Aslihan Unaldi
About
Aslihan Unaldi is a screenwriter and director based in Brooklyn. She grew up in her beloved Istanbul, which she left at 18 to move to another magical city, New York.
Aslihan’s award-winning provocative short RAZAN premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2006 and her documentary OVERDRIVE at the Istanbul Film Festival in 2011. In 2015 she spent several months on the Syrian-Turkish border filming Syrian freedom fighters. The resulting video installation Bordersongs was exhibited at the Angewandte in Vienna. Recently, Aslihan was a writer on Mete Gumurhan’s YOUNG WRESTLERS, which won a special mention at the Berlinale in 2016, and Crystal Moselle’s SKATE KITCHEN, which premiered at Sundance in 2018.
Aslihan holds an MFA in film from NYU’s Tisch, and a BA in photography from Yale University. Her work has been supported by the Berlinale, the Sloan Foundation, New York Women in Film and Television, Netflix, Film Independent, Topic and others.
Afloat
Before he is thrown in prison for exposing government corruption in his latest book, Turkish journalist Yusuf convinces his ex-wife and adult daughters to reunite for a sailing trip on the Aegean coast. As soon as they leave the marina, tensions rise, old resentments surface and new secrets are revealed.