PANDORA’S BOX

Director: Yesim Ustaoglu

Turkey/France/Germany/Belgium

Producers: Yesim Ustaoglu (Ustaoglu Productions), Behrooz Hashemian, Setareh Farsi (Silkroad Productions), Natacha Devillers (Les Petites Lumieres).

Shooting: Spring 2007, Istanbul, Trabzon.

Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, Global Initiative.

Released in 2009: Bodega Films France.

World Sales: Match Factory, www.the-match-factory.com.

Premiered in Toronto Int'l Film Festival. Best Film, San Sebastian Film Festival 2008, Pusan Film Festival, etc.

When three forty-something siblings in Istanbul receive a call one night that their aging mother has disappeared from her home in central Turkey, the three set out to find her, momentarily setting aside their differences, to do so.