Turkish pandemic thriller QUARANTINE-19 sweeps in to Santa Monica
31th October 2021, Los Angeles – QUARANTINE-19, also known as CORONTINA-19, will have its market premiere during the upcoming American Film Market of Santa Monica.
Directed by Turkish Can Sarcan, QUARANTINE-19 is a chilling thriller set in the time of the Pandemic. An incident occurring on a tv show drives a group of reality show contestants to break out of the tv studio where they have been isolated. Once free, they enter a very new reality dominated by a lethal virus and will have to quickly adapt to the strict laws of that new world where double-speak is the norm and no-one is to be trusted.
Scheduled to be released in the cinemas in Turkey at the end of 2021, QUARANTINE-19 has been produced by Bilal Kalyoncu for 2506 Cinema and it stars between the others Ayse Akin, Özüm Çakir and Melih Degirmenci. EuroObscura will handle international sales during the AFM.
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QUARANTINE-19
Turkey – 2021 – 98 min. – Thriller – English
Eight people from all over the world participate in a reality tv show. Hoping to win at the $1 million prize, the contestants completely break their ties with the outside world and enter a house full of cameras. Strange events happen and the contestants are forced to leave the house. But when they return to real life, the contestants face a completely different world than the one they left.