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Melis Balcı & Ege Okal Merkür (Mercury), cel animation, 5'22", 2015
A young artist who works as a gallery assistant is taken to a luxury dinner with her boss, the gallery owner, after an international art fair. An art collector, a curator and an institution director join the table where she is introduced to the absurd and corrupt hierarchy of the art world. She observes the table all night and tries to take part in the conversation, but is not acknowledged. In every attempt to communicate with the important figures of the art world, she is disappointed.

CREDITS
Directors: Melis Balcı & Ege Okal
Screenwriters: Melis Balcı & Ege Okal
Animation: Melis Balcı & Ege Okal
Sound: Uğur Akagündüz
Coloring: Berke Doğanoğlu, İrem Nalça
Coloring Assistants: Umut Balcı, Zeynep Hazal Özuslu, Arda Albulak
Voice Actors: Alexander Christie-Miller, Ekmel Ertan, Ege Okal, Lara Ögel, Damla Pehlevan
Music: Hilmi Bey
Sound Production: Mono Crew

AWARDS
Audience Award - Stockholm Experimental and Animation Film Festival, 2016, Sweden
2nd place, Animation - Kayseri Altın Çınar Film Festival, 2016, Turkey
Winner, Animation - 36th Ifsak Film Festival, 2016, Turkey
Winner, Animation - Feelfest, 2016, Spain

FESTIVALS
Festival on Wheels, Berlinale 2016, Turkish Booth, Germany
Official Selection !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival, 2016, Turkey
Official Selection Akbank International Short Film Festival, 2016, Turkey
Official Selection IKSV 35th Istanbul Film Festival, 2016, Turkey
Official Selection Athens Animation Festival, 2016, Greece
Official Selection Stockholm Experimental and Animation Film Festival, 2016, Sweden
Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival, Kino Roulette, 2016, Germany
4th Canlandıranlar Festival, 2016, Turkey
Official Selection Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films, 2016, Czech Republic
Official Selection 19th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, 2016, Turkey
Official Selection Eskişehir International Film Festival, 2016, Turkey
Official Selection Golden Kuker-Sofia International Animation Festival, 2016, Bulgaria
Official Selection Kayseri Altin Cinar Film Festival, 2016, Turkey
Cannes Short Film Corner, 2016, France
Festival on Wheels, Cannes 2016, Turkish Booth, France
Official Selection 10th River Film Festival, 2016, Italy
Official Selection 36th Ifsak Film Festival, 2016, Turkey
Melbourne International Animation Festival, 2016, Panorama, Australia
Official Selection Anibar Animation Festival, 2016, Kosovo
Official Selection Shorts Mexico Film Festival, 2016, Mexico
Official Selection Helsinki International Film Festival, 2016, Finland
KROK International Animated Film Festival, 2016, Russia
59th DOK Leipzig, Country Focus Turkey, 2016, Germany
Cartoons Underground, 2016, Singapore
Official Selection Feelfest, 2016, Spain
Official Selection CutOutFest, 2016, Mexico
Bronx World Film, Cycle, 2016, United States
Tricky Women Festival, Work Affairs, 2017, Austria