KÜF/ MOLD

A Film by Ali Aydın
Featured at New Directors / New Films*
Presented by Film Society of Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art

Thursday, March 21
Screening Time: 8:30pm
MoMa Titus 1
11 West 53rd Street

Saturday, March 23
Screening Time: 6pm
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street, 4th Floor

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Winner – 69th Venice Film Festival - International Critics Week "Lion of The Future Award"

2012/ DCP/ 94 minutes
In Turkish with English Subtitles

“A textbook example of how international art-cinema has somehow come to equate slowness with profundity”
– Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter

Cast & Credits

Written and Directed by Ali Aydın
Produced by Gökçe Işıl Tuna, Sevil Demirci, Cengiz Keten, and Ali Aydın
Featuring Ercan Kesal, Muhammet Uzuner, and Tansu Biçer

A railroad inspector spends his days in the gorgeous Anatolian outback looking for cracks on the line and his evenings writing letters to the government looking for news about his son who disappeared 18 years ago. Basri (Ercan Kesal) fights bureaucracy and secrecy in the person of police inspector Murat (Muhammet Uzuner) and the spellbinding character study, with shades of Raskolnikov, is completed by a third man, Cemil, whose anti-social behavior begs confrontation. As tension mounts Aydın shows his considerable talent bringing this poignant tale to its heartbreaking finale.

Ali Aydın

Born in 1981, Ali Aydın lives in Istanbul. He studied art management at Yıldız Technical University. He has worked as an assistant director in various films and television series. He also works
as a scriptwriter. "Mold " is his feature debut as a scriptwriter and a director.

*New Directors/New Films is an annual showcase of work by emerging filmmakers from around the world.