Game Interrupted
Türkiye / Fiction / 15' / HD / Color / 2023
1979, Turkey: While the mood on the streets of capital Ankara is charged with tension shortly before the military coup, a young sister and brother find their way out of boredom by switching from one game to another during their winter break. Their mother is at work all day and their grandmother is sleeping on the couch as usual. However, something goes wrong that day. While trying to figure out what happened, they notice a strange intruder at the door, who resembles Khomeini or Darth Vader. They must fix the course of events before their mother returns home.
Director: İlayda İşeri
Script: İlayda İşeri
Director of Photography: Bünyamin Karair
Producer: Fehmi Öztürk, Nefes Polat, Tolga Karaçelik
Music: İlayda İşeri, Seçkin Çalışkan
Editing: Fırat Terzioğlu
Sound: Tuğrul Gültepe
Animation: Cem Erdoğan, Mehmet Fatih Yaşar, Gültekin Yusuf İşman, Mert Barut, Yaren Aydınhan, Ecenur Aydoğan
Cast: Bahar Sare Vural, Mustafa Enis Bilir, Zeynep Kılınç
CV
Ilayda Iseri is a 20-year-old director and composer from Turkey. Her short documentaries Kozan (2020) and The Fountain (2021) were screened at distinguished festivals, including the San Francisco Film Festival, and received international recognition with several awards. With her first fiction short film “Game, Interrupted”, she became the youngest director in Turkey to receive funding from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. The film also won the best screenplay award at Akbank Film Forum, an honorable mention in STFF, and screened at Tampere Film Festival for the world premiere. She is currently studying philosophy and physics at Bogazici University while working as the assistant director of Sundance winner Tolga Karacelik.
Filmography
Game, Interrupted (2023)
The Fountain (2021)
Kozan (2020)
Festivals Attended
Tampere Film Festival 2023
Visioni Corte Short Film Festival 2023
Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival 2023
LUCAS - International Festival for Young Film Lovers 2023
YOUKI - International Youth Media Festival