Credits
Italy 2009, 56', Hdv, documentary Directed by: Mauro Colombo Written by: Massimo Lazzaroni e Mauro Colombo Producer: Hagam Executive producer: Gianluca Gibilaro Producer in place Veysy Kocaman Art Director: Daniele Di Luca Music by: Marco Caielli e Andrea Sessa
With: Mehmet Tarhan, Suayp Basaran, Cemile Arl, Jiyan Kandemir, Aysun Kaya, Tuba Bicakci, A. Alim Altun, M. Sirin Gul, Abdusselam Ulucam, Abdulvahap Kusen, Sