Indian and Germany-based Bombay Berlin Movie Productions (BBFP) is celebrating 15 years of worldwide storytelling and setting its sights on international enlargement, following the completion of principal images on its first Turkish-language function, “Thursday Night time Is Too Darkish,” it was revealed on the Cannes Movie Market.
The movie, the directorial debut of Onur Sefer, is co-produced with Istanbul-based Praksis Leisure and marks BBFP’s fifth fiction function. Set over one night time in Istanbul, the mission is described as “a haunting, introspective have a look at the emotional toll of contemporary masculinity.”
“Thursday Night time Is Too Darkish” was developed with assist from the German-Turkish Co-Manufacturing Improvement Fund, together with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Turkey’s Istanbul Worldwide Movie Competition (IIFF) — Conferences on the Bridge (MoB), an initiative mandated by the Turkish Ministry of Tradition.
Director Sefer known as the movie “a deeply private exploration of male vulnerability in a society that usually calls for the alternative,” including, “I’m grateful to BBFP and Praksis for trusting a first-time director with such thematic depth.”
Katharina Suckale, co-founder of BBFP, mentioned: “This mission represents every little thing we stand for — cross-cultural trade, daring new voices, and emotional fact. Onur brings a contemporary and fearless voice from the area.”
BBFP has constructed its status on internationally acclaimed productions together with “Loev” (Tallinn Black Nights, SXSW, BFI Flare), “Trijya” (Shanghai, Tallinn) and “The Highway to Mandalay” (Venice, TIFF, Tokyo). Now, the corporate is planning vital enlargement in each scope and attain.
“We have now by no means been in a rush. This is likely one of the basic causes we have now sustained and thrived,” mentioned Arfi Laamba, actor-producer and co-founder of BBFP. “In our subsequent chapter, BBFP isn’t just scaling — we’re remodeling. Our slate has expanded to business and style cinema, and we’re in search of companions who align with that ambition. We’re deliberately and mindfully evolving right into a studio grounded in creativity, collaboration, and business success.”
As a part of its strategic development, BBFP is about to start service manufacturing on a German function movie produced by Neopol Movie in India. The mission will entry Indian state and central manufacturing rebates and profit from BBFP’s seasoned native manufacturing infrastructure.
“We’ve discovered the proper residence for our manufacturing in India with Bombay Berlin,” mentioned Tonio Kellner, producer at Neopol Movie. “Their group is creatively aligned and logistically sharp. We hope that is only the start of many collaborations.”
“Thursday Night time Is Too Darkish” is presently in post-production and being ready for a world competition run.
