We are delighted to share that LFS Filmmaker Emre Kayis' graduation film Çevirmen (The Translator) has won the 'Best Short Fiction Film Award’ at the 6th Okan University Short Film Competition.
"The Translator" is an intimate portrait of a Syrian refugee boy; Yusuf, a shy, sensitive Syrian refugee who lives in exile in a remote Turkish border town is chosen for his newfound power but he has to experience how to use it, at the cost of his innocence.
This is not the first win for the film, which has also been awarded "Best Sound" at Cluj Shorts 2016 in Romania. The jury there praised "the precision with which a diverse range of sounds are combined, for the ability to weave a complex acoustic atmosphere, meant to be perceived only by a very attentive ear."
Production of the short took place in May 2014, on location in Antakya, Turkey.