Synopsis
Shakespeare’s King Lear travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into Queen Lear in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group.
Credits
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directed by
- pelin esmer
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producers
- pelin esmer
- dilde mahalli
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co-producers
- barış bıçakçı
- eda arıkan
- feride çiçekoğlu
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camera
- morteza atabaki
- pelin esmer
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editing
- pelin esmer
- eren aksu
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music
- barış diri
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sound recording
- hüseyin can erol
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sound design
- kubilay tok
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colorist
- murat birkon
- camera assistants
- çağlar fatih
- kuzey demir
- music studio
- ubormetenga
- post production studios
- 1000 volt
- atlas
- arslanköy village theatre group
- behiye yanık
- cennet güneş
- fatma fatih
- ümmü kurt
- zeynep fatih
- hüseyin arslanköylü
- ahmet aksoy
- erkan güzel
- mersin municipal theatre group
- general art director
- ahmet aksoy
- performers
- ahmet aksoy
- erkan güzel
- eren demirel
- bedrettin yıldırım
- hüseyin erdal
- bülent kızıldağ
- musicians
- abidin aslan (violin)
- celalettin eryürek (oud)
- technical director
- adnan göksu
- logistic support
- mehmet çetinkaya
- gürhan ötün
- hair and make-up
- merve sakallı
- theatre group assistants
- mithat fatih
- samet güneş
- drivers
- bedrettin yıldırım
- hüseyin erdal
- alettin erkek
Technical Info
- original title: Kraliçe Lear
- english title: Queen Lear
- production company: Sinefilm
- production country: Turkey
- production year: 2019
- genre: feature documentary
- formats: DCP
- color: color
- duration: 84 minutes
- language: turkish
- subtitles: english, arabic, french, german, spanish
- aspect ratio: 16:9
- sound: 5.1
Cast
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participants
- behiye yanık
- cennet güneş
- fatma fatih
- ümmü kurt
- zeynep fatih
- hüseyin arslanköylü
- ahmet aksoy
- erkan güzel
Festivals / Awards
- 25th Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (World Premiere)
Documentary Film - 26th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Turkey
Yılmaz Güney Award
Best Music Award
SIYAD “Cüneyt Cebenoyan” Best Film Award - Başka Sinema Ayvalık Film Festival, Turkey
2019 Selection - 56th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Turkey
Special Screenings - 8th International Zeugma Film Festival, Turkey
Living Together - 13th Sinemardin International Mardin Film Festival, Turkey
2019 Selection - This Human World 12. International Human Rights Film Festival, Austria
Austrian Premiere - FIPADOC International Documentary Festival, France
International Documentary - 43rd Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden
Nordic Premiere: Five Continents - 35th DOK.fest München, Germany
German Premiere - 23rd Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, Turkey
- 2020 Selection: “Each has a Different Color”
- 28th Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival, Spain
- Spanish Premiere: “Panoràmica 2020”
- 18th Filmmor Women’s Film Festival Online, Turkey
- 2020 Selection
- 23rd Maine International Film Festival, United States of America
- 2020 Selection
- 15th South East European Film Festival Los Angeles, United States of America
- Best Documentary Award
- 52nd SIYAD Awards, Turkey
- Best Feature Documentary Award
- Orient Express Film Festival, Switzerland
- 2020 Selection
- 17th Paris Turkish Film Festival, France
- 2020 Selection
- 17th Provinziale Filmfest Eberswalde, Germany
- Audience Award in Documentary Film
- Millenium International Documentary Film Festival, Belgium
- 2020 Selection
- 20th Türkisches Filmfestival Frankfurt, Germany
- Birol Unel Special Jury Award
- 24th PriMed International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary & Reportage, France
- Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Cultures Award
- 8th Seattle Turkish Film Festival, United States of America
- 2020 Selection
- Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China
- Nominee of Special Jury Prize
- 18th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, United States of America
- 2021 Selection
- 15th Filmreihe Tuepisch Tuerkisch, Germany
- 2021 Selection
- 39th International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA), Canada
- Grand Jury Award
- Thin Line Film Music Fest, United States of America
- 2021 Selection
- Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, United States of America
- 2021 Selection
- 26th Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival, Morocco
- The Grand Prize
- 1st Izmir International Film and Music Festival, Turkey
- 2021 Selection
- 20th Le Grand Bivouac Festival, France
- 2021 Selection
Press
REVIEWS
- 02.11.2019 Manifold – Feride Çiçekoğlu / “Kraliçe Lear”
- 16.11.2019 Evrensel – Şenay Aydemir / “Oyun’a devam…”
- 16.11.2019 İleri Haber – Kaya Özkaracalar / “Kraliçe Lear”
- 17.11.2019 T24 – Atilla Dorsay / “Shakespeare oynayan Toros’lu köylü kadınların hikayesi”
- 20.11.2019 Cumhuriyet – Emrah Kolukısa / “Kraliçeler yolda”
- 22.11.2019 Cumhuriyet – Sungu Çapan / ” ‘Oyun’un devamı ‘Kraliçe Lear’ gösterimde”
- 23.11.2019 Orta Koltuk – Kamuran Kaya / “Kraliçe Lear”
- 25.11.2019 İZGAZETE – Batıgün Sarıkaya / “Hayata oyunla bakmak”
- 04.05.2020 Maviblau – Seda Sina / “Wenn fünf Schauspielerinnen „King Lear“ zu „Queen Lear“ machen”
- 07.06.2020 Yeni Film – Pınar Öğünç / “Kraliçe Lear: ‘Bizim köyde özgüvene arsızlık derler.'”
