PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Emre Yeksan, director of the film The Gulf.
FRED has the pleasure to meet Emre Yeksan, director of The Gulf, here in Venice in the International Critic’s Week selection.
The Gulf: leaving behind a ruined career and a bitter divorce, Selim returns to his hometown Izmir. Unwilling to make plans for the future, he wanders around revisiting his past: family, schoolmates, an ex-lover. He runs into Cihan, a friend from the military service, an idler with a charming energy. As people start leaving Izmir due to a terrible smell caused by a mysterious maritime accident, Selim finds himself gradually drawn to a new world where he will go back embracing the possibilities of life.