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 ADANA - PARIS
Director:
Ahmet Soner Turkey 1994 / 74m
Turkish with no subtitles.
In this
documentary Ahmet Soner looks at the life of his former
colleague, Yilmaz Guney. It starts from his birthplace, Adana,
and ends in Paris.
 GOOD KURDS BAD KURDS
Director:
Kevin McKiernan USA 2000 / 78m / in English.
This
documentary focuses on the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds in
Turkey, one of the great human rights disasters of the 20th
century, and one that receives virtually no attention. The
film combines exclusive, one-of-a-kind war zone footage with
the human interest story of an immigrant Kurdish family trying
to find its way in Santa Barbara, California. The family
includes an elderly mother, three sisters and five brothers.
Two of the sisters still live in Turkey but far from their
original village, which was destroyed by the army.
REFUSAL 1111
Director:
Cüneyt Sekerci and Hasan Çimen Turkey 2001/ 22m
Turkish
with no subtitles.
A
documentary about conscientious objectors to conscription to
the Turkish army.
 SILENT DEATH
Director:
Hüseyin Karabey Turkey 2001 / 85m
German, Italian and
Spanish with English subtitles.
There are
approximately 71,000 prisoners in Turkish prisons today. Among
these, more than 10,000 are political prisoners. The Turkish
Ministry of Justice has recently constructed F-type prisons -
known as isolation cell system - in three locations. This
documentary film aims to discuss and display European policies
regarding prisons. Through different interviews made with
political detainees and former prisoners in Germany, Italy,
Spain, and the USA, the film tries to show that the European
prison system and the isolation cell system all around the
world is not the ideal as propagated by the Turkish
authorities.
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