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Our Grand Despair is an adaptation of Ankara-based author Baris Bicakci’s novel. While the story might come across like a typical love triangle, Bicakci’s approach is quite unique and delicate which stands as the main source of inspiration for me. The feeling that dominates the story is a distinct blend of the melancholy of the past’s unrepeatable nature with sorrows of impossible love, and an affection that embraces all inadequacy and imperfection. For me, the main questions in this film are: „Are there any borders in relationships? If there are, where are they to be found?“ Although I can’t give definitive answers to these questions, I feel intuitively that they have the potential to provoke various answers, which I believe will enrich my film to a great extent. (Seyfi Teoman)