28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Callshop Istanbul

Callshop Istanbul

director: Sami Mermer, Hind Benchekroun
original title: Callshop Istanbul
country: Canada
year: 2016
running time: 89 min.

synopsis

Long phone calls from a city that became an entry gate for migrants on the border of Asia and Europe. One-way communication shows how people feel when they leave their family far behind. Vivid Istanbul, pulsing phone centers, and three men from Senegal. The men who came to find a better life that is slow to come.

biography

Turkish directors Hind Benchekroun (1973) and Sami Mermer (1974) have co-directed Turtles Do Not Die of Old Age (2012). Both are documentary filmmakers of international renown. Benchekroun’s debut was called Taxi Casablanca (2008), Mermer made a documentary sci-fi The Box of Lanzo (2005).

more about film

director: Sami Mermer, Hind Benchekroun
producer: Hind Benchekroun, Sami Mermer
photography: Sami Mermer
editing: Sami Mermer
sound: Martin Allard
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms