Before the Night (2022)
Before the Night portrays ordinary life under the enduring state of emergency, from the perspective of its three characters. Gulbîn, a painter living with her parents, is trying to make her own way in life, while obsessively painting a portrait of her mum with inspiration from Whistler's painting Mother. The mother models for her daughter while trying to insulate her house from the noise of the bombs to no avail. The father, whose health is deteriorating, tries to reimagine his war-stricken city with old photographs he took.
Director: Ali Kemal Çınar
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Gulbîn Bozan as Gulbîn |
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Rabia Çınar as Anne |
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Hüsnü Timur as Baba |
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İhsan Şakar as İrfan |
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Lisa Çalan as Lisa |
| Production | Ali Kemal Çınar | Producer |
| Camera | Yağız Yavru | Director of Photography |
| Production | Ahmet Gürata | Producer |
| Sound | Mustafa Avcı | Music |
| Art | Mehtap Yıldırım | Art Direction |
| Production | Çekdar Erkıran | Producer |
| Production | Hasan Demir | Producer |
| Directing | Ali Kemal Çınar | Director |
| Editing | Ali Kemal Çınar | Editor |
| Production | Paulo Maria Spina | Co-Producer |
| Production | Nesra Gürbüz | Producer |
| Writing | Ali Kemal Çınar | Writer |
| Art | Efrîn Özyetiş | Art Direction |
| Editing | Dua Özbilenler | Colorist |
| Sound | Gianfranco Tortora | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Yılmaz Çintan | Sound |
| Lighting | Jiyan Varlık | Lighting Artist |
| Sound | Rüstem Öveç | Sound |
| Sound | Eli Haligua | Sound Designer |