https://youtu.be/TZ08p9jiWks
Original Name: Bina
English Name: The Antenna
Year: 2019
Run Time: 115'
Language: Turkish
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Turkey
Director: Orçun Behram
Producer: Orçun Behram, Müge Özen
Cast: Ihsan Önal, Gül Arici, Levent Ünsal, Murat Saglam
Screenplay: Orçun Behram
Cinematographer: Engin Özkaya
Editor: Burç Alatas
Sound Designer: Ismail Hakki Hafiz
Music Composer: Can Demirci
Costume Designer:
Production Designer: Ufuk Bildibay
Production Company: Lucidlab Films, solis films
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Festivals:
Toronto IFF 2019
BFI London FF 2019
Torino FF 2019
Selected Filmography:
2016 Sri-Lanka: People's Story (Doc)
2015 Mongolia (Short)
2008 Fotoroman (Short)
2002 Ejakülasyon (Short)
Director’s Biography : Orçun Behram was born in 1987. He completed the FAMU one year international programme, with cinematography specialisation in 2006. In 2012 he obtained his baccalaureate from Columbia College Chicago. He has directed four short films and two documentaries, he also actively works as a photographer. The Antenna is his debut feature film. He is currently working as a director in a documentary television series, Stories from a Hidden World.
Synopsis: In a steely, desolate dystopian Turkey, a new satellite system promises radical change via the consolidation of communications through antennas mounted overhead on each building. On installation day, Mehmet, a superintendent who revels in the silence and solace of his occupation, is greeted with the accidental death of the government installer on his doorstep. Following the morning's unexpected excitement — scarcely noticed by the other tenants — Mehmet is tasked with finding the source of a toxic black sludge that has begun oozing from the building, infiltrating and infecting the units. A search for the source is underway, but as the first midnight broadcast hits, the inhabitants are isolated in their apartments where nightmares await. The loss of contact with the outside world inspires distrust and claustrophobia as the building rapidly shifts toward the unknown. There are no screams coming from the trapped citizens, but the silence that surrounds them is deafening.
