Synopsis
Living on the fourth floor of Emniyet Apartment Building, Mr. Mithat has, against all threats he has faced, managed to protect his collection, which he has been working on since years and that has left him with only a small space to live in. Any piece that he searches for to maintain the coherence of the collection could lead him anywhere in Istanbul. For Mr. Mithat, Istanbul is as unlimited as his collection. For Ali, Istanbul is limited with Emniyet Apartment Building and its surrounddings. Coming from the village to Istanbul, Ali started to work as concierge in the apartment , and when his daughter contracted asthma due to the humidity in the concierge`s floor, Ali sent his family back to their home in the village for a while until the conditions were ameliorated. When the other tenants of the apartment building, out of fear of an earthquake and with the ambition to own a more valuable building, prefer to have the building demolished to be rebuilt again, Mr Mithat begins the most challenging of wars he gave for his collection. The building now ist he shared destiny of these two men who live alone. Their relationship that begins for the intactness of the collection takes on a different level with Mr. Mithat turning Istanbul over to Ali, and it ends where they change each other`s destinies unknowingly.
Credits
- writer & director
- pelin esmer
- producers
- nida karabol akdeniz
- tolga esmer
- pelin esmer
- co-producers
- juliette sol (fransa)
- mustafa dok (almanya)
- supported by
- arte france cinéma
- director of photography
- özgür eken
- editing
- ayhan ergürsel
- pelin esmer
- cem yıldırım
- art director
- naz erayda
- line producer
- özkan yılmaz
- sound recording
- kasper munck-hansen
- sound editing
- umut şenyol
- sound mix
- marc elsner
- michael kaczmarek
- casting director
- harika uygur
- assistant directors
- başak göksel
- tuba çoban
- focus puller
- engin özkaya
- second camera assistant
- salih dikmen
- assistant line producer
- benan baf
- second production assistant
- birkan yılmaz
- assistant art director
- güneş çoban
- second assistant art director
- sima ertem
- third assistant art director
- hande cedimoğlu
- gaffer
- ersin aldemir
- grip
- gürkan kahraman
- steadycam operator
- tuncay başpınar
- post production studio
- imaj
- online editing and color grading
- bora gökşingöl
- sound mix studios
- headroom studio (berlin)
- k13 kinomischung (berlin)
- foley artist
- peter drexler
- translations
- serra yılmaz
- lucy wood
- nancy öztürk
- melahat behlil
- juliette sol
Technical Info
- original title: 11’e 10 kala
- english title: 10 to 11
- shooting format: HDCAM
- formats avaliable: 35 mm. , HDCAM, DCP
- color: color
- number of reels: 6
- running time: 110′
- original film language: turkish
- subtitles: english, french, spanish, german
- screening ratio: 16:9 (1:1,78)
- sound: dolby digital
- countries of production: turkey – france – germany
- year of production: 2009
Cast
- nejat işler ali
- mithat esmer mithat bey
- tayanç ayaydın ömer
- laçin ceylan feride hanım
- savaş akova ruhi bey
- sinan düğmeci old books seller
- tülin özen oung woman in the cemetery
- aşkın şenol ahmet
- selen uçer mahinur
- emine şans umar hülya
- füsun demirel gülümser’s voice
- liezer abravaya radio technician
- okay şenol 1st city inspector
- koray bülent tarhan library worker
- kutay ülkü head librarian
- arzu kaçmaz gülten
- ceren süer selen
- dilek altuğ ruhi bey’s wife ayşe
- serkan keskin photocopyist
- arzu kaçmaz gülten
- nida karabol akdeniz doctor
- ahmet sarsılmaz security
- gülden avşaroğlu newspapaer archivist
Festivals / Awards
