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ARMENIAN CAST AND CREW IN OZCAN ALPER'S LATEST FILM: NOW IN TURKISH CINEMAS
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11.11.2011
Award-winning Turkish director Ozcan Alper's second film "Future Lasts
Forever" ("Gelecek Uzun Surer") will hit screens in Turkey today. The
film had its world premier at the Toronto International Film Festival
in September this year.
The only Turkish representative at the event this year, Alper's film,
starring Gaye Gursel, Durukan Ordu, Sarkis Seropyan, Osman Karakoc
and Erdal Kirik, was shown in the Contemporary World Cinema section
of the festival, a new addition to the program this year.
Sarkis Seropyan, who plays Antranik in the film (pictured above), is
the editor of the Armenian pages of Istanbul based bilingual weekly
Agos. Also among the film's cast and crew is Assistant Director Lusin
Dink, cousin of Turkish-Armenian journalist and editor of Agos Hrant
Dink who was assassinated in 2007, and Dink's youngest daughter,
Sera Dink, who worked on graphic design.
As reported by Today's Zaman: Shot in a range of locations across
Turkey, including İstanbul, Diyarbakır, Van and the southeastern
Kurdish province of Hakkari, the story, which touches upon Turkey's
ethnic Turkish and Kurdish tensions, follows the tale of a young
ethnomusicologist, Sumru, who leaves İstanbul in order to conduct
research for her doctorate in what turns out to be a much longer trip
than she could ever have imagined. In Dıyarbakır, where she stays
for three months, her new acquaintances speak of an "unnamed war."
Searching for testimony, Sumru, however, finds herself having to
confront unpleasant memories from her own past, which she had tried
hard to keep buried.
A Turkish, German and French co-production, the film also references
Sourp Giragos Armenian Church in Diyarbakır which was restored and
opened a couple of weeks before.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
epress.am
11.11.2011
Award-winning Turkish director Ozcan Alper's second film "Future Lasts
Forever" ("Gelecek Uzun Surer") will hit screens in Turkey today. The
film had its world premier at the Toronto International Film Festival
in September this year.
The only Turkish representative at the event this year, Alper's film,
starring Gaye Gursel, Durukan Ordu, Sarkis Seropyan, Osman Karakoc
and Erdal Kirik, was shown in the Contemporary World Cinema section
of the festival, a new addition to the program this year.
Sarkis Seropyan, who plays Antranik in the film (pictured above), is
the editor of the Armenian pages of Istanbul based bilingual weekly
Agos. Also among the film's cast and crew is Assistant Director Lusin
Dink, cousin of Turkish-Armenian journalist and editor of Agos Hrant
Dink who was assassinated in 2007, and Dink's youngest daughter,
Sera Dink, who worked on graphic design.
As reported by Today's Zaman: Shot in a range of locations across
Turkey, including İstanbul, Diyarbakır, Van and the southeastern
Kurdish province of Hakkari, the story, which touches upon Turkey's
ethnic Turkish and Kurdish tensions, follows the tale of a young
ethnomusicologist, Sumru, who leaves İstanbul in order to conduct
research for her doctorate in what turns out to be a much longer trip
than she could ever have imagined. In Dıyarbakır, where she stays
for three months, her new acquaintances speak of an "unnamed war."
Searching for testimony, Sumru, however, finds herself having to
confront unpleasant memories from her own past, which she had tried
hard to keep buried.
A Turkish, German and French co-production, the film also references
Sourp Giragos Armenian Church in Diyarbakır which was restored and
opened a couple of weeks before.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress