Burak Cevik’s new film “Forms of Forgetting”, starring Erdem Şenocak and Nesrin Uçarlar, had its world premiere in the Forum section of the 73rd Berlin Film Festival.
Burak Çevik’s film “Forms of Forgetting”, which took part in the Berlin Film Festival for the third time with his new film, which achieved significant success after the films “Tuzdan Kaide” and “Belonging,” had its world premiere on the evening of February 18. After the screening, which attracted great interest, director Burak Çevik took the stage with the actors of the movie Erdem Şenocak and Nesrin Uçarlar.
Before the screening, the film crew commemorated those who lost their lives in the earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş and Hatay on the stage and drew attention to the failure to take the necessary precautions for the earthquake and the inadequacy of the subsequent rescue efforts.
Competing for the Caligari Award in the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival, Çevik answered the questions of the audience after the movie.
“Forms of Forgetting” meets its audience in America.
Ways of Forgetting will meet with New York moviegoers on March 2, following the 73rd Berlin Film Festival, where it had its world premiere, with its North American premiere in the Doc Fortnight selection of MoMA / The Museum of Modern Art, one of the most important modern art museums in the world. Doc Fortnight brings together artists and directors who explore the politics of sound, the inner workings of memory, the untold historical facts that archives can tell, and what is at stake in the documentary’s core premise, through innovative and experimental approaches to non-fiction.
Right after, the film will be screened again on March 3 at the True/False Film Festival, one of the important film festivals of documentary cinema, held between March 2 and 5 this year. The festival selects films that cross the border between reality and fiction; draws attention to innovative work, creative approaches and works that provoke dialogue about its subject and documentary format.
It will premiere in France at the Cinema du Reel.
“Forms of Forgetting” will have its French premiere at the 45th Cinema du Reel International Documentary Film Festival, which will be held between March 24 and April 2, following its American screenings. Featuring 41 works between 4 and 634 minutes, the films in the main competition bring together the names of contemporary creations, emphasizing the legacy of the genre and memory. “Forms of Forgetting” will meet the French audience on March 25.
Forms of Forgetting will meet its audience in Turkey this year.
Known for his bold and innovative films in which he pushes the possibilities of storytelling in cinema, his latest film “Forms of Forgetting”, which is about a couple who broke up 14 years ago, is an experience of how history is layered and rewritten over and over again through the reunion of the couple years later, unable to remember how they broke up. offers.
“Forms of Forgetting”, the text of which was penned by the director Burak Çevik with Nesrin Uçarlar and Erdem Şenocak, who starred in the movie, is planned to meet the audience in Turkey in 2023 with a special event calendar.
Who is Burak Cevik?
Burak Çevik studied Cinema-Television at Istanbul Bilgi University. The films Tuzdan Kaide (2018), Belonging (2019) and Forms of Forgetting (2023), which he directed and produced, had their world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival. His films and video works have been screened at prestigious festivals and museums, notably MoMa, Lincoln Center, Locarno Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, FID Marseille and New York Film Festival.