:: DETAILS

Written, directed and produced by Özay Fecht Woman Özay Fecht Young Man Baris Kilic Bartender Aykut Cömert Girlfriend Ipek Inli Friends Aliye Uslu, Can Yelen Director of Photography Eyüp Boz Focus puller Barbaros Engin First camera assistant Özkan Karaköse Gaffer Recep Bicer Best boy Murat Özlük Electricians Erol Dursun, Umut Bicer Grips Mehmet Güvercin, Bilal Berber, Anil Güvercin Sound Engineer Gramofon First Assistant Director Taner Gündöner Second Assistant Directors Deniz Celebi, Mehtap Köroglu Production Coordinator Tahir Alper Caglayan Location Manager Ali Özcelik Script Fatih Kilic Editor Saydelizade Stills Photographer Emre Eren Music For Cynthia (Connell), One for the Don (Pullen) from the album “Shakill’s II” David Murray (ts), Don Pullen (organ), Bill White (g), J.T.Lewis (dr) Columbia DIW 884 (1994); Disk Union (Bellaphon) Published by 3D Family Catalogue

:: PLOT

A lonely woman in a bar wants to be hugged by a young man, but she was too drunk to remember anything when she meets him again the next day.

:: BIOGRAPHY

Born in Istanbul, Özay Fecht has starred in over 60 TV and feature films mostly in Germany and in Turkey. She has spent most of her years in Berlin, but also in Paris, NewYork and Ibiza. A year ago she moved back to Istanbul where she teaches camera acting and stars in the TV series “Karayilan”. Özay Fecht received the German best actress award “Bundesfilmpreis” with her role in “40 m2 of Germany” by Tevfik Baser and the best supporting actress award of SIYAD ( Turkish film critics’ award) with her role in “The Blue Exile” by Erden Kiral. “The Touch” is her second short film as author, director and producer. Her first short film was “The Button”. She is going to make two or three more short films about the same subject of her other films, which is loneliness in big cities. Özay Fecht is also a well known jazz singer.

:: FILMOGRAPHY

The Button 1999 (short film) The Touch 2008 (short film