2014, Turkey, 5’, color

Director: Gizem Bayıksel

Producer: Gizem Bayıksel

Cast: Esme Madra, Nazlı Bulum, Asiye Dinçsoy

Cinematography: Gizem Bayıksel

Editor: Çiçek Kahraman

Art Director: Seda Yılmaz

Sound: Oğuzhan Akalın, Miraç Atıcı

 

Becoming an adult begins with moving out from your parents' house. While leaving the house, Derin hides an adult secret in the toy-box filled with her childhood memories. We step into adulthood sometimes voluntarily, or sometimes involuntarily and it gradually expands with inevitable confrontations.

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Awards & Selected Festival Screenings

• 6th LGBT Film Festival, Poland – Best Short Film: Audience Award

• 1st Cutting Edge Film Festival, USA – Best Short Film

• 25th Oslo/Fusion Film Festival, Norway

• 4th China Women’s Film Festival, China

• 5th Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, South Africa

• 26th Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey

• 28th Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg, Germany