Queen Lear
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.
  • directed by
    • pelin esmer
  • producers
    • pelin esmer
    • dilde mahalli
  • co-producers
    • barış bıçakçı
    • eda arıkan
    • feride çiçekoğlu
  • camera
    • morteza atabaki
    • pelin esmer
  • editing
    • pelin esmer
    • eren aksu
  • music
    • barış diri
  • sound recording
    • hüseyin can erol
  • sound design
    • kubilay tok
  • 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
  • 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
  • participants

    • behiye yanık
    • cennet güneş
    • fatma fatih
    • ümmü kurt
    • zeynep fatih
    • hüseyin arslanköylü
    • ahmet aksoy
    • erkan güzel
  • 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