Film Festival 2025
Winner of Best Feature at Malta’s Mediteranne Film Festival, this epic tale of fate and human frailty unfolds in Istanbul after a forced engagement drives Hicran (Miray Daner) to flee her home. When her fiancé tracks her down, the confrontation forces them to face their true feelings and desires.
film details
| Director: | Zeki Demirkubuz |
| Producers: | Zeki Demirkubuz |
| Screenwriter: | Zeki Demirkubuz |
| Cinematographers: | Cevahir Sahin, Kursat Uresin |
| Editor: | Zeki Demirkubuz |
| Cast: | Miray Daner, Burak Dakak, Cem Davran, Umut Kurt, Melis Birkan, Osman Alkas |
| Original Language Title: | HAYAT |
| Country: | Turkey |
| Language: | In Turkish with English subtitles |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Running Time: | 193 minutes |
| Director Filmography: | Nausea (2015), Inside (2012), Destiny (2006), The Third Page (1999), Innocence (1997) |
| Awards: | Best Feature Film, Mediterrane Film Festival; Best Feature Film, Nuremberg Turkey-Germany Film Festival; Grand Jury Prize, Nuremberg Turkey-Germany Film Festival |
| Primary Company: | Festival On Wheels |
| Contact Email: | basakemre.festival@gmail.com |