Making Film
Interview with Director
Trailer
Short Film "Koza (Cocoon)"

Mahmut, a 40 year old independent photographer, is a "village boy made
good" at least professionally in the big city - Istanbul in this case. After his
wife leaves him, he falls into an existential crisis. Then comes his cousin
Yusuf, who left his native village after a local factory closed down, effectively
unemploying over half the local men. He looks to Istanbul for salvation: a job
on board a ship sailing abroad, at once exciting and crucial to supporting his
family in the desperately poor village. The distance between the two men is
apparent at once, and becomes increasingly pronounced. Whereas Mahmut
is adusted to big city life and suffers from many of its neuroses, Yusuf is a
lonely, excentric country worker with annoying nervous and hygienic habits,
and a sick mother back home he must somehow support. This intimate
drama was filmed in the director's apartment in Istanbul, using all his
furniture, appliances, rooms, car and so on as the film's props. The actor
playing Yusuf is actually the director's real-life cousin, and the actor playing
Mahmut is an actual friend, a non-professional actor.