Title of film : Going Blind
Director Name : Haci Orman
Cast & crew :
Producer : Haci Orman,Sedat Yilmaz
Editor : Sedat Yilmaz
Cast :
Synopsis : Sinan is a visually-impaired poet. Although he has lost his vision at the age of 3, he is a humorous man at peace with his blindness. His wife Nilgün, wants to bestow Sinan the gift of the visual World and convinces him for an operation. Following the successful operation, Sinan begins to see vaguely. But after a while, he experiences disruptions in adapting. Nilgün is convinced that the chaos originates from habits formed during Sinan’s days of blindness, and thus increases the pressure on him to adapt to the world of the seeing. The tension leads to a tragic face off where they question each other’s personalities. Just then, when the doctor states that if Sinan does not go through a second operation, he will become blind for good.
Director Bio : He worked at several newspapers and radios. He worked as the editor-in-chief for the “Speaking Magazine”, Turkey’s first art magazine published for the visually-impaired. He took on the Kurdish production of Harold Pinter’s stage play Mountain Language. He has worked as education expert on human rights and culture policies at several NGOs within the European Union. He was imprisoned twice on political grounds. In 2015, he shot the short film Homo Politicus about the historical dialogue between German Pastor Lepsius and Turkish general Enver Pasha and in 2016 he was invited to the Council of Europe. He participated to platforms including Sundance Lab, Meetings on the Bridge, Thessaloniki Crossroads, EMCF, Sofia Meetings, Ankara Film Forum, Antalya Film Forum, Bosphorus Film Lab with his feature film projects, Going Blind and The Interrogation. Going Blind is his first feature film.
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