Based Istanbul Talks with Tuba Büyüküstün

When do you realize that summer has arrived?

Is it when the music gets louder? Or when you hop in a car with your friends and hit the road for a long-distance drive? When you start collecting moments where troubles mix with laughter around rakı tables? Or maybe during the hours chasing one another under the sun that dries your salty hair? Being one or being together… Which one feels closer to you? 

Another Self is a work filled with equations that turn all the improbabilities into possibilities throughout the journey of three different women who hit the road to search for a way out of their disrupted lives. And here we have Tuba Büyüküstün, bringing Ada into reality with all her purity, a character who is responsible for rediscovering herself and uncovering her unexplored facets in the midst of all this chaos! Tuba’s first encounter with Ada is very familiar, though equally new and exciting. “In some ways the character Ada was very similar to me, and in other ways, she’s nothing like me at all. She touched a part of a past version of Tuba instead of the Tuba at the moment I met the Ada character,” she says. The story of Tuba and Ada reflects all the flaws in their seemingly perfect lives through our shared human emotions, and brings the feeling of being seen to the surface. “What is the common concern of all beings in this life? To be seen… We all want to be seen. We want our emotions to be seen, our bodies to be seen, and even our willingness to be invisible to be seen. We want to be heard and understood.” On the other hand, there are some roles that are programmed into us. The emotions that guide us to become an ideal and righteous individual from the moment we’re born, the idealized actions that promise a good life. But how do we overcome the memories embedded in our DNA and the emptiness we cannot escape from? Another Self helps you find new answers to these questions every time you watch, and it touches somewhere deep within with the most familiar emotions. It portrays a real world where, through friendship, family, building your own family, or the friends who become family, you can experience summer in every season.

Talent Tûba Büyüküstün

Creative Direction by Duygu Bengi

Directed by Abdullah Yazıc

DOP Adem Ustaoğlu

Fashiıon Editor Murat Şentürk

Hair by İbrahim Zengin

Make Up by Hakan Kültür

Art Direction by Yeşim Yeşilçimen

Creative Production by BI Creative

Creative Team Belgin Demirhan, Seher Tosun, Şevval Küçüktır, Tunga Yankı Tan

Gaffer Okan Ataş

Director Assistant The Post Brothers

Sound Design Salih Alkan

Fashion Team Birce Naz Köş, Efe Batur, Zehra Gülce Çetin

Camera Assitants Fatih Duman, Ahmet Toğrul

Make Up Assistant Duygu Baske

Hair Assistant Merve Rüzgar

Gaffer Assistants Arda Seyrek, Anıl Sever, Ali Şimşek