The Strange Story of a Shining Pearl

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In the flow of life, daily decisions and choices that we make create alternative universes where there might exist our duplicates who have been through different experiences. Is there any way to reach them? Can we reach through love and family ties? This short film is the story of two young sisters trying to reach a magical and shining pearl through the orders of their deceased grandmother, which will open a portal to parallel universes. Will the grandmother reunite with her dead husband again? Can she show her granddaughters that everything is fine? “The Strange Story of a Shining Pearl” is a fantasy-drama short film taking viewers across time, space, existence and reality.

Emir Mavitan

He was born in 1993 in Istanbul. He graduated from Yeditepe Radio, Cinema and TV after Eyüboğlu College. He started making short films during his secondary/high school years and continued at university. The film Re-Era, sponsored by Yeditepe University, took the first steps in science fiction and brought many awards and acclaim. Subsequently, he began working on long-feature films. When he was in his final year, he wrote, directed and produced the long-feature film called Göçebe, a co-production with TRT. Göçebe made its world premiere at the Montreal Fantasia International Film Festival and its Turkey premiere at Istanbul International Film Festival. This dystopic, fantasy-themed film was among the few examples of its genre in Turkey. After this, he established the production department of Oflaz Media and for a while he was in charge of the digital platform called Filbox Hemen. He founded Mug Production in 2012 and still continues to work as a director, script writer and producer for cinema, TV series and advertisements.