BülBül

Three jazz musicians from Berlin try their hand at busking on a summer trip through eastern Europe. As they make their way from Berlin to Istanbul, by way of Prague, Budapest, and Split, they play in places they encounter along their route – some of them pretty peculiar.

In “Bülbül”, an experimental film shot in black and white, Istanbul-born filmmaker Işıl Karataş ceaselessly pursues the nomadic performers, capturing their unusual routines and the bizarre situations they find themselves in. The energetic music played by the trio – a saxophonist, drummer, and electric guitar player – evolves in parallel with the strange settings in which they perform and the diverse audiences that listen to them, ranging from children to animals to dancing passersby to everlasting trees.