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See you in Cannes!

INVITATION
NISI MASA
Istanbul Express

1001 Days
Olivier Jourdain & Zeynep Köprülü
Belgium, Turkey – 2011 – 10’44”

More: http://www.semainedelacritique.com/EN/films/2011/2011_invit_nisimasa.php

These  8 films above you’ll find at the Critics’ Week Screening. All the 15 Istanbul Express films are available at the Cannes Short Film Corner.

the Turkish!

Some San Sebastian train participants appear in this film. Nude, of course.

Greetings from Rijeka, Croatia.

I have learned that once in your life, you may be asked to be the sound designer of a film about deaf people, and you can actually learn a lot about sound by that =) Thanks to my beautiful groupmates Lea and Iris to let me live the irony of my life… Or you can make a calm, easy going Scottish named Leo go crazy and say “oh god! stop complaining for one second” and learn that not complanining can actually make your life easier to enjoy so you wouldn’t need to complain anymore =)  And you realize that you can miss a Belgium guy named Olivier who annoys you insisting on the idea that every Turkish girl’s name should be Zeynep and the actual Zeynep laughing at your reaction everytime you get into this trap. Also I have learned that you can actually make the sweetest guy on planet, Rui, feel like an evil person because he gave you one single cigarette and you started smoking again =) Don’t worry Rui, I always had the intention anyway =) And FX… who proved me that you can never trust a French guy =p Flirt machine of the train, part time ladies man full time friend… Alastair, my companion in the battle against bed bugs, who thought me how to stay calm against them; Marcin, who never left me alone on the dance floor with his never ending energy; May, going away with her team and coming back to us all the time giving me the first signals of that I am gonna miss these guys too much after the trip ended; Bela… “oh yeah, now we’re talking”  =)) and Boris, with his witty smile, taught me that I should never answer a question starting with “who’s the youngest of the group” unless I want to carry some rubbish bags or do some other stuff =))

Rakija

And before i finish this long long post, I would like to thank some hidden participants of this trip. Rakija, for giving us all the magic we needed to make this trip even better and our little friend Marshall, for providing the soundtrack of our lives for the whole trip.

Little Marshall

Miss you all and take care of yourselves till we see each other in another life…

Thanks to 2 other trains for the great films by the way!!! It was enjoyable to see that you also had a magical experience as we did…

It’s something extra we made on the way. I want to share this half-documentary film especially with all my fellow producers and coordinators in all the 3 trains.

(this is 10 minutes). It’s better not to explain anything.

I miss you all. But I’ll get back to you with some post-prod/distribution stuff anyway. Hello from Helsinki.

A litte gift to shura marchenko, from the tallinn train with love !

“L’absence diminue les médiocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.”(“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”) La Rochefoucault, Maximes.

“Je me révolte donc nous sommes”, (“With rebellion, awareness is born.”) Albert Camus and obviously…

“Il n´y a pas d´amour, il n´y a que des preuves d´amour. “(“There is no such thing as love, only proof of love”.) Jean Cocteau…

I hope to meet you guys soon again… Well, who knows ?

I miss you all.