Game Over

Friday, September 15 at 17:00

Director: Saeed Mayahi, Miriam Carlsen

Country of origin: Turkey, 2022

Runtime: 28'

Croatian Premiere

SUMMARY

In a basement in Istanbul a group of illegal Afghan teenage boys are determined to smuggle themselves into Europe – a utopia far away. Caught in the no-man's land between childhood and adulthood they fearlessly play a dangerous game of destiny over and over again. But at what cost?

Director Biography

Saeed Mayahy is an Iranian film director born in 1991 in Bushehr. He graduated from Bushehr Film School in 2013, where he debuted in with the documentary “The Camera” in 2012. Since then 10 films have followed. ”Don’t worry, be happy” was bought by NRK TV station and others have been screened at many festivals such as Miami International Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival, Arpa film festival, Giffoni film festival, Canberra Short Film Festival, Linz International Short Film Festival, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, Festival Filministes, The International Outdoor Documentary Film Festival of China. Miriam Carlsen grew up in a globetrotter family, with a dad specializing in sustainable energy solutions for Third World countries. Traveling and hosting people from all national and ethnically backgrounds, has shaped her passion for human narratives and their impact on cultural bridge building. She worked in Norway in the organization RAMP, an NGO for integrating team building and guidance for orphanage refugee minors from Iraq and Afghanistan. It led to an increased interest for a deeper understanding of human life in the MENA region and interest in the Afghan matter. Later on, she learned Arabic and lived in the Middle East. Since then, she has lived in Taiwan, Lebanon and Turkey and furthermore spend a good deal of her life, traveling the Globe. The last couple of years, she worked as an international television reporter in Istanbul. However, she missed the human faces and in-depth coverage in the news feeds and the more personal story telling. When she came up with the idea for making this documentary film, she left her corporate life to pursue the privilege of being fully in charge of creative decision-making and the production process. Except for a few courses in film production, she is autodidact in film creation, driven by an interest in visual story telling and social relations. With a background in Social Anthropology, she has lived and worked with cultural dissemination and film languages in Taiwan, Lebanon and Turkey.

ISTRA FILM predstavlja HISTORY FILM FESTIVAL

Izvršna direktorica TIHA MODRIĆ

Producenti TIHA MODRIĆ & DEJAN BOJC

Video produkcija ROBERT KALČIĆ & IGOR MODRIĆ

Dizajner ROBERT KRANČIĆ

Fotografije RINO GROPUZZO

Grafičko i web oblikovanje GRAFIK, Rijeka