Majority
Turkey / Fiction / 102' / 35mm / Color / 2010
Twenty-one-year-old Mertkan has a stable but unfulfilling life in Istanbul:
living at home with his parents, working as an office boy in his father's construction company, hanging out with his buddies in shopping malls and discos. When he meets Gül, a Kurdish girl from eastern Turkey, awkward Mertkan starts to become a bit more self-confident, and it seems possible that he could break away from his oppressive parents. But Mertkan's domineering father opposes any association with "those people who only want to divide our country". Will Mertkan be strong enough to avoid becoming the kind of man that his father wants him to be?
Director: Seren Yüce
Script: Seren Yüce
Director of Photography: Barış Özbiçer
Producer: Sevil Demirci, Önder Çakar
Editing: Mary Stephen
Sound: Mustafa Bölükbaşı
Cast: Bartu Küçükçağlayan, Settar Tanrıöğen, Nihal Koldaş, Esme Madra, İlhan Hacıfazlıoğlu, Cem Zeynel Kılıç, Feridun Koç, Mehmet Ünal, Erkan Can
CV
Seren Yuce was born in Istanbul in 1975. He graduated from Bilkent University of Ankara, Archeology Department. Between 1999- 2005 he worked as 1st AD on television series. In 2006, he was the 1st AD in Ozer Kiziltan’s Takva/ A Man’s Fear of God and 1st AD in Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven. He was the 1st AD for Yesim Ustaoglu in Pandora’s Box.
His first feature film Majority made its world premier and received Luigi de Laurentis Award for a Debut Film from Venice Film Festival and the best director, the best actor awards at Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival at its premier in Turkey, Golden Gateway Award for Best Film and Silver Gateway Award for Best Actor awards at 12th Mumbai International Film Festival, and Grand Jury Price at 23nd Premiers Angers European First Film Festival. His second feature film Swaying Waterliliy appeared as world premier in Montreal World Festival where it received the best script awards.
Filmography
Rüzgarda Salınan Nilüfer 2015
Çoğunluk 2010
Festivals and Awards
Venedik Film Festivali 2010 - Luigi De Laurentiis Award
Toronto Film Festivali 2010
Rotterdam Film Festivali 2011
Buenos Aires Bağımsız Filmler Festivali 2011
Karlovy Vary Film Festivali 2011
Göteborg Film Festivali 2011
Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali 2010 - Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director
Melbourne Film Festivali 2011
Zürih Film Festivali 2011
Hong Kong Film Festivali 2011
Mumbai Film Festivali 2010 - Golden Gateway Award, Best Actor
Ankara Film Festivali 2011 - Best Supporting Actor, Most Promising Actor
SİYAD Ödülleri 2010 - Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay