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“Autumn” is a mood film with beautiful views of nature, and Man in the
foreground. Sentenced to jail in 1997 as a university student aged 22,
Yusuf is released on health grounds 10 years later. He returns to his
village in the eastern Black Sea region, where he is welcomed only by his
sick and elderly mother. Economic factors mean that it is almost
exclusively old people who live in the mountain village, and the only
person Yusuf sees is his childhood friend Mikail. As autumn slowly gives
way to winter, Yusuf goes with Mikail to a tavern where he meets Eka, a
beautiful young Georgian hooker. Neither the timing nor circumstances are
right for these two people from different worlds. For all that, love
becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.

Özcan Alper
Özcan Alper (b. 1975, Artvin, Turkey) studied physics and history at
Istanbul University before starting work in 1999 as an assistant director
and production manager on several feature and TV films. In 2001 he made his
first short, "Grandmother", shot entirely in Hemsin, a dialect spoken in
the north-east. It was the first Turkish film in that language. This first
work won him several awards, which enabled him to find funding, in
particular from the Turkish Ministry of Culture, for his first feature
film, “Autumn”.

Asli Selcuk
Asli Selcuk completed her master and doctoral studies at Sorbonne
University, France. She worked with such famous names as Ömer Kavur,
Claude Lelouch, Patrice Leconte, Olivier Guiton, and Costas Coutsomits.
Asli Selcuk is a film critic, a member of jury at different national and
international film festivals, the author of the book „Cinema, the witness
of the time“ („Cagin Tanigi Sinema”), the head of the department of
Communication Design-Multimedia of Yildiz Technical University in Turkey.

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