Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds

Feature, 101 min, Turkey 2004
Saturday, July 2th, 19:30 hrs, 

Director & Script: Ahmet Uluçay
Photography: Ilker Berke
Editors: Seanad Presheva, Mustafa Presheva
Music: Ender Akay, Alper Tunga Demirel
Sound: Bülent Nurgonul
Principal Cast: Ismail Hakki Taslak, Kadir Kaymaz, Gülayse Erkoç, Boncuk Yilmaz, Hasbiye Günay, Mustafa Coban, Fizuli Caferof

Producers: Serdar Tahiroglu, Serkan Cakarer, Diloy Gulun
Executive Producer: Ezel Akay
Production: IFR A.S

Distribution: IFR A.S
Tel: 0090 212 324 762 4
Fax: 0090 212 324 763 6
www.ifr-productions.com

Selected Filmography Ezel Akay: Where’s Firuze, 2003; The Waterfall, 2001; Journey to the Sun, 1999; Somersault in a Coffin, 1996.

An Anatolian village in the 1960s. Recep sells melons, Mehmet works at a hairdresser’s. Both are dreaming of their own movie theater. They have managed to get hold of a few film strips, and they have a barn to seat the audience. But how are they supposed to put movies on a screen without electricity and a projector? And Mehmet runs into an altogether different problem: his passion for cinema is rivaled by other feelings for the first time upon his falling in love with a customer’s daughter. With an ease like François Truffaut’s and a visual brilliance reminiscent of the work of Abbas Kiarostami, Turkish autodidact Ahmet Uluçay has made a debut film with a nostalgic hue that tells the story of a love for cinema and the end of a childhood.