SNOW AND THE BEAR

KAR VE AYI

By Selcen ERGUN

ARTHOOD ENTERTAINMENT GMBH - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2022

Asli is recently appointed as a nurse to a small, distant town, where the winter has become seemingly endless this year and raised rumours of bears awakening early from winter-sleep. When a man from the town goes missing, Asli finds herself surrounded by power relationships, secrets, and doubts.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2022
Discovery
Luxembourg City Film Festival 2022
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022
Golden Orange for best actress, Special Jury Prize for Best First Film
Balkan Film Festival 2022
Mena Film Festival 2022
International Bosphorus Cinema Association 2022
Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Editing, Best Cinematography
Film Festival Cottbus of Eastern European Cinema 2022
Turkish film Festival Frankfurt 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • TURKEY, GERMANY, SERBIA
    • Languages
    • TURKISH
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Selcen ERGUN
    • Writer(s)
    • Selcen ERGUN, Yeşim ASLAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Nefes POLAT (NEFES FILMS), Michael ECKELT (RIVA FILMPRODUKTION GMBH), Miloš IVANOVIĆ (SET SAIL FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Aslı is a young nurse, recently appointed to a border town in Turkey, a remote place cut off from the world by harsh winter that never seems to come to an end and awakens fearful rumours of bears rising from their winter sleep. When a man from the town goes missing one night, Aslı finds herself surrounded by power relationships, secrets, and doubts. This is the story of a young woman who must find her way in a society conditioned by masculinity and her crash-course in discovering a side of her that is as tough as the winter itself.