- San Sebastian International Film Festival / Spain
Official Selection – Golden Seashell Nominee - Toronto International Film Festival / Canada
City to City - Istanbul International Film Festival / Turkey
Special Prize Of The Jury - Adana Golden Boll Film Festival / Turkey
Best Film
Best Screenplay - Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF)/ Abu Dhabi
Best New Middle Eastern Director - Tromsø International Film Festival / Norway
FIPRESCI Award - The International Film Festival Rotterdam / The Netherlands
- Official Selection
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival / Estonia
- Official Selection
- Nürnberg Turkish-German Film Festival/Germany
Best Film
Critics Award - Ankara International Film Festival / Turkey
Best Director
Onat Kutlar Best Screenplay
Best Art Direction - Cinema Novo Film Festival / Belgium
Honourable Mention of the Main Jury
Honourable Mention of the Young Jury - Tetouan Uluslararası Film Festivali / Fas
Special Prize Of The Jury - IndieLisboa Film Festival/ Portugal
Special Prize Of The Jury - Tofifest International Film Festival/Poland
Best Film - Eurasia Film Festival / Kazakhstan
Best Director
Press
REVIEWS
- Radikal, Uğur Vardan, 2009 / “Çevreye verdiğim rahatsızlıktan dolayı…”
- Beyazperde, Ali Ercivan, 2009 / “11’e 10 Kala”
- Altyazı, Ayça Çiftçi, 2009 / “Zamanda ve Mekanda Buluşmalar: 11’e 10 Kala”
- Yeni Film, Doğan Yılmaz, 2009 / “Modası Geçmiş Bir Adam: Mithat Bey”
- Cineuropa, Vladan Petkovic, 2010 / “10 to 11: Preserving history in the modern world”
- Repliques, Emilie Weynants, Clement Gacheny, 2010 / “Pelin Esmer, la curiosite comme leitmotiv”
- Le Courrier de l’ouest, 2010 / “Pelin Esmer, une belle jeunesse turque”
- Personal Blog, Resül Efe, 2011 / “11’e 10 Kala”
- Perlentaucher, Lukas Foerster, 2011
- Le Monde, Thomas Sotinel, 2011 / “Dans le capharnaüm des souvenirs turcs”
- Telerama, Jeremie Couston, 2011 / “Les collections de Mithat Bey”
- Bir Kapıdan Gireceksin: Türkiye Sineması Üzerine Denemeler, Feride Çiçekoğlu, 2012 / “Ses Ve Zaman 11’e 10 Kala”
- Serbestiyet, Yıldız Ramazanoğlu, 2015 / “11’e 10 Kala: Hayat hakkında delil toplayan adam”
- Aydınlık, Tunca Arslan, 2016 / “Şehrimizden bir koleksiyoncu gitti”
- Personal blog, Kadir Durukan, 2018 / “11’e 10 Kala”
- BÜMED, Sina Küçük, 2020 / “Mithat Bey’in manyetolu feneri”
- FF2 Media, Roza Melkumyan, 2020 / “Esmer’s 10 to 11 evokes simultaneous feelings of anxiety and calm”
- epd Film, Alexandra Seitz, 2021 / “Mubi: Werkschau Pelin Esmer”
- Evrensel, Dilara Bilgisel, 2021 / “Belgeselden kurguya Pelin Esmer sineması”
THESES/ARTICLES
- Makbule Esen Kunt, 2013 / “The Construction of Femininity Within the Context of Masculinity in New Turkish Cinema”
- Bahattin Emirönal, 2016 / “Reality in the Threshold Which is Beyond Documentary and Fiction: Pelin Esmer’s Cinema”
- Damla Pirli, 2018 / “Narrative Structure and the Representation of Individual in Non-Mainstream Turkish Cinema: The Case of Pelin Esmer’s Cinema”
- Ulaş Can Olgunsoy, 2021 / “Is Cinematic Realism Still Possible? Realist Tendencies In Turkish Cinema Today in the Context of Classical and Current Theories”
INTERVIEWS
- Milliyet Sanat, Ceyda Aşar, 2009 / “Belgeselde misafir, kurmacada ev sahibiyim”
- Altyazı, Senem Aytaç, Berke Göl, Fırat Yücel, 2009 / “Pelin Esmer: ‘Süreklilik Sağlamaya Çalışan Bir Cambaz'”
- Sinema, Müjde Işıl, 2009 / “Gerçeğin fantastikliğinden besleniyorum”
- Manifesta Journal, Senem Aytaç, 2011 / “The Collector: An Interview with Mithat Esmer”
- YA DA, Esra Ballım, 2020 / “Sosyolojinin kamçıladığı merak duygusu, sinema yapmama büyük destek olmuştur”
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