TORNİSTAN | ONE MILLION STEPS | #DİRENAYOL

TORNISTAN
A self-censored film criticizing press censorship on Gezi Park protests which happened between May and July in Turkey 

TUR, 2013, 4 min
Regie Ayçe Kartal


ONE MILLION STEPS
A tap dancer performs, while elsewhere people run from the tear gas of the police. Two worlds apart if it wasn’t for an unexpected opening in the floor, right in front of the dancer. 

DEU, 2015, 21 min
Regie Eva Stotz


#DİRENAYOL
#direnayol accompanies trans* activist Şevval Kılıç during the 21st Istanbul LGBTQIA+ Pride caught up in the reflections of carnivalesque Gezi Park Up-rising. #direnayol is a turbulent audiovisual journey witnessing a wind of hope, humor, and solidarity wished to be remembered in the politics of Turkey today.

TUR, 2016, 55 min
Regie Rüzgar Buşki


Films in Turkish with English subtitles

Q & A with Rüzgar Buşki (with sign language translation)

Film still 1: TORNISTAN
Film still 2: ONE MILLION STEPS
Film still 3: #DİRENAYOL 

 

Part of 6. Berliner Herbstsalon GEZİ – TEN YEARS AFTER. Ein Prolog im Frühling.

The series GeZinema was created in collaboration with the H2020 MSCA-IF project, VIDEOACT, a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101025524.