Noor

Noor

Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti

PK / FR
2012
Feature Film
79’
Panorama

Noor wants to be a man. He no longer belongs to the Khusras, Pakistan’s transgender community. And he is definitely done with the love affair that he had with one of them, a relationship that drastically changed his life. Now he is doing a man’s job at a truck decoration outifit. But after an argument with a drunk lorry-driver, Noor sets o on a journey across Pakistan and on the search for his own identity. His goal is a mystical mountain lake. To get there, though, he has to proceed with all the powers of resistance and self-assertion available to him. A queer road movie in Pakistan, at once freedom loving and poetic.

Director / Script

Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti

Cinematography

Jaques Ballard

Editing

Tristan Meunier, Michko Netchak

Sound

Alexandre Andrillon

Music

Abaje

Cast

Noor, Uzma Ali, Baba Muhammad, Gunga Saeen, Mithu Saeen

Production

C’est au 3/ C’est au quatre

Çağla Zencirci

Çağla Zencirci was born 1976 in Ankara.

Based in Paris, Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti work together as a director team.  They began their collaboration with a number of short films and documentaries which have taken them to the Middle East, Central Africa and other parts of Europe and been shown internationally on TV and at festivals. The duo first became known to a larger audience through Ata, a film that tells of an encounter between a young Turkish woman and a Uyghur refugee. It received over 20 festival awards. Six – a portrait of the legendary Chris Marker Tokyo Bar – was similarly successful, taking part in the competition at Locarno and elsewhere. Noor is Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti’s first feature film.


Films by Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti 
Ningen 2013 | Camera Obscura 2012 | Six 2009 | Ata 2008 | Shanty Garden Town 2007 | Carnegami 2006 | Retrouver Bam 2005 | Une route de la soie 2004

Guillaume Giovanetti

Guillaume Giovanetti was born 1978 in Lyon.

Based in Paris, Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti work together as a director team.  They began their collaboration with a number of short films and documentaries which have taken them to the Middle East, Central Africa and other parts of Europe and been shown internationally on TV and at festivals. The duo first became known to a larger audience through Ata, a film that tells of an encounter between a young Turkish woman and a Uyghur refugee. It received over 20 festival awards. Six – a portrait of the legendary Chris Marker Tokyo Bar – was similarly successful, taking part in the competition at Locarno and elsewhere. Noor is Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti’s first feature film.


Films by Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti
Ningen 2013 | Camera Obscura 2012 | Six 2009 | Ata 2008 | Shanty Garden Town 2007 | Carnegami 2006 | Retrouver Bam 2005 | Une route de la soie 2004