Concrete Pillow

A book binding family in Istanbul has two sons named after the southwest and northeast winds: Lodos and Poyraz. While Lodos is working at a used bookstore in Chicago, an obsessive customer steals an old copy of Hamlet and points a gun at Lodos' face. This sends him back to the Bosphorus in Istanbul. One day Lodos' mother's cat called Hamlet kills Lodos' bird named Sherezade and the wind begins to blow stronger on the Bosphorus.

Cairo IFF 2007

To make this film has been an obsession of a lifetime for me; I don't know why but it always has. I have a great passion for Cinema and it is my window and guide to understand life itself, existence itself through so many questions: What are we? who are we? Where are we coming from and where are we going? What's truth and what's dream!

I question time, myself and the world around me through my memories of childhood in Istanbul, and through my memories in Chicago where I studied. I imagined the film as a classical jazz piece. Because I believe improvisation is the highest point of creativity.

Fatih Haciosmanoglu