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AFTER
Director: Metin Yegin
Turkey 2001 / 24m / Turkish with
English subtitles
About the longest hunger strike against F-type prisons in
Turkey. To date, 74 people have died and hundreds of prisoners
have become disabled as a result of contracting
Wernico-Korsikoff disease.
CULTURAL IMAGE
Director: Yilmaz Demir
Britain 2002 / 5m / Kurdish with
English subtitles
A look at the life of the Kurdish community in
Hackney.
 F
Director: Metin Yegin
Turkey 2001 / 64m / Turkish with
English subtitles
The experiences of prisoners who survived the 19th December
2000 operation by the Turkish Security forces during the
hunger strike against F-type prisons.
 THE GAME
Director: Serhan Sahin & Burcu Sahinyavuz
Turkey
2002 / 26m / Kurdish and Turkish with English subtitles
The life stories of two young men who lost their lives on
opposite sides of the same conflict are told by their
grief-stricken mothers through the computer game Counter
Strike.
 KURDISTAN: OFF THE
MAP
Director: Antonis Kioukas
Greece 2002 / 19m / Greek with
English subtitles
This timely short documentary focuses on the plight of
Kurdish people in Iraq during the aftermath of the Gulf war.
It shows the brief euphoria felt by Kurds and how their hopes
of independence were dashed when US failed to support their
uprising.
 LEYLA ZANA
Director: Kudret Gunes
France 2002 / 51m / Kurdish,
Turkish and French with English subtitles
Leyla Zana, the first woman Kurdish MP to be elected to the
Turkish Parliament in 1992, was impisoned in 1994 for 15 years
for speaking in Kurdish in the Parliament. Kudret Gunes’
personal look at the life of Zana takes her to her
birth-place, friends and exiled husband.
 LIFE IN A DROP OF WATER
Director : Umit Elci
Turkey 2002 / 72m / Turkish with no
subtitles
The treatment of prisoners and prison conditions in Turkey
have resulted in regular hunger strikes in the last 20 years.
This documentary focuses on the 1996 Hunger Strikes against
the use of isolation cells in F-type prisons. It includes
interviews with strikers, writers and activists like Ercan
Kanar, Eren Keskin, Celal Baslangic and Oral Calislar. The
film takes its name from the water pipette that was used to
moisten the strikers lips.
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