The Others
Synopsis
The Kurdish province Van is famous for its unique cats, which are the cultural symbol of the Kurds, Turks and the Armenians. Van was the historical home of the Armenians until 1915 – the year of the genocide. Nowadays all that remains are the ruins of countless churches and a small number of inhabitants with Armenian roots, though most of them are scared to admit this. The 34-year-old Ali speaks openly about his Armenian grandmother Piroze. He accompanies us through the world of theresidents, one that is filled with taboos, distrust and fear. The film tracks down the traces of this cruelhistory and shows that, “the past is never dead, it is not even past.”(W.Faulkner)
Director and Script: Ayşe Polat
Producer: Ayşe Polat, Mehmet Aktaş
DoP: Meryem Yavuz, Armin Dierolf
Editor: Eyüp Zana Ekinci
Sound: Mustafa Baydemir
Sounddesign: Florian Tippe
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