Iguana Tokyo
Japan, Turkey
2022, Color, Turkish, Japanese; Turkish captioned, English subtitled, 82 dk
2023 İstanbul Film Festivali; Best Art Director 2022 Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali; Best Art Director
Director: Kaan Müjdeci
Screenplay: Kaan Müjdeci
Cinematography: Mate Herbai
Editing: Doruk Kaya, Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Music: Kazuya Nagaya, Sound Walk Collective
Producer: Kaan Müjdeci, Ryohei Tsutsui
Production: Kaan Film, Asteros Sinema A.Ş.
Cast: Saadet Aksoy, Ertan Saban, Deniz Ülkü
Synopsis
The story of a family who installs a computer game in their small flat in Tokyo. Every corner of the city, every layer of society is under the spell of this virtual reality game: M². The game has a simple rule: the one who wins, leads the house and accordingly each one’s own room enlarges or shrinks via moving walls. What happens, when an ordinary family in one of the most advanced cities in the world starts living in two different worlds? What happens, when that fine line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, when a computer game controls the space you live in, re-defines your real life?
Kaan Müjdeci
Berlin-based director premiered his first feature film "Sivas" at the 71st Venice Film Festival in the main competition and was awarded with the Special Jury Prize. The film was Turkey's official nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. His first exhibition "Iguana Tokyo Prologue" opened at Tokyo Art and Space in 2017. In 2021, he wrote and directed a 7-part series called "Hamlet". His second feature film "Iguana Tokyo" was selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation L'Atelier at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
- Vision Date 25 October 2023 Wednesday
- Film Type Drama, Science Fiction
- Duration 82 minutes