- 29.06.2020 Gazete Pencere – Erhan Karadağ / “Kraliçe Lear”
- 25.11.2020 La Marseillaise – Philippe Amsellem / “Primed : regards acérés sur ce qui agite le bassin méditerranéen”
- 26.02.2021 epd Film – Alexandra Seitz / “Mubi: Werkschau Pelin Esmer”
- 03.10.2021 Evrensel – Dilara Bilgisel / “Belgeselden kurguya Pelin Esmer sineması”
- 11.04.2022 The Guardian / “Queen Lear review – Turkish villagers do Shakespeare in ode to collective power of art”
THESES/ARTICLES
- 2021 sinecine: Journal of Film Studies, Ulaş Can Olgunsoy / “Is Cinematic Realism Still Possible? Realist Tendencies In Turkish Cinema Today in the Context of Classical and Current Theories”
- 2021 Reflektif Journal of Social Sciences, Feride Çiçekoğlu, Yağmur Nuhrat / “How Theater (Trans)lates/Forms: Gendered Emotional Labor in Pelin Esmer’s Films”
INTERVIEWS
- 13.09.2019 BirGün – İmran Gökçe Şahin / ” Pelin Esmer’le Kraliçe Lear’ı konuştuk: ‘Kurtarıcı bekleyen’ kadın hikayesi değil”
- 01.11.2019 Altyazı – Aslı Ildır / “Shakespeare’in Keyfini Çıkarmak”
- 04.11.2019 TimeOut – Onur Aymete / “Turneye davetlisiniz”
- 14.11.2019 T24 – Muammer Brav / “Köyde tiyatro yapan kadınların öyküsü Kraliçe Lear’dan; Suç ve Ceza Film Festivali’ne: Ekşın’da bu hafta”
- 14.11.2019 Woman TV – Aslı Öymen’le Yaşasın Sanat / “Kral Lear Toroslar’da Nasıl Kraliçe Lear’a Dönüştü” Part 1
- 14.11.2019 Woman TV – Aslı Öymen’le Yaşasın Sanat / ” Toroslar’da Bir Avuç Kadının Öyküsü: Kraliçe Lear” Part 2
- 15.11.2019 NTV – Gülay Afşar – Gece Gündüz / “Pelin Esmer ”Kraliçe Lear”ı Gece Gündüz’de anlattı”
- 16.11.2019 Hürriyet Cumartesi – Uğur Vardan / ” ‘Oyun’dan ‘Kraliçe Lear’e…”
- 16.11.2019 Filmloverss – Murat Emir Eren, Güvenç Atsüren / “Pelin Esmer ile Kraliçe Lear’a Dair”
- 18.11.2019 Milliyet – Burçin S. Yalçın / “Sanat herkese iyi gelir”
- 19.11.2019 GazeteKadıköy – Gökçe Uygun / “Kraliçe Lear Umut Verecek”
- 01.12.2019 Bir Artı Bir – Ayşegül Oğuz, Yiğit Atılgan / “Kader, kısmet, Shakespeare’deki hikmet”
- 26.01.2020 RFI – Siegfried Forster / “Fipadoc: ‘Queen Lear’, quand une paysanne turque devient roi”
- 29.05.2020 YA DA – Esra Ballım / “Sosyolojinin kamçıladığı merak duygusu, sinema yapmama büyük destek olmuştur”
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