Min dît
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Min dît |
| Country of production |
Germany Turkey |
| original language |
Kurdish Turkish |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Miraz Bezar |
| script | Miraz Bezar |
| production |
Miraz Bezar Fatih Akın Klaus Maeck Flaminio Zadra |
| camera | Isabelle Casez |
| cut | Miraz Bezar |
| occupation | |
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Min dît is the first feature film by Berlin filmmaker Miraz Bezar , who directed, wrote and produced the project. Was co-produced the film in 2009, the international distribution title The Children of Diyarbakir (dt. The Children of Diyarbakir ) is of Corazón International , the production company Fatih Akın .
content
The film is set in the city of Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey. Ten-year-old Gülistan, her slightly younger brother Fırat and a few months old sister Dilovan live in a middle-class Kurdish family. The father works for a Kurdish-language newspaper, the mother's sister is very politically active. An acquaintance of hers, who has to go into hiding, stays with the family for a few days. The following weekend, the parents were shot by members of the JITEM on their way back from a wedding in front of the children .
The aunt looks after the children for the first few days. To get travel documents for Stockholm , she sets off for Istanbul - and never comes back. The children stay afloat for a while by selling what they can do without in terms of furnishings. But at some point the money will be used up for good. The little sister dies. The landlord, who deferred the rent for several months, puts Fırat and Gülistan on the street.
Little by little, they become familiar with life on the street. There are many children there who share their fate. Most of them fled here because of the destruction of their villages by the Turkish military. The twelve year old Zelal shows them how to get reluctant passers-by to buy paper handkerchiefs and lighters. Gülistan befriends Dilan, a prostitute. Together they spend the hours of the day when Dilan is not doing her job. Fırat becomes part of a youth gang. All children participate in a mobile sales booth that promises more income than begging with pennies. But the great promise is Istanbul. You get there in the car and under the thumb of men who make no secret of the fact that the children are no picnic there.
Both children encounter their parents' murderer independently of each other. Gülistan is with Dilan's company. She ensures that she is taken to the apartment in which he lives with his wife and child and wants to use Dilan's services during their absence. Gülistan steals the gun with which he shot her parents. She toyed with the idea of killing him in turn, but the retaliation that she later organizes together with the other children is more lasting: On leaflets that appear all over the neighborhood one morning, they inform about his membership in the JITEM. This strategy is known to Gülistan and Fırat from the fairy tale of the wolf, which is rendered harmless by hanging a bell around its neck so that it can no longer sneak up on a victim unnoticed.
The film ends with a journey into an uncertain but probably not very bright future: together with a dozen other boys and girls, they get into a car that will turn them into Istanbul street children.
background
The film is a German-Turkish co-production. It was filmed in Kurdish and Turkish.
Die Welt reported: “Miraz Bezar did not receive any funding for his film. My own money was soon used up, then that of friends. Eventually the parents sold their house so that Bezar could continue filming. In the end, Fatih Akin stepped in and helped that "Before my Eyes" was finished: a feature film about a sibling couple whose parents are murdered by the state security in Diyarbakir and who are fighting for survival. "
Many children were involved in the film and, despite the tough subject matter, it is also well suited for a young audience. The story is child-friendly, depictions of violence are usually only hinted at. In Germany it is approved by the FSK from 12 years of age or from 6 years when accompanied by a parent.
Awards
The Turkish press also reported on the premiere of the film, which took place on September 22nd, 2009 at the San Sebastián Film Festival . There the film ran in the competition for the New Directors Award and won the Gaztea Youth Award given by an international youth jury . In the subsequent competition at the Ghent Film Festival , he received the Special Jury Award . The German premiere took place at the 17th Hamburg Film Festival , where the film was announced under the title Before my Eyes . Here he received the Young Talent Award . It was also the first Kurdish-language film to be invited to the national competition of the Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali , the most important film festival in Turkey. Here Min dît received an award for the best screenplay. Min dît won the audience award at the Turkey / Germany film festival in Nuremberg in March . Senay Orak was also awarded a sponsorship award. At the end of 2010 the film won the main prize at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Rome and two main prizes at the Poznań Film Festival. Most recently, Miraz Bezar was nominated for the 2011 German Film Prize as Min dît's screenwriter .
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Keil: Festival attracts with films from 42 countries. In: Die Welt , September 20, 2009.
- ↑ http://sanat.milliyet.com.tr/Sanat/HaberDetay.aspx?aType=HaberDetay&KategoriID=39&ArticleID=1132303&Date=26.08.2009&b=Kurtce%20Film,%20San%20Sebastianda%20yarisacak
- ↑ Kemal Doğan: “Genç Türk Sineması” Hamburg Festivali'nde. ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Hürriyet , August 14, 2009.
- ↑ http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/pelicula.php?ano=2009&codigo=570342
- ↑ http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/pyj.php?id=24
- ↑ Film Festival Ghent ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 26, 2009
- ↑ Filmfest Hamburg: Before my Eyes ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 19, 2009
Web links
- Film homepage
- Min dît in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Min dît at crew united