Project Description
Deniz Tortum

FSC-Harvard Fellow 2016-17, 2017-18
The corridors and denizens of a state-run hospital in Istanbul create a portrait of labor, life, anesthesia, and death. The hospital becomes an accidental microcosm of Turkish society. From waiting room to surgical theater to morgue, the human body is entered by technology, bureaucracy, and gossip.
A film production company—comprised of Turks, Kurds, Iraqi refugees and former soldiers of the Free Syrian Army—spend a day in the Turkish countryside, shooting a melodrama about the Kurdish-Turkish conflict.
Dokufest 2017 – Best Short Documentary, True/False Film Festival 2017, Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
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World Premiere of Deniz Tortum’s “Phases of Matter” at IFFR
Deniz Tortum, FSC-Harvard Fellow 2016-17, 2017-18, will screen his FSC supported film "Phases of Matter" as part of a world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) this January.