SPECIAL SCREENINGS

ALL OVER THE PLACE - A PORTRAIT OF TUNCEL KURTİZ

Director: Özcan Alper

Türkiye / 2025 / Colour / 85’ / Turkish; English subtitles

Screenplay: Özcan Alper

Music: Erdem Helvacıoğlu

Cinematography: Orçun Özkılınç, Övünç Sarp Özdemir

Editing: İsmet Araç

Cast: Erkan Can, Nur Sürer, Halit Ergenç, Cansu Dere, Şevval Sam, Fatih Akın, Berkay Ateş, Nursel Köse, Reis Çelik, Menderes Samancılar

Producer: Soner Alper, Mert Gençbay, Rabia Çelik

Production Company: Nar Film, 19:30 Film, Yedi Yapım

World Rights: Nar Film

Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz’s acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many different genres and styles. As an actor, Kurtiz believes in the creative power of chaos: ‘Chaos is the most difficult to create / Not a false chaos / Many things come out of chaos’. Through testimonies, film excerpts, and archive footage, this documentary reflects Tuncel Kurtiz’s diverse body of artistic work in all its dimensions for the first time. In the background of this detailed portrait are Turkey’s turbulent years and the reality of exile.

Özcan Alper

Özcan Alper, born in Artvin in 1975, debuted with the film AUTUMN (2008), which gained wide recognition at over 60 international film festivals and received multiple awards. It earned a nomination for the European Discovery of the Year Award from the European Film Academy. His film, BLACK NIGHT (2019), has also made its mark on the festival circuit. Collectively, Özcan Alper’s films have been showcased at over 100 festivals across the globe and have been honored with over 50 awards.