Turkish history overshadows Istanbul Film Festival
euronews (in English)
2015-04-24
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The banning of a Kurdish film at this year’s Istanbul Film festival has overshadowed the whole event.
As a mark of solidarity other directors and members of the jury pulled films from the competition meaning the award ceremonies were cancelled.
This comes at a sensitive time in Turkey as Armenians mark the 100th anniversary of the massacres by the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War I.
Two films related to this dark chapter in history were programmed.
Firstly the French filmmakers Anna Benjamin and Guillaume Clere showed their documentary set in modern day Turkey. In “L’heritage du Silence” ghosts of the past still trouble the lives of many people in Turkey.
Many of those Armenians who survived the killings which started in 1915 none-the-less lost their Armenian identity when they converted to Islam and became Turkish. One hundred years later their grandchildren find out that they have Armenian roots.
This documentary tells the story of four people who are trying to find o
As a mark of solidarity other directors and members of the jury pulled films from the competition meaning the award ceremonies were cancelled.
This comes at a sensitive time in Turkey as Armenians mark the 100th anniversary of the massacres by the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War I.
Two films related to this dark chapter in history were programmed.
Firstly the French filmmakers Anna Benjamin and Guillaume Clere showed their documentary set in modern day Turkey. In “L’heritage du Silence” ghosts of the past still trouble the lives of many people in Turkey.
Many of those Armenians who survived the killings which started in 1915 none-the-less lost their Armenian identity when they converted to Islam and became Turkish. One hundred years later their grandchildren find out that they have Armenian roots.
This documentary tells the story of four people who are trying to find o
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