Memories of the Wind Drama – 2015 ABOUT DIRECTOR – Özcan Alper SYNOPSIS Addresses the issues of ethnicity and belonging and conveys how it feels to be across the borders, not only in terms of dislocating out of the borders of a country but also in terms of struggling to exist at the margins of…
Saroyanland Docu/Drama – 2013 ABOUT DIRECTOR – Özcan Alper SYNOPSIS The author William Saroyan, the child of an exiled Armenian family, was born in the United States in 1908. He always portrayed himself as an American and a Bitlis-tsi, an Armenian from the city of Bitlis in Turkey. In 1964 he made a long voyage…
Future Lasts Forever DRAMA/MUSIC – 2011 ABOUT DIRECTOR – Özcan Alper SYNOPSIS Sumru (28) is doing music research at a university in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an exhaustive collection of Anatolian elegies, she sets off for the southeast of the country for a few months. The brief trip turns…
Autumn Drama – 2008 ABOUT DIRECTOR – Özcan Alper SYNOPSIS Sentenced to jail in 1997 as a university student aged 22, Yusuf is released on health grounds 10 years later. He returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region, where he’s welcomed only by his sick and elderly mother. It turns out that…
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