Genre
Comedy

Release Date
11.3.2010

Length
102 Min

Producer
Ebru Yalçın �Sermiyan Midyat

Director
Sermiyan Midyat

Art Director
Ercan Özkan �Kamil Çetin

Screenplay
Sermiyan Midyat

Synopsis
For almost 30 years, Tinne's governor / landlord Yusuf Aga has been writing letters of applications to the State institutions in order to be recognized, with the main objective of achieving a legal identification. This is why he has worked hard for having Ibrahim, his son, to study and achieve a position to save the village. Ibrahim, taken under Priest Hanna's legal parentage in order to have a legal identification, has returned back home after completing his studies and military service. But he has a surprise for everybody; he wants to get married to Jessica who lives in Colorado, US.
There starts the evolving of the film, with funny controversies on cultural conflicts as well as global politic circumstances surrounding them.
Questions are, would Kurdish Ibrahim and American Jessica find a common land for their love? Could "non-existing" Tinne be a love-land for them? Is love strong enough to make American and Middle East people, who almost hate each other after September 11th, come and live together friendly?


Cast
SERMİYAN MİDYAT (İbrahim), KATHIE GILL (Jessica), STEVE GUTTENBERG (Christopher), MARIEL HEMINGWAY (Pamela), MERAY ÜLGEN (Yusuf), AYSENİL ŞAMLIOĞLU (Xate ), FADİK SEVİN ATASOY (Zişan), JOSH FOLAN (Danny), AYÇA DAMGACI (Fehime), ERDOĞAN TUNCEL (Ubeyd), CENGİZ BOZKURT (Saido), SENER KÖKKAYA (Behçet), NAZLI TOSUNOĞLU (Gule), NİHAL MENZİL (Rukiye), MUHAMMED CANGÖREN (Papaz Hanna), HALİL İBRAHİM BABUR (Faruk), BAHAR UN (Sultan), SİNAN DAĞ (Aliko) and the people of Midyat.

About The Movie
In the South East region of Turkey, historically belonging to Mesopotamia land with its Kurdish, Armenian and Assyrian populations next to Turkish, lies villages with no legal existence, therefore with no motorways, hospitals, schools. Those people unfortunately haven't got legal identifications due to many political, social and personal reasons.

'I LOVE YOU' to be introduced to the European cinema audiences on 11th March 2010 is telling a story based on such a village, namely Tinne. Tinne is a Kurdish word meaning 'absent / not existing'. Inspired by the tragic fact that population of Tinne doesn't exist officially, Sermiyan Midyat is telling a tragicomic story in his debut film which is enriched by the accompany of several Hollywood actors and actresses.

Approaching the cultural conflicts in a quite sharp and humorous style and based on the love of Mardin's Ibrahim and Colorado's Jessica, 'I LOVE YOU' promises its audiences an extraordinary two hours with laughters. Sermiyan Midyat, by directing, writing the script as well as taking the leading role, is the major name behind this movie. He is accompanied by a bunch of surprising actors and actresses, like Steve Guttenberg, Mariel Hemingway, Kathie Gill and Josh Folan, next to successful Turkish cast consisting of Ayça Damgacı, Meray Ülgen, Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu and Fadik Sevin Atasoy.