A woman plants an umbrella against the apocalypse of memory.
Alis, an Armenian woman in Turkey, returns to her summerhouse to find her surroundings gone. Urban change threatens her home. Haunted by childhood traumas, she resists, planting her plastic umbrella as a quiet yet firm defiance.
Cinematography
Crushed concrete and summer light as characters.
Direction
Tan makes 18 minutes feel like a lifetime.
Acting
Türkali's silence screams louder than dialogue.
Director
Beril Tan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film quietly evokes the 1915 Armenian displacement without naming it, letting architecture do the speaking.
Director Beril Tan based the summerhouse on her own grandmother's demolished home in Istanbul's rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.
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