Short on Saturday Mothers goes to main festivals
Short on Saturday Mothers goes to main festivals
The short-movie “Bêdengî/Silence” by Aziz Çapkurt, who shows a silence reaction against the war and focuses on Saturday mothers, will be competing at the leading festivals of Europe.
Already shown at Cannes Film Festival, 4. Hamburg Filmfest, 10. Diyarbakýr Culture Art Festival; the short movie will be taking place in international competition branch at Korsika Mediterranean Short Film Festival, which starts on 26 September.
Apart from that; the film will be shown at 17. Adana Altýn Koza Filmfest Mediterranean International Short Film Competition, at 7. Budapest Short Film and in Hungary.The film tells the meeting of Saturday mothers and a young boy who did his military service in Kurdistan.
Ýlker Kýzmaz and Saadet Çaçan are featuring in the film which was made in three days within the body of Ýstanbul MKM (Mesopotamia Cultural Center) movie collective. Saadet Çaçan is at the same time a mother of peace.
About his film, Director Aziz Çapkurt says the followings; “The film is about the insensitivity against the 30 year old war in Turkey. Thousands of young people are doing military service in the war in east, then they follow on their lives. Such a serious trauma is aimed to be engraved in subconscious and to be lived down. This is not so much easy. Hier, the film ‘Bêdengî’ takes its name from this silence against the war and from the silence act of Saturday Mothers. War hurts everyone. Everyone conscientious and moral.”
Credits
Name: Bêdengî (Silence)
Type: Fiction
Time: 14 min.
Format : HD
Production Year: 2010
Cast: Ýlker Kýzmaz, Saadet Çaçan, Fýrat Aksan, Musa Karagöz, Mehmet Hadi Sümer, Hêvîdar Bakýr
Screenplay / Director: Aziz Çapkurt
Translator: Berna Ozgencil
Already shown at Cannes Film Festival, 4. Hamburg Filmfest, 10. Diyarbakýr Culture Art Festival; the short movie will be taking place in international competition branch at Korsika Mediterranean Short Film Festival, which starts on 26 September.
Apart from that; the film will be shown at 17. Adana Altýn Koza Filmfest Mediterranean International Short Film Competition, at 7. Budapest Short Film and in Hungary.The film tells the meeting of Saturday mothers and a young boy who did his military service in Kurdistan.
Ýlker Kýzmaz and Saadet Çaçan are featuring in the film which was made in three days within the body of Ýstanbul MKM (Mesopotamia Cultural Center) movie collective. Saadet Çaçan is at the same time a mother of peace.
About his film, Director Aziz Çapkurt says the followings; “The film is about the insensitivity against the 30 year old war in Turkey. Thousands of young people are doing military service in the war in east, then they follow on their lives. Such a serious trauma is aimed to be engraved in subconscious and to be lived down. This is not so much easy. Hier, the film ‘Bêdengî’ takes its name from this silence against the war and from the silence act of Saturday Mothers. War hurts everyone. Everyone conscientious and moral.”
Credits
Name: Bêdengî (Silence)
Type: Fiction
Time: 14 min.
Format : HD
Production Year: 2010
Cast: Ýlker Kýzmaz, Saadet Çaçan, Fýrat Aksan, Musa Karagöz, Mehmet Hadi Sümer, Hêvîdar Bakýr
Screenplay / Director: Aziz Çapkurt
Translator: Berna Ozgencil
