Gardfren tells us Kemal's lonely journey in a cold winter day. Kemal is 30 years old and
works as a gardfren (brake guard) in the railway. Kemal, in a place that is slightly bigger
than a bier, goes along with isolated stations of Anatolia and the cold. He passed endless
rail tracks, the same stations, the same streets, the same boringness and the same
loneliness…
Awards received by this film :
• 10th DokuFest Documentary and Short Film Festival Best International Short Film
• Hangzhou Asia Film Festival Official Selection 2012
• 1st China Silk Road International Film Festival Audience Favourite Award
• Jordan Short Film Festival 2010 Official Selection
• International Eskişehir Film Festival 2013
• 1st Diyarbakır Short Film Days 2011
Names of crew members:
Director : Cüneyt Karaahmetoğlu
Producer : Işıl Ege
Screenplay : Özlem Saraç
Cüneyt Karaahmetoğlu
Director of Photography : Burak Yazıcı
Editing : F. Selim Söğüt
Ayhan Çetiner
Sound Designer : Murat Şenürkmez
Sound : Harun Yasin Tuna
Furkan Atlı
Assistant Director : Aksel Özcan
Elif ayan
Production Manager : Levend Çağıl
Focus Puller : İhsan Öztürk
Yalçın Avcı
Production Designer : Selim Alan
Costume : Burcu Söylemez
Make up : Çiğdem Uzundağ
Cast:
Kemal : Ayhan Çetiner
Esma : Deniz Bolışık
Child : Burak Ayaz
Chief of The Train : Mustafa Polatgil
Railway Officiers : Yusuf Güngör Mustafa Ateş
Oktay Ulutaş
Cüneyt Karaahmetoğlu is an Istanbul based director, project developer, DoP and
photographer. He graduated from Anadolu University Cinema-TV Department. He won
secondary prize in Metro Short Film Festival with his graduation movie, On Your Own . He
studied at Documentary Department at Film Akademie Baden Wüerrttemberg. He started
to work as film camera assistant. He was selected to Berlinale Talent Campus. He worked
as camera assistant in more than 400 commercial films and in some famous Turkish
feature length movies like Organise İşler, Hokkabaz, Neşeli Hayat, Eyvah Eyvah etc. In
2010 he shot his first fictional short film called Gardfren and won "Best International Short
Film Prize" in DokuFest Film Festival in 2011. He created and shot two year long time
lapse documentary project, “5 Centuries Later 4 Seasons in Istanbul from Sinan’s
Minarets” sponsored by Turkish Airlines and Sony Euroasia. He creates and produces his
own art marketing projects for companies since 2012. And also he is working as DoP.
On Your Own
Gardfren