Saturday 16th may and sunday 17th may 2015 Aysenur, Buse,
Elif and I went to see a film festival about documentaries movies called “8.egebelgesel film gunleri” in the french culture centre.
On Saturday we saw three movies: return to Homs by Talal Derki, Otekikasaba by Nefin Dinç and the last one, Salvador Allende by Patricio Guzman.
As the previous two were in turkish I just have a unclear idea
of what they talked about, but I understood a little the second one, a documentary on the
natives of a Greek and Turkish town. The two nations have been enemies many times
ago and the filmmakers visited the city to ask to people their feelings about
their nationality and the perceptions and the prejudices of each other.
Salvador Allende movie was in spanish and it was very interesting for me due to my studies, I have
always been fascinated about South American history and novelists and mostly by Salvador
Allende’s daughter, Isabel, that is one of my favourite writer. Salvador
Allende, the former president of Chile, was the first Marxist to be
democratically elected the president of a Latin American country.
The country was in a severe economic crises when Allende came
to power. Socio-economic problems like unemployment, inflation and
malnourishment were rampant in the country at that time. As president, he tried
to build a socialist society by bringing about nationalization of industries
and by adopting a policy of collectivism. However his enthusiasm for
socialism strained his relations with business houses and many other
politicians. In spite of having the support of the farmers and the common man, his
government was overthrown by Pinochet that will dictate tyranny.
On Sunday we saw together a short documentary called Depo: Akil hastanesinde hayat by Can
Dinlenmis.
It talked about life in mental hospitals. This documentary
focused on the mental health system and state regulated institutions in Turkey.
I do not know if the rules about this kind of building are the same than in
Italy but watching the movie it looked
like very similar and remind me about how life is hard for this people.
In the afteroon I saw a movie
that had english and turkish subtitles: The
Beekeeper by Mano Khalil.
It was a very touching story and made me the curiosity to
know much more better about situation between turkish and kurdish people.
The Beekeeper relates the life of Ibrahim Gezer, a Kurdish
beekeeper from Turkey, and his unusual experience of integration into
Switzerland. The long conflict between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdish
guerrilla movement robbed Gezer of everything that he had: his wife, two of his
children, his country, and his bee colonies. He discovers a new life in
Switzerland and after burocracy problems he can finally be retired.
Buse
is the most motivated in this kind of
activities as she really likes cinema
and she spoke me that would like to study cinematography after finishing the
school.
I think these movies gave them a different perception about
the country in which they live as mostly of documentaries showed different
realities. I asked girls if they know about history of Chile and the dictatorship of Pinochet and they just answered me that maybe they heard about it but did not know exactly the history. For me it is very important to share this kind of information with them because I do not know what kind of studies they do in school and if they have basic infos about the history of different countries.
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