Present Tense (2012)
Planning to take any job she can get in order to save enough money and leave Turkey for the U.S., Mina is hired at an Istanbul café as a fortune teller who reads the dregs in coffee cups. She discovers she has the ability to offer comfort and insight to the customers who are just as lost in the wilderness as she is.
Director: Belmin Söylemez
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Sanem Öge as Mina |
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Şenay Aydın as Fazilet |
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Ozan Bilen as Tayfun |
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Nesrin Yıldırım as Nesrin |
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Ayça Damgacı as Customer |
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Nalan Kuruçim as Customer |
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Sezin Bozacı as Crying Woman |
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Erdi Kement as Ersin |
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Suat Oktan as Guard |
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Hüseyin Akdağ as Night Shift Fortune Teller |
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Aliye Karahan as Customer |
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Elif Ongan as Customer |
| Directing | Belmin Söylemez | Director |
| Writing | Belmin Söylemez | Writer |
| Production | Hasmet Topaloglu | Producer |
| Camera | Peter Roehsler | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Ali Aga | Editor |
| Art | Revan Barlas | Art Direction |
| Writing | Hasmet Topaloglu | Writer |
| Editing | Belmin Söylemez | Editor |
| Sound | Cenker Kökten | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Cenker Kökten | Original Music Composer |