Country: Turkey
Year: 2023
Duration: 18'
Not able to get an abortion, high school student Mira is forced to hide her pregnancy for 9 months. She decides to sell her baby to a couple that live in the same neighborhood who cannot conceive. The couple lies to everyone for 9 months saying that Serpil (the wife) is pregnant. Mira arrives at the couple’s house for the labor but things don’t go as planned and the three have to face a deep secret.
Biography
film director
Onur Güler
(Turkey, 1987) is a graduate of Haliç University Conservatory Theatre Department. With his debut short film Emptiness (2012), he received the Special Jury Award at the prestigious Adana Golden Boll Film Festival in Turkey. The second short film, The Hurt, won the Best Film award at the 21st Izmir Short Film Festival. Recently, he worked as the assistant director for Mahmut Fazil Coşkun, an acclaimed director at the Venice Film Festival. He also works as a director of an institution providing funds and training to new filmmakers in Turkey.
FILMOGRAFIA
Boşluk (Emptiness, cm, 2012), Sizi (The Hurt, cm, 2016), Yara (The Hurt, cm, 2020), Hangi Gece Büyüdüysem (The Surrogate Girl, cm, 2023).
Declaration
film director
“In order to avoid neglect and abuse, women are frequently forced to disregard their own pain and find ways to solve their problems. In the film, while one woman must conceal her childbirth, the other woman must hide her lack of childbirth. Both Mira's difficult start in life and Serpil's inability to have a child are met with societal expectations, forcing them to live in secrecy and conformity. Through this film, I aimed to bring attention to the moral complexities in our lives where distinctions between right and wrong are hazy, and to uncover a universally relatable human condition.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Onur Güler. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Orçun Özkılınç. EDITING: Amir Etminan. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Güzin Erkaymaz. SOUND: Adnan Akdağ. CAST: Aslihan Kapanşahin, Nilperi Şahinkaya, Ersin Arici, Şükran Akti. PRODUCTION: Onur Güler, Rıfat Erkek.
CONTACT: The Surrogate Girl Film thesurrogategirlfilm@gmail.com
