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ALAZ FILM
Turkiye/PortugaL/Bulgaria 

Company Profile

ALAZ FILM is an independent production company founded by Atilla Salih Yücer and Kamen Velkovsky based in Türkiye, Portugal, Bulgaria and the United States. The company’s main focus is on under-represented voices and stories from the Middle East, Central & South America, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia while also developing new material with established directors from Europe and the United States.
Currently, in addition to Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” Alaz Film has two feature films that are making the festival rounds – Amman Abbasi’s sophomore feature “Yasmeen’s Element” and Rezan Yesilbas’ debut film “The Flying Meatball Maker”.


Upcoming titles that Atilla and Alaz Film is involved with include Jim Jarmusch’s “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” and Arnaud Desplechin’s “Two Pianos”.
Films in early pre-production and development include new features from Arnaud Desplechin, Todd Solondz, David Gordon Green, Sara Driver, Errol Morris, Maria Camila Arias and Susanna de la Salla.

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AILLA SALIH YÜCER

Producer

atilla@alazfilm.com +19177095951

https://www.alazfilm.com/

Company Highlights

SENTIMENTAL VALUE (2025)

Format:               Feature Film 

Genre:                 Drama

Director:             Joachim Trier

Screenplay:        Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt

Cast:                   Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning.

          

Two sisters have chosen very different paths in life. The older sister (35) has put her acting career ahead of everything, and slightly looks down on her younger sister (30) and her secure job, husband and two children. When their mother dies, their absent father - a once famous but now forgotten film director – reappears in their lives. He has written a film script and wants his eldest daughter to play the lead role. She wants nothing to do with him and rejects it outright, without even reading the script. 
By chance, a young Hollywood star discovers the father's old movies. And so, a golden opportunity arises to revive his long-dead  lm career. The famous star comes to Norway to play the role the father had written for his daughter. It turns out that the  lm is deeply personal: it deals with the death of the father's own mother (the sisters' grandmother) when he himself was just a child - a suicide that was most likely a consequence of her being mistreated and imprisoned during the war.

The long-term effects of this tragedy, although the grandmother died long before they were born, are felt to a far greater extent than the two sisters realized. Making the movie becomes an opportunity for the father to finally confront his demons, but it is also perhaps the daughters' last chance to reconcile with a father who has previously let them down so many times 
Joachim Trier's sixth film is an intimate, moving and often funny movie about family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.

YASMEEN'S ELEMENT (2024)

Format:               Feature Film 

Genre:                 Drama

Director:             Amman Abbasi

Screenplay:        Amman Abbasi, Sana Jafri and Jeffrey E. Stern

Cast:                   Eshal Fatima, Abeera Rubab and Nazir Ahmed Bulbul

"Yasmeen's Element" follows Yasmeen, a 12-year-old schoolgirl in a remote Pakistani village, as she embarks on a journey to find her missing homework assignment, a paper detailing her assigned element from the periodic table. After losing the paper, Yasmeen sets out on a quest to find her professor and complete the assignment, facing various obstacles and encountering intriguing characters along the way. The film explores themes of education, perseverance, and the complexities of rural life in a disputed territory. 

FLYING MEATBALL MAKER (2024)

Format:               Feature Film 

Genre:                 Drama

Director:             Rezan Yesilbas

Screenplay:        Rezan Yesilbas

Cast:                    Nazmi Kirik, Selin Yeninci, Sahabettin Dag

Meatball-maker Kadir dreams of taking flight but his in-laws vehemently disapprove, however, with a little help he may actually make good on this obsession, but as the old saying goes – best not fly too close to the sun.

Like Daedalus, Icarus and countless others before him, Kadir dreams of flying. His days are spent in the kitchen with his wife, Azize, preparing the meatballs he sells at night from his popular street kiosk. But with every spare waking moment, Kadir listens to podcasts, talks with his buddies, or searches on his phone to increase his knowledge about soaring above the earth. But as Kadir’s personal wishes and family responsibility come into conflict, it’s clear that he has little control over either.

Kadir’s flying machine of choice involves a parachute, which he can barely control, and a caged propeller strapped to his back – which looks about as perilous as it sounds. Nevertheless, after he locates a fellow flyer who is willing to tutor him in the finer skills of paramotoring, and it’s not long before Kadir is taking significant steps towards success. Azize’s gossiping family, however, disapproves. 

