Kosmos

Kosmos, 2010
Turkey, 35mm, Color, 121’
Cast: Sermet Yeşil, Türkü Turan, Hakan Altuntaş, Sabahat Doğanyılmaz

The film tells the story of Kosmos, a traveler who takes refuge in the snow-covered town of Kars, and follows this unusual man in search of “love” who can work miracles such as resurrecting dead children. It is like a tale in which faith, healing, war, borders, animals, shamanism, and Kars come together.

“This is a universe in which animals and humans share a common fate. Whether of iron or flesh, full of fear or shrieking, all these animals look at us through excellent detail shots; they do or don’t ‘understand’ everything just like us…. Kosmos is the story (or parable) of the unwariness in the human world parallel to the world of animals who even though they can’t understand the world sense this lack of understanding … The feeling of a country in which everyone is just waiting, a country in a limbo between military and civilian, between messiahship and madness, between the feeling that ‘nothing is happening’ and the expectation that ‘something will’… This feeling has been admirably communicated.” – Fatih Özgüven