Directed by:
Reha ErdemScreenplay:
Reha ErdemCinematography:
Florent HerryComposer:
Orhan GencebayCast:
Elit İşcan, Erdal Beşikçioğlu, Önder K. Açikbas, Nebil Sayın, Banu Fotocan, Halim Ercan, Levend Yılmaz, Metin Yıldırım, Asil Büyüközçelik, Handan Karaadam (more)Plots(1)
A distilled blend of Erdem’s thematic and stylistic trademarks, My Only Sunshine is a dreamy film about harsh realities. One of the most beautiful odes to the Bosphorus, the work unfolds the tale of 14-year-old Hayat, a member of an old Istanbul family who lives with her fisherman-smuggler father and sick grandfather. Like its characters (or “figures”), the film maintains a stylistic distance while nurturing a mystery. In contrast, emotions sometimes burst through the arabesque soundtrack. Once the best friend of the new “immigrant villager to the big city” and, concurrently, a cultural danger in the eyes of the Turkish state, arabesque (Turkey’s Arab-influenced music genre) is the music of self-destruction, love, and rebellion against fate in a loveless world. Such is Hayat’s world, but with poetically edited images and sounds, and camerawork that dotes on the Bosphorus, My Only Sunshine is romantic enough in itself. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Elit İşcan
Turkey
Best movies:
Mustang (2015)
Sibel (2018)
Times and Winds (2006)
![Erdal Beşikçioğlu](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/472/160472543_a6f58d.jpg)
Erdal Beşikçioğlu
Turkey
Best movies:
Honey (2010)
In Bar (2007)
My Only Sunshine (2008)
Önder K. Açikbas
Germany
Best movies:
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Recep İvedik (2008)
My Only Sunshine (2008)
![Nebil Sayın](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/869/165869979_228b53.jpg)
Nebil Sayın
Best movies:
Insider (2016) (series)
My Only Sunshine (2008)
Singing Women (2013)
Banu Fotocan
Best movies:
My Only Sunshine (2008)
Sivas (2014)
Beyond the Hill (2012)
Halim Ercan
Turkey
Best movies:
My Only Sunshine (2008)
Levend Yılmaz
Turkey
Best movies:
My Only Sunshine (2008)
Metin Yıldırım
Turkey
Best movies:
My Daughter (2018) (series)
Aşk Laftan Anlamaz (2016) (series)
Twist of Fate (2021) (series)
Asil Büyüközçelik
Best movies:
Magnificent Century: Kosem (2015) (series)
My Only Sunshine (2008)
What's a Human Anyway? (2004)
Handan Karaadam
Best movies:
My Only Sunshine (2008)
Gizem Şimşek
Best movies:
My Only Sunshine (2008)