Director: Mehmet Yazıgan
Turkey, 2019, 6’
Kurdish with Turkish and English subtitles
With the end of the "Peace Process" in 2015, I witnessed the clash between the PKK and the Government forces in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. I was a freelance journalist at that time, witnessing this terrible event caused me trauma. Years later, I turned these images in my archive into a documentary. I prepared this documentary by thinking about the witness, migration and city memory. After these images, the Sur district was destroyed, now absurd houses are being built, instead of the destroyed houses.
Having penetrated the Balkans in the fourteenth century, conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth, and reached the gates of Vienna in the sixteenth, the Ottoman Empire long struck fear into European hearts.
The New Year is more than just a date change on the calendar. It often marks a turning point where the weight of past experiences is felt or the uncertainty of the future is faced. This season, Pera Film highlights films that delve into themes of hope, regret, nostalgia, and new beginnings.
In 1493, exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was finishing the preparations for casting the equestrian monument (4 times life size), which Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan commissioned in memory of his father some 12 years earlier.
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