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ASÊ
AsêTurkey 2013 32'
2013 Saturday, December 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 5:00 pm
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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BIR FINCAN TÜRK KAHVESI
One Cup of Turkish CoffeeTurkey, France 2013 9'
2013 Saturday, December 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 5:00 pm
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. -
MON PÈRE, LA RÉVOLUTION ET MOI
My Father, the Revolution and MeTurkey, Switzerland 2013 80'
2013 Thursday, December 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 8:45 pm
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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UCUBE
The FreakTurkey 2013 20'
2013 Saturday, December 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 5:00 pm
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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