The Spider’s Web

by Hüseyin Aydin Gürsoy

17 minutes - Drama - France / Belgium

Hakan is a young Turk who works as a construction painter in France with his father Mustafa. When his future is read out to him in coffee grounds, he decides to make some difficult decisions. Mustafa will have to face the choices of his son for the first time.

HÜSEYIN AYDIN GÜRSOY
Hüseyin was born in Turkey in 1988 and has been living in France since he was 3. He grew up with this double culture and remained very attached to his country of origin. He started taking theatre classes at age 7 and headed towards cinema and filmmaking in the course of his years of training. After having directed a couple a couple of home short movies, he co-created the production company Quadrangle Productions with 3 friends in 2011 and auto-produced his first short film "La Quatorzième" and the second one, "8 Months", which was shot in his Turkish home village with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture. He produced his third short film "The Spider Web" with Origine Films and is still developing his film projects, such as the writing of his first feature film.

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

Clap d’or at Clap 89 in Sens (France)
Special Mention Award at Boston Turkish Festival (USA)
Festival Le Court en dit Long 2015 (France)
Festival Ecran Libre d’Aigues-Mortes 2015 (France)
Kinofest Romania (out of competition, world panorama)
Ifva Asian New Force Category Finalist (Hong Kong)
Rendez-vous avec le cinéma turc à Paris
Boğaziçi Film Festival, Istanbul - in competition
Le temps presse short film festival - in competition (France)
IFVA awards Hong Kong - in competition
Golden sun short film festival in Malta - in competition
Cluj shorts (Romania) - in competition
Eskişehir shortfest (Turkey) - in competition
DEA open air international film festival (Albania)
Chacun son court (France) - out of competition
Festival de curtmetrages de Manlleu (Spain) - in competition
Aaretaler Kurzfilmfestival (Switzerland) - out of competition
Festival Eurydice (France) - in competition
One Country One Film (France) - in competition
Festival de FICMA de Salamanca (Spain) - in competition