THE APPLE

Type:
Fiction

Duration:
15 mins

Year:
2023

Director:
Mehmet Acaruk

Producer:
Menderes Karasu

Country:
Kurdistan (Bakur)

Languages:
Kurdish

Subtitles:
English

When Zerya encounters one of Magritte’s “Apple” paintings in a museum in Paris, the traumas of the past suddenly resurface. A short film by Mehmet Acaruk, which has already been successfully screened at other film festivals and is now premiering in the Netherlands. Also nominated in the category of best short!

Mehmet Acaruk has been doing professional photography for about ten years. He worked for a long time in Iz Magazine, with the editor-in-chief of Ara Güler, who is known as a master photographer in Turkey and around the world. He took important roles in the “Fotografevi” (which is known as a workshop, exhibition, Iz Magazine, and publishing house), the Turkey representative of “Magnum Photos”. He worked as a specialist sociologist in Turkey’s many important civil organizations (TEGV, ZENTARA).

He tried to transfer the story language he obtained from photography to cinema. It can be seen the effects of sociologist identity in all his works. He is of the opinion that all artistic and social disciplines should be addressed with aesthetic integrity. He takes his motivation for making movies from this claim.

“The Apple” is his first short film.