A Film by Özcan Alper
A Spring in Imroz
Two wounded souls, one quiet island, and the slow rediscovery of hope.
Romantic Drama
Gökçeada, Türkiye
September 2027
Meryem Uzerli · Halit Ergenç
Two wounded souls, one quiet island, and the slow rediscovery of hope.
Arif (52), a writer suffering a long spell of writer's block, arrives on Gökçeada for a month under pressure from his editor, as part of the municipality's writer-in-residence programme. There his path crosses with Sonya (41), a solitary woman who lost her husband and son three years earlier. Caught between the inadequacy of words and the silence of grief, the two wounded souls begin to discover healing in each other's quiet presence — and the possibility of falling in love again.
When a storm makes Arif's writing house uninhabitable, he is relocated to Odeon Pension, the gardened stone house Sonya has run alone since the accident. Shared coffees, work in the garden and the island's archaic rhythm slowly dissolve the distance between them — even as the limited time Arif has left on Gökçeada casts a shadow over what is growing between them.
Born in Artvin in 1975, Alper studied Physics and the History of Science at Istanbul University before directing his 2008 debut feature Autumn (Sonbahar). His subsequent films — including Rüzgarın Hatıraları, Gelecek Uzun Sürer and Dark Night (Karanlık Gece) — have built a body of work centred on memory, loss and quiet emotional landscapes, screened widely on the international festival circuit.
Born in Artvin, Türkiye
Directorial debut, Sonbahar
Feature films directed
Original screenplays, writer-director
Debut FeatureSonbahar · 2008
Festival SelectionKaranlık Gece
Festival SelectionRüzgarın Hatıraları
Festival SelectionGelecek Uzun Sürer"A Spring in Imroz is a film about people learning to live with grief, and who — despite everything — seek healing through love once again. Rather than dialogue that explains the characters' emotions, gestures, repetitions and empty spaces become the storytellers. Gökçeada is not a backdrop; it is a living space of memory — a character in its own right."
— Özcan Alper, Director
Uzerli and Ergenç both carry the cultural weight of Turkish television's biggest global export — proof of the audience A Spring in Imroz can reach.
Muhteşem Yüzyıl became one of Turkey's largest television exports, broadcast in over 100 countries and localised into 40+ languages — the same star power behind that reach now anchors A Spring in Imroz.
Uzerli and Ergenç's cross-border recognition gives A Spring in Imroz a strategic 3x multiplier effect across two of the world's fastest-growing markets for Turkish content.
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