We Are a Family
Turkey, 19m, Digital
Haluk, an incompetent factory owner, competes with his wife and skillful operations manager Güler. As the power crisis between the husband and wife escalates, someone unexpected will suffer from it in a most tragic way.
Content Warning: Sexual Assault
Writer/Director: Melik Kuru
Producer: Selman Nacar
Director of Photography: Baris Aygen
Editor: Bugra Dedeoglu, Melik Kuru
Production Design: Dilsad Aladag
Sound Design: Yalin Ozgencil
Cast: Ahmet Kaynak, Sezin Bozacı, Elit Iscan. Sencar Sagdic
Contact: Melik Kuru, mk3948@columbia.edu
2021 Program A
Screening May 8, 2022 at 3pm
About the Writer/Director
Melik Kuru (1989, Istanbul) had his BA in Media and Visual Arts at Koc University. He was awarded with Mithat Alam Film Foundation’s Grant of Graduate Education and moved to New York in 2016. His Columbia University Thesis We Are a Family had its national premiere at Antalya International Film Festival National Short Competition. Currently, he is working on his feature debut All They Know About Love.
About the Producer
Selman Nacar is a filmmaker who received his MFA in Film Directing at Columbia University in New York and taught a fiction filmmaking course at the same university. He graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University Law Faculty in 2015 and Film Faculty in 2016. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talent 2019 and First Films First 2020. Selman is the owner of Kuyu Film, which produced The Pillar of Salt in 2018 and Belonging in 2019, which both premiered at Berlin Film Festival Forum Section. He directed his debut film Between Two Dawns in 2020 and is currently working on his second feature film Hesitation Wound.
