NARRATIVE
SHORT
DOCUMENTARY
FEATURE
NARRATIVE
FEATURE


WITCH TRILOGY
Wandering between genres from horror to dark comedy, three connected films that collectively will form
a new work by telling the cycle of violence and abuse which know no time and place.
A trilogy to explore women, violence, sacrifice and revenge through
different forms, ratios, spaces, stories and characters.
A FOURTEEN-YEAR OLD GIRL,
COMMUNICATES WITH A SPIDER IN A DARK BASEMENT
WITHOUT KNOWING THE TIME AND PLACE
A -ONE SHOT SHORT FILM-
HORROR, DRAMA
15 MINUTES
COLOR
NO DIALOGUE
2.39:1
TURKEY
FILMADA
2019


DERYA PINAR AK | TUĞRUL TÜLEK
POSTER ILLUSTRATOR ELIF VAROL ERGEN POSTER DESIGN DILDE MAHALLI PAINTER NIHAL MARTLI
HAIR & MAKE UP ARTIST ESMA KESKIN 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR MERVE TOZ COSTUME DESIGN ALCESTE TOSCA WEGNER SOUND ÖZGÜR ÖZDEN MUSIC EKIN FIL
SOUND DESIGN AND MIX FATIH RAĞBET, ELI HALIGUA PRODUCTION DESIGN SILA KARACA, SEDA SAÇLI DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY GÖZDE KOYUNCU
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS MERVE TOZ, UMAY CIMTAY CO-PRODUCERS ÖZGE ÖZPIRINÇCI, TÜLIN ÖZEN, CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELIK PRODUCED BY ARMAĞAN LALE
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELIK

WORLD PREMIERE 52th Sitges Film Festival
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival
HAVING HAD ENOUGH,
THE WITCHES ARE SCREAMING WOUNDS AND HEALINGS
OUT OF PRISONS
EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY
71 MINUTES
COLOR
TURKEY
FILMADA
2022

15+ asks questions to two women
who had been subjected to domestic violence by their husbands,
and killed the men in self-defense.
15+ listens to their memories of childhood,
the stories behind the objects they always keep with them,
the photographs they take, the drawings they make, the rhymes they learn by heart,
the tales they tell, the animals they like, the way they look at sacrifice,
to be seen as executioners by the law, and their thoughts about witchcraft as a way to heal.
15+ sees their nightmares and dreams through their eyes.

PARTNERS AND FUNDS
NEW FILM FUND PRODUCTION SUPPORT (TURKEY)
MINISTRY OF CULTURE DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCTION SUPPORT (TURKEY)
EUROPEAN UNION SIVIL DÜŞÜN PROGRAMME (TURKEY)
ANTALYA FİLM FORUM DOCUMENTARY WORK IN PROGRESS AWARD (TURKEY)

ON THE FEAST OF THE SACRIFICE,
A FAMILY GATHERING OF WOMEN TURNS INTO
A TRAGICOMIC NIGHT OF BLOODY VENGEANCE
FANTASY, DARK COMEDY
95 MINUTES (ESTIMATED RUNTIME)
COLOR
TURKEY
FILMADA
2023

A DARK COMEDY ABOUT THE FAMILY ITSELF AS THE NEST OF VIOLENCE
A MUSICAL FANTASY ABOUT DISCONNECTED SOULS TRANSFORMING INTO A CLAN OVERNIGHT
A TIMELESS AND PLACELESS TALE ABOUT WOMEN BY WOMEN FOR ALL

PARTNERS AND FUNDS
MEETINGS ON THE BRIDGE FILM DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP GENIUSPARK VFX AWARD WINNER
GERMAN - TURKISH CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT FUND
MEDIENBOARD BERLIN BRANDENBURG 3 MONTHS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
SAN FRANCISCO - SFFILM RAININ SCREENWRITING GRANT
CANNES RESIDENCY SHORTLIST
FIN PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION MARKET (CANADA)
CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELİK
writer/director

Ceylan (1980) is an Istanbul-based filmmaker who studied law at Marmara University but never practiced.

