Morning - Noon - Evening

a film by Efe Öztezdoğan

20 min - 2012 - Turkey / Greece

An ordinary day of a middle-class, urban family. A good husband and a careful father of a 12 years-old girl, Hüseyin, works as a private driver for a wealthy, bourgeois family. Though his peaceful nature, he embodies a potential of a harsh violence.
In Turkey, regarding the statistics, three women get killed every day — mostly by their husbands or closest relatives.

“Nowadays when a woman gets killed, it hasn’t any news value for a newspaper or TV channel until she is a victim of a horrific murder. Violence is a common part of our everyday life. Murders have become just statistic numbers…
What terrifies me most is not only the murders, but the reaction of the society. No one seems to care about it, as it is almost accepted as a part of the tradition.” Efe Öztezdoğan

Efe Öztezdoğan
Efe Öztezdoğan was born in Istanbul in 1980. He started his career in visual arts when he gets his first camera Nikon FM2 and builds a dark room in his house at the age of 14. His interest to filming besides photographing begins during his education in German High School and then he studied film making at Bilgi University. After school period he begins to work as a director in commercials. After working on it for four years he finished his first short film “subtItles” in 2007. “subtItles” was an experimental film, digging the consciousness of self-being. It entered more than fifty festivals across the world and won some awards. His second short film “morning-noon-evening” is about the commonness of violence in modern life and shot as a co-production of Turkey and Greece.

• Directed by: Efe Öztezdoğan
• Produced by: Efe Öztezdoğan - Meryem Yavuz - Cem Öztüfekçi