Something Useful
Something Useful

Director: Pelin Esmer
Producer: Pelin Esmer
Screenplay: Pelin Esmer, Barış Bıçakçı
Year: 2017
Cinematographer: Gökhan Tiryaki
Music:
Cast: Başak Köklükaya, Öykü Karayel, Yiğit Özşener, Ozanay Alpkan
Color: Colorful
Production Company: Sinefilm, Mars Production
Country: Türkiye, France
Release date: 27.10.2017
Plot: The tension-filled journey of two women, whose paths cross on a train one night, towards a man who wants to die. Why would someone like Leyla go to a reunion dinner with her high school friends? He hasn't been to a high school dinner in twenty-five years... And on a 16-hour train ride! Canan, a senior nursing student, why is she on the train? While she dreams of becoming an actress, she goes to a job interview she never wanted as a nurse candidate. What about Yavuz? He lies motionless in front of a window, watching the street vendors, carriages and people on the street all day long. He is waiting for Canan, maybe Leyla, maybe the murderer and the poet whose paths crossed on a night train. (Taken from press release)

Notes about the movie:
In the film, which puts two women at the center of the story, female stereotypes are reversed through the two female characters' perspectives on life.

Contents related to the movie:
Something Useful: We Go Inside the Framework, Abbas Bozkurt, 2020.
https://altyazi.net/yazilar/elestiriler/ise-yarar-bir-sey-cercevenin-icine-giriyorum/
Anamorphotic View of the Female Characters and the Phenomenon of Death in the Movie Something Useful within the Framework of Feminist Film Theory. Özdemir, G. (2019). SineFilozofi, 4(Sp. Iss), 493-517.

Awards:
International Istanbul Film Festival (2017) “FIPRESCI Award” (Pelin Esmer)
Malatya International Film Festival (2017) “Best Actress” (Başak Köklükaya)
“Best Supporting Actress” (Öykü Karayel)
International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival (2017) “Best Screenplay” (Pelin Esmer) “Best Screenplay” (Barış Bıçakçı) “Best Actress” (Başak Köklükaya) “Best Cinematography” (Gökhan Tiryaki)

Source:
Özdemir, G. (2019). Anamorphotic View of the Female Characters and the Phenomenon of Death in the Movie Something Useful within the Framework of Feminist Film Theory. SineFilozofi, 4(Sp. Iss), 493-517.
https://pelinesmer.com