PROGRAM 4

SWEET HOME ADANA, 2024
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 21’ | Turkish, Armenian
Director: Nagehan Uskan
From Adana to the archives of Nantes, this personal documentary explores lost roots, denial, and forgetting through the story of Marie, an Armenian woman who was forcibly converted to Islam.

STAR ON THE BORDER (STÊRKA LI SER XETÊ), 2024
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 19’ | Turkish, Kurdish
Director: Bêrîvan Saruhan
This documentary focuses on the village of Dirbesiyê in Mardin, which experienced a military intervention in 1993. The window bars with star motifs on the homes of the villages were deemed political symbols. The documentary calls for the rethinking of a family's memory and belonging on the borderline.

THE CITY AND THE MESSIAH (ŞEHİR VE MESİH), 2024
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 20’ | Turkish
Directors: Aylin Kuryel, Raşel Meseri
Based on the 17th-century controversial Jewish rabbi Sabatay Sevi's birthplace in Agora, Izmir, this documentary sheds light on events erased from history and the multi-layered past of the region.

COLOR OF THE STONE (RENGÊ KEVİR), 2024
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 23’ | Turkish, Kurdish
Director: Tuğba Yaşar
Beginning with a family photo album, the film traces how the Kurdish villages in the southeast of Türkiye that were burned down in the 90s have been remembered and transformed in the collective memory passed down from generation to generation—at the intersection of personal and social memories.