no reason. In Oslo, the sea fluctuated differently with this death. That man was Tevfik Esenç., the last representative of the Ubykh people who were exiled from their homeland after losing the Caucasian-Russian war. In the footsteps of this last Ubykh, this documentary tells his story.

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