FATHER, MOTHER, SISTER, BROTHER (2026)

Format:               Feature Film

Genre:                 Drama/Comedy

Director:             Jim Jarmusch

Screenplay:        Jim Jarmusch

Cast:                   Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps and Charlotte Rampling

"Father Mother Sister Brother" is a triptych film directed by Jim Jarmusch that explores the dynamics of family relationships. Each of the three stories focuses on adult children and their relationships with their parents and each other, dealing with themes of estrangement, reconciliation, and the complexities of familial bonds. The stories are set in different locations: the Northeastern U.S., Dublin, and Paris, showcasing the universal nature of these relationships. 

80ème Festival International de Venise in Italy, Compétition Officielle

50ème Festival du film de Gand in Belgium, Film d'Ouverture

Festival International de Busan in South Korea

Festival International du Film à Chicago in the United States 

Festival International du Film de Rome, Alice nella Citta, Section Sintone in Italy

Arras Film Festival in France

Atlas d'Or Les Arcs Film Festival in France, Compétition

BLANQUITA 2022

Format:             Feature Film

Genre:               Drama 

Director:           Fernando Guzzoni

Screenplay:       Fernando Guzzoni

Cast:                  Laura Lopez Campbell, Alejandro Goic Jerez, Amparo Noguera, Roberto Farias

An 18-year-old foster home resident, Blanca, becomes the key witness in a scandal involving kids, politicians and rich men taking part in sex parties. But the more questions are asked, the less clear it becomes what is Blanca’s role in the scandal.

79th Venice International Film Festival in Italy, Official Competition Orizzonti
Best Screenplay
Busan International Film Festival in Korea
46th Mostra International de Cinema em São Paulo, International Perspective in Brazil
Arras Film Festival in France
Los Cabos Film Festival - Official Competition in Mexico
Stockholm Film Festival - Official Competition in Sweden
XIV Festival Internacional de cine de Cali in Colombia
Cineuropa Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Official Competition
Huelva Latin American Film Festival in Spain, Compétition Officielle

Golden Colon Best Film

Radio Exterior de España Award
Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, Horizons
Cairo International Film Fe
stival in Egypt, Panorama
Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival in Germany
IFFI Goa - World Cinema Section in India
Habana Film Festival in Cuba
Kolkata International Film Festival in India
Black Movie Festival in Switzerland
Oostende Film Festival in Belgium
Palm Springs International Film Festival in the United States 

TOTEM 2022

Format:              Feature Film

Genre:                Family Movie 

Director:            Sander Burger

Screenplay:        Sander Burger and Bastiaan Tichler

Cast:                   Amani-Jean Philippe, Ole van Hoogdalem, Lies Visschedijk, Emmanuel Ohene Boafo, Céline Camara, Kenneth Herdigein, Iliass Ojja, Bas Keijzer

Ama, the daughter of Senegalese asylum seekers, feels completely Dutch. When Ama’s mother and brother are arrested, Ama sets off in search of her father through Rotterdam in the middle of winter, hoping to avoid deportation. During this frightening and exciting journey, she discovers her roots, thanks in part to her extraordinary totem animal: a gigantic porcupine.

CineKid Festival - Official Selection
Opening Film - Public Award
Giffoni Film Festival 2023 - Official Selection Elements + 10
New York International Children's Film Festival

Grand Prize Feature (Live Action)
JEF Festival (Belgium)
Public Award
Stockholm International Film Festival (Sweden)
Luxembourg City Film Festival - Official Selection Young Audience

Kids jury award and school jury award
Utah Film Center - Tumbleweeds Film Festival (USA)
EU Film Festival San Marino
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Filmfestival (USA)
KICFF (Norway)
BIKY Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival
Buster International Children’s Festival 2023
Chicago International Children´s Film Festival
Children’s Animation and Cinema Week (SACI)
Kinds Kino International Film Festival 2023
Kyoto International Children´s Film Festival 2023
Universal Kids Film Festival Izmir 2023
Seoul Int’l Children’s Film Festival SICFF
Sarajevo International Film Festival 2023
Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival 2023

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