New Talent
Feature Film
Drama

Kuma

Fatma lives in Vienna with her family, and they maintain the traditions of their old homeland, Turkey. When the young Turkish woman Ayse marries into the family, the two women develop a friendship based on deep trust. “Kuma” is the story of this relationship, and of the rift that develops between them when Ayse oversteps the limits Fatma has laid down.

Data

Genre: Drama
Category: New Talent, Feature Film
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: 35 mm, 93 Min
Release: 27.04.2012
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 7.531
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Vienna, Anatolia
Shooting time: Summer 2011
Completion: Spring 2012
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: Wega-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer: Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz
Director: Umut Dağ
Script: Umut Dağ, Petra Ladinigg
DOP: Carsten Thiele
Editor: Claudia Linzer
Sound engineer: Sergey Martynyuk
Costume design: Cinzia Cioffi
Set design: Katrin Huber
Cast: Nihal Koldaş (Fatma), Begüm Akkaya (Ayse), Vedat Erincin (Mustafa), Murathan Muslu (Hasan)
Production manager: Ulrike Lässer
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)