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İki Laborantın Yorgun Saatleri (The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants)

İki Laborantın Yorgun Saatleri (The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants)
İki Laborantın Yorgun Saatleri (The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants)

Synopsis

At midnight, two lab assistants study an unknown substance using machines and procedures that are unclear to us. They pursue knowledge through the strict logic of the laboratory. As exhaustion settles in, one of the assistants brews Turkish coffee for the other, and the night shifts. The process becomes a fortune-telling, and the scientific gaze gives way to intuition. Moving from analysis to foresight, the two women imagine another method of knowing, a space where rational inquiry and intuitive perception coexist.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2026 - Forum Expanded - World premiere

Details

Year
2026
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
22 min
Director
Burak Çevik
Producer
Burak Çevik
Co-Producer
Kanat Doğramacı, Nuri Cem Erbak, Vanja Vascarac, Stjepan Hundic
Editor
Burak Çevik
Screenwriter
Burak Çevik
Director of Photography
Gregory Oke
Production Designer
Dilşad Aladağ
Composer
Zeynep Toraman
Principal cast
Nalan Kuruçim, Bahar Çevik, Didar Püren Erbek
Sound Design
Taylan Geçit, Deniz Can Barış

Genre

Drama Experimental

Categories

Fiction Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Turkey, UK, Croatia co-production

Fol Film (TR), Maya Film (UK), Vertigo Media (HR), Robot 22 (HR)

Maya Film

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