PRESENT TENSE

PRESENT TENSE (ŞİMDİKİ ZAMAN), 2012

Turkey| DCP, Color, 110' | Turkish

Filmmaker: Belmin Söylemez

Cast:Sanem Öge, Şenay Aydın, Ozan Bilen

Mina is unemployed for a long time, on bad terms with her family, and wants to forget her ex-husband and has to leave the house she is living in, in a month. She decides to start a new life in USA. She starts to work in a cafe as a fortune-teller from coffee grounds. She can’t promise happiness in three seasons to anyone but she invents a completely different style. She unites in the coffee grounds her own sorrows and hopes with the expectations of the customers. She becomes popular; her hopes for America blossom. Fazi, the other fortune-teller has found both a friend and a partner to open the cafe in her dreams. The rebellious boss Tayfun who sat behind the cash box with the pressure of her family, is in love with Mina. Mina is interested in neither business nor love. Her desire is to flee to the future rather than sink in present…