Film Screening - AFLOAT - followed by Q&A with filmmaker Aslihan Unaldi

Original Title / English Title: Suyun Üstü / Afloat
Country, year, length: Turkiye, 2023, 115 mins
Language / subtitles: Turkish and English with Subtitles
Screening format: DCP

Director: Aslıhan Ünaldı
Script: Aslıhan Ünaldı
Producer/s: Kamen Velkovsky, Aslıhan Ünaldı Camera: André Jäger
Music: Davut Özdemir, Deniz Güngör
Cast: Nihan Aker (Zeynep), Elit İşcan (Yasemin), Serhat Ünaldı (Yusuf) , Lila Gürmen (Alev), Eren Çiğdem (Ali) , Oscar Pearce (Stephen)

Social media: https://www.instagram.com/afloatthefilm/

Trailer https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/865375059/f7396df28a

Logline: When two sisters embark on a sailing trip along the serene Aegean coast with their fractured family, simmering resentments and buried secrets rise to the surface, threatening to shatter their fragile bonds with each other and their homeland.

Short Synopsis
Zeynep returns home to Turkey to reunite with her divorced parents and estranged younger sister. The family embarks on a sailing trip, a last chance for her father Yusuf, a dissident journalist sentenced to prison, to reconnect with his daughters. Once contained on the small boat, tensions rise, and when a young local man disrupts the delicate family dynamics the trip takes an unexpected turn.

Afloat, which premiered at the São Paulo International Film Festival in October 2023 and has since been screened at prestigious festivals including Valencia, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Sofia, Istanbul, New York Cinefest.