Director: Rüya Arzu Köksal
Screenplay: Rüya Arzu Köksal
Producer: Aydın Kudu
Participants: Yunus Mollaahmetoğlu, Merve Aksoy, Turan Bahadır

In a beautiful summer day, people enjoy the sea of the Dutluk Beach in Vakfıkebir town; children playing ball, others dancing, sunbathing, swimming and the elders sitting in the tea garden. A little way off this scene, tens of trucks jangly tipping rocks into the shore, the machines filling the sea with rocks and the construction work of the jetties take the stage. While the natural ports and the fishermen’s shelters are being destroyed because of the construction of the new highway, the fishermen are looking for a new place for themselves, tragicomically, transporting their boats through the land route. “The Shore” is the story of the Black Sea people being ruptured from their sea on the pretext that construction of a highway. 

Rüya Arzu Köksal

She received her B.A. degree on General Linguistics at Hacettepe University. She has been working as a professional tourist guide in Turkey and also leading cultural trips to Central Asia, India, Nepal and Tibet. Her travel articles have been published in a number of newspapers and magazines. She is member of The Association of Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey. Her first film, “Forsaken Paths” received awards at Boston Turkish Films Festival, Ankara Film Festival and IFSAK.

Festivals & Awards

2008 TRT Documentary Film Competition:Best Film
2008 Ankara Film Festival:3rd Best Prize

Filmography

2008 Son Kumsal/The Shore
2007 Eski Foça’da Yeni Hayat/New Life in Old Foça (short documentary)
2006 Yollar Çimen Bağladı/Forsaken Paths (documentary)