The film You Know Him, a Turkish-Serbian production, won three awards at the 39th Istanbul Film Festival. Ercan Kesal’s film won the following awards: Award for Best Director, Award for Best Editing and the FIPRESCI Award of the International Association of Film Critics.
The film had its world premiere at the end of January 2020 at the 49th Rotterdam International Film Festival, and it was also shown in the program of the Shanghai Film Festival. Eleven feature films competed in the national selection of the Istanbul Film Festival.
The film was written, produced and stars Ercan Kesal. Kesal started working as an actor and screenwriter in the films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (“Far”, “Three Monkeys” – Award for Best Director in Cannes, “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” – Grand Jury Prize in Cannes). Ercan Kesal is also the screenwriter of the film Announcement (2018), directed by Mahmut Fazil Coskun, which has won the Special Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival. You Know Him is Kesal’s directorial debut.
You Know Him was produced by Ay Yapim (Turkey), Poyraz Film (Turkey), Thalia Production (Serbia) and Living Pictures (Serbia). Co-producers from Serbia are Dušica Novaković, Stefan Orlandić and Dimče Stojanovski. The film is supported by Film Center Serbia.