70th Venice International Film Festival | Director: Alberto Barbera 28th August > 7th September 2013
Presented as part of Orizzonti
Mavi Boncuk |
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HOUSES WITH SMALL WINDOWS - by Bülent Öztürk - Belgium, 15'
language: Kurdish - s/t English, Italian
Mizgin Mujde Arslan[1]
Synopsis
The portrait of an honor killing in the rural Kurdish South-East of Turkey. 22-year-old Dilan pays for her forbidden love for a young man in a neighboring village with her life. She has shamed the family and therefore must die at the hands of her own brothers. And as tradition will have it, the killing must be compensated. Yet another victim is made. 6-year-old Emine is given to the relatives of Dilan. A sobbing child, snatched away from its mother, reduced to a mere commodity.
[1] Mizgin Müjde Arslan is viewed as one of Turkey’s most exciting young filmmakers. She made a movie about her father, whom she hardly met but who was an active Kurdish guerrilla. The result was the much-acclaimed documentary, “I flew, you stayed” (2012).
See also: FILM DIRECTOR AND DAUGHTER OF A GUERRILLA LEADER
Presented as part of Orizzonti
Mavi Boncuk |
HOUSES WITH SMALL WINDOWS - by Bülent Öztürk - Belgium, 15'
language: Kurdish - s/t English, Italian
Mizgin Mujde Arslan[1]
Synopsis
The portrait of an honor killing in the rural Kurdish South-East of Turkey. 22-year-old Dilan pays for her forbidden love for a young man in a neighboring village with her life. She has shamed the family and therefore must die at the hands of her own brothers. And as tradition will have it, the killing must be compensated. Yet another victim is made. 6-year-old Emine is given to the relatives of Dilan. A sobbing child, snatched away from its mother, reduced to a mere commodity.
[1] Mizgin Müjde Arslan is viewed as one of Turkey’s most exciting young filmmakers. She made a movie about her father, whom she hardly met but who was an active Kurdish guerrilla. The result was the much-acclaimed documentary, “I flew, you stayed” (2012).
See also: FILM DIRECTOR AND DAUGHTER OF A GUERRILLA LEADER