In 2003, after having worked as a text writer at several TV stations, she started to produce and host a TV show about cinema which ran for ten years. Between 2003 and 2015, she produced and hosted culture-art shows for TV and radio, and furthermore edited behind-the-scenes and award ceremony clips. In 2013, a book of interviews and media memoirs written by her, was published. Her movie reviews were published on print media for fourteen years. She participated in tens of film labs such as Directing Actors with Adrienne Weiss, Choreography and Movement Direction in Film with Francesca Jaynes, Cinematography with Stuart Dryburgh and Acting with Melissa Leo.

In 2015, Ceylan founded the Istanbul-based production company EHY Film to co-produce her own films and young talents’ projects with whom she has worked.

After having made three shorts, in 2017, she made her feature debut with Kaygı/Inflame, a psychological thriller about memory, which made its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival’s Panorama Special section. Inflame had screened at a further 40 festivals worldwide and won the Luna Gamechanger Award at SXSW. Ceylan and the film were covered by the media outlets including Variety, Women and Hollywood, Tagesspiegel, ZDF and Politiken. FilmRise had acquired North American rights to Inflame and the film was shown at various events in the U.S. including Alamo Drafthouse Film Club. Inflame is currently streaming on U.S. Amazon Prime and MUBI.

Ceylan has been giving seminars on “Communicating with the Crew” and “Making a Debut Feature Film” at colleges and events for the last five years. She has attended to more than fifty film festivals and competitions as jury member including Turkey’s largest and foremost events, Istanbul Film Festival and Antalya Film Festival.

In 2017, she directed an episode of 7Yüz/Seven Faces, a miniseries, which is a thematic anthology comprising of seven stand-alone episodes examining "what-if" scenarios, released on the local streaming service BluTV. Ceylan became the first woman filmmaker to direct for a streaming service in Turkey.

Ceylan has been working on her new project: Witch Trilogy, which tells its tales in different genres and stories by exploring violence against women and little girls, since four years.

The fiction short Witch Trilogy 13+, a one shot horror/drama made its premiere at the 52nd Sitges Film Festival in 2019 and shown at various festivals including Ann Arbor, Fantaspoa and Brussels Fantastic Film Festival.

The documentary feature Witch Trilogy 15+, which portraits two women subjected to domestic violence by their husbands, and kill the men in self-defense is ready to meet with its audience at the festivals, very soon.

The feature fiction Witch Trilogy 18+, a dark comedy about the women of a mysterious family, is to be shot by the end of 2022 with an all-female cast. Ceylan was an artist-in-residence at Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in 2018 and an SFFILM Rainin Screenwriting grantee in 2019 with 18+. Also she was one of the twelve candidates for the Résidence du Festival Cannes in 2019.



FILMOGRAPHY

2023 WITCH TRILOGY 18+ FICTION FEATURE - FANTASY, DARK COMEDY
SCRIPT, DIRECTOR, CO-PRODUCER
(IN FINANCING)

2022 WITCH TRILOGY 15+ DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - EXPERIMENTAL
DIRECTOR, CO-PRODUCER
(COMING SOON)

2020 ANKEBÛT - DOCUMENTARY SHORT - EXPERIMENTAL
DIRECTOR

2019 WITCH TRILOGY 13+ FICTION SHORT - HORROR, DRAMA
WRITER, DIRECTOR, CO-PRODUCER

2017 7YÜZ / SEVEN FACES / TV MINI SERIES - THRILLER, DRAMA
DIRECTOR (EPISODE KARSILASMALAR)

2017 KAYGI / INFLAME - FICTION FEATURE - PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
SCRIPT, DIRECTOR, CO-PRODUCER

2011 ADIL YA DA DEGIL / BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY - FICTION SHORT - PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
SCRIPT, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER

2009 ONLAR BIRBIRLERINI SEVDILER AMA / SO CALLED LOVE STORY - FICTION SHORT - MUSICAL
SCRIPT, DIRECTOR, EDITOR, PRODUCER

2007 NISANIN HER TARAFI VICDAN OLSA / HOW MUCH DOES PRIDE COST - FICTION SHORT
SCRIPT, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
ARMAĞAN LALE
producer

Armağan is an Istanbul based producer, graduated from Yeditepe University, Faculty of Radio Tv and Cinema.

