Florence November 30th – December 7th 2013

International documentary film festival

  • ASÊ
    Asê

    Turkey 2013 32'
    Directed by: Ercan Orhan
    The pain of an elderly Kurdish woman forced to live far from her village after the death of her son and husband. A pain expressed in the stories and the memories, while working in the fields and talking to nature. A small and touching portrait of a simple and strong woman, able to keep alive the memory, because you feel defeated not by the death but by the oblivion.

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    2013 Saturday, December 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 5:00 pm

  • BIR FINCAN TÜRK KAHVESI
    One Cup of Turkish Coffee

    Turkey, France 2013 9'
    Directed by: Nazli Eda Noyan, Daghan Celayir
    In this animated documentary, an old woman and her granddaughter sit around a table drinking a cup of Turkish Coffee and go through old family photographs. Although this old woman, at first, tries to resist looking at these pictures, she cannot resist what the past evokes.

    2013 Saturday, December 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 5:00 pm

  • MON PÈRE, LA RÉVOLUTION ET MOI
    My Father, the Revolution and Me

    Turkey, Switzerland 2013 80'
    Directed by: Ufuk Emiroglu
    Ufuk is the daughter of a Turkish couple of activists for the Communist Party in the Seventies. After migrating in Switzerland, the family falls apart. The director faces a crisis that leads her to travel around the world searching for her identity.

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    2013 Thursday, December 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 8:45 pm

  • UCUBE
    The Freak

    Turkey 2013 20'
    Directed by: Erol Mintaş, Taylan Mintaş
    Statue of Humanity is a statue, made with reinforced concrete, demolished by the Turkish authorities before it was finished. It was blamed for portraying two huge figures in the process of exchanging a handshake on top of a hill on the border between Turkey and Armenia. Or maybe it’s Art that can never subordinate itself to politics.

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    2013 Saturday, December 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 5:00 pm

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