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TRT Co-Production “Uzun Zaman Önce” Returns from Dublin with an Award

“Long Time Ago”, written and directed by Cihan Sağlam, returned with an award from the 8th Silk Road International Film Festival, where it made his international premiere.

In the International Feature Film Competition of the film festival held in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, Onur Dikmen, the lead actor of “Long Time Ago”, has been granted the Award for Best Actor. “Long Time Ago”, which was also granted the “Best Actress” award in Boğaziçi Film Festival and “Best Supporting Actress” award in the International Adana Altın Koza Film Festival last year, is expected to release in Turkey in May 2020.

The Story of Losing Innocence

“Long Time Ago”, produced by Cenk Özçelik and Cihan Sağlam, is about two brothers who live in the shadow of their authoritarian father who has a quarry in an Anatolian town where they were born and raised and what happened after the murder they were accomplices. Starring Onur Dikmen, Orçin, Dengiz and Reha Özcan, the drama-thriller film tries to shed light on the roots of crime and penance, the dead ends of the father and son relationship, and the loveless history of relationships of women and men through the family institution and it tells the story of losing innocence based on the theme of “conscience”.