She has worked in news channels including CNN Turk for three years. And then she stepped into the film industry as production assistant at SINEFILM. She had worked with one of the prominent directors of contemporary Turkish cinema, Pelin Esmer and performed as assistant director & associate producer for four years. Meanwhile she also worked as the representative of international formats of CBS, Carsey Werner at the fifty year-old production company UMUT SANAT.

Armağan founded FILMADA in 2013 to support innovative young filmmakers. She has been working with Ceylan Özgün Özçelik since her debut film Kaygı / Inflame and the duo is currently working on the Cadı Üçlemesi / Witch Trilogy films.

Armağan has produced five award winning shorts and four award winning features which have screened in Berlinale, SXSW, Sitges, Karlovy Vary, Ann Arbor, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, RIDM and DokuFest among many other international festivals.

Armağan has been giving lectures on “Indie Film Producing” at colleges and special events for the last couple of years. She has served as jury member for international and national festivals including North Bend Film Festival and Turkey’s largest documentary festival Documentarist.

Armağan Lale is a member of DAE Documentary Association of Europe.



FILMOGRAPHY

2023 WITCH TRILOGY 18+ FICTION FEATURE - FANTASY, DARK COMEDY
DIR: CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELIK
PRODUCER
(IN FINANCING)

2023 GÜNEŞ / WHEN THE SUN COMES OUT - FICTION FEATURE - DRAMA
DIR: ZEYNEP GÜZEL
PRODUCER
(IN DEVELOPMENT)

2022 WITCH TRILOGY 15+ DOCUMENTARY FEATURE – EXPERIMENTAL
DIR: CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELIK
PRODUCER
(COMING SOON)

2020 ANKEBÛT - DOCUMENTARY SHORT - EXPERIMENTAL
DIR: CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELIK
PRODUCER

2019 UZUN ZAMAN ÖNCE / LONG TIME AGO - FICTION FEATURE - THRILLER, DRAMA
DIR: CIHAN SAĞLAM
CO-PRODUCER

2019 WITCH TRILOGY 13+ FICTION SHORT - HORROR, DRAMA
DIR: CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELIK
PRODUCER

2017 TAŞ/ THE STONE - FICTION FEATURE - DRAMA
DIR: ORHAN ESKIKÖY
PRODUCER

2017 KAYGI / INFLAME - FICTION FEATURE - PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
DIR: CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELIK
CO-PRODUCER

2017 SARI SICAK / YELLOW HEAT - FICTION FEATURE - DRAMA
DIR: FIKRET REYHAN
LINE PRODUCER

2016 KILÇIK / FISHBONE - FICTION SHORT - DRAMA
DIR: KEREM AYAN
PRODUCER

2016 CEMIL ŞOV / THE CEMIL SHOW - FICTION SHORT - DRAMA
DIR: BARIŞ SARHAN
PRODUCER

2014 KUMUN TADI/ SEABURNERS - FICTION FEATURE - DRAMA
DIR: MELISA ÖNEL
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

2014 KAR KORSANLARI/ SNOW PIRATES - FICTION FEATURE - DRAMA
DIR: FARUK HACIHAFIZOĞULLARI
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

2013 AĞRI VE DAĞ / AĞRI AND THE MOUNTAIN - FICTION SHORT - DRAMA
DIR: HASAN SERIN
PRODUCER

2012 GÖZETLEME KULESI/ WATCHTOWER - FICTION FEATURE - DRAMA
DIR: PELIN ESMER
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

2009 11’E 10 KALA/ 10 TO 11 - FICTION FEATURE - DRAMA
DIR: PELIN ESMER
FESTIVAL COORDINATOR & PRODUCER’S ASSISTANT

OTHER WORKS
POLAND’S NEXT TOP MODEL / DISCOVERY TVN - 2019 PRODUCTION SERVICE - ISTANBUL
END OF EMPIRE / RAINDANCE ENTERTAINMENT - 2018 PRODUCTION SERVICE - ISTANBUL
NIELEGALNI TV SERIAL / CANAL+ POLAND - 2018 PRODUCTION SERVICE - ISTANBUL
THE OLIVE ROUTE / ICTV SOLFERINO - 2011 LINE PRODUCER - TURKEY
PROCHAIN ARRÊT: İSTANBUL / ARTE FRANCE - 2009 PRODUCTION ASISSTANT - ISTANBUL