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MAKINA

FILM / 03
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Official poster for Makina
MAKINA / A FILM BY Onur Erdurak

01 / SYNOPSIS

Imagination becomes an act of defiance.

A world built on compliance.

In a subterranean metropolis where imagination is criminalized as pathology, a dutiful conformist navigates the monochrome efficiency of societal machinery. His carefully constructed reality fractures upon encountering a young girl—her defiance manifested in furtive acts of creation the authorities have yet to extinguish. As flickers of long-suppressed creativity resurface within him, what begins as quiet curiosity evolves into dangerous awakening. Each clandestine brush with expression pulls him further from sanctioned reality, setting him on a collision course with the system that shaped him. His rebellion—intimate, internal, inevitable—unfolds with the quiet devastation of ice breaking. When the regime’s mechanisms finally engage to correct his deviation, the consequences illuminate the true nature of compliance in a world built on collective delusion. A meditative exploration of consciousness under constraint, where salvation and annihilation become indistinguishable at the boundaries of controlled thought.

02 / CREDITS

Directed by
Onur Erdurak
With
Kennedd Taylor, Danielle Aldrich, Jordan Rockwell, Karosh Parsapour, Melis Caner
DoP
Mark Bei Chen
1st AD
Simone Thomas-Rowe, Kat Gaylord
1st AC
Jessica Ebert, Rishabh Singvi
Co-Produced by
Melis Caner, Matteo Leva, Emily Luders, Cem Tekin
Distribution
Exosolar Films

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