The Weary Hours of Two Labs Assistants

Iki Laborantin Yorgun Saatleri

  • Burak Çevik
  • 2026
  • Turkey, Germany, Croatia, United Kingdom
  • 22'
  • Turkish
    • Wed 25
    • March
    • 16h00
    • Arlequin 1
    • + débat/Q&A "The Weary Hour...", "Casting...."
In the same session: Local Sensations Casting for a film, Ihsan’s diary
  • © Burak Çevik, Fol Films
    © Burak Çevik, Fol Films
  • © Burak Çevik, Fol Films
    © Burak Çevik, Fol Films

Late at night, two lab assistants analyse an unknown substance. A coffee break turns into a fortune-telling session, shifting their gaze from science to intuition. They imagine a space where rational inquiry and foresight coexist.

Burak Çevik is a filmmaker based in Berlin and originally from Istanbul. His feature films The Pillar of Salt (2018), Belonging (2019), and Forms of Forgetting (2023) premiered at the Berlinale and have been screened at New Directors/New Films, FID Marseille, and Cinéma du Réel. His video work, A Topography of Memory (2019), was screened at the Locarno Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and New York Film Festival (NYFF). He is the founder of Fol Films, an Istanbul-based company that produces his own films as well as those of other filmmakers.

    • Wed 25
    • March
    • 16h00
    • Arlequin 1
    • + débat/Q&A "The Weary Hour...", "Casting...."
In the same session: Local Sensations Casting for a film, Ihsan’s diary
  • Subtitles : original version with French and English subtitles
  • Production companies : Fol Films, Maya Films, Nuri Cem Erbak, Vertigo Media, Robot 22
  • Photography : Gregory Oke
  • Sound : Ismail Alacan
  • Editing : Burak Çevik
  • Music : Zeynep Toraman

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