ABOUT ARIF
Tecahül-i Arif

	SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 3:45 pm Boston University, GSU Auditorium 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston In competition Directed by Hasan Kalender Short / 12 min. / 2016 Cast: Deniz Özkan, Sabriye Kara, Altan Erkekli, Erdem Baş, İlkay Çelik
Arif with down syndrome lives with his mother. He helps her with chores. He tidies up, washes the dishes, and takes his mother for a walk. Shopkeepers in the neighborhood provide Arif with supplies saying “Your mother pays in the beginning of the month.” But the truth known by the neighborhood is different.

HASAN KALENDER

Hasan Kalender studied fine arts in Dokuz Eylül University located in Izmir, Turkey, and finished a film-making course in New York Digital Film Academy. His documentary, “Remains from History”, was added into the archives of The Union of Documentary and Cinema Makers and was also screened in film festivals throughout Europe in the context of 1001 Documentary Film. His short film “The Last Breath” won three, and “The Last Decision”, supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture, won 14 awards in various festivals. He further studied filmmaking in New York Digital Film Academy with a scholarship that he won from the Sinepark Short Film contest. He initially worked as an assistant director for three years, and later started shooting commercials. He supervised and edited the feature film “Güzel Günler Göreceğiz” in 2011. He won Best Editing Award in the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. Since 2008 he shoots commercials as a freelance director. Filmography: Remains from History / Tarihten Kalanlar (Doc., 2003) The Last Breath / Son Bir Nefes İçin (Short, 2004) The Last Decision / Son Karar (Short, 2006) Love Abroad / Gurbette Aşk (TV series, 2014) Sebahat and Melahat (Feature film, 2015) About Arif / Tecahül-i Arif (Short, 2016)