At a Kurdish wedding, an elderly man moves through the crowd, cautioning guests not to raise the victory sign, a gesture long associated with the Kurdish guerrilla movement.
Amid the deafening rhythms of drums, a kaleidoscope of dresses, and the chaotic ecstasy of the halay dance, a young girl recalls her hometown, one she was forced to flee under the sound of gunfire.
Filmed in Gaziantep and Sur just months after the war between the Turkish army and the Kurdish guerrilla forces, this work captures a fleeting moment before the Turkish state undertook the gentrification of Sur’s historic neighborhood, erasing much of what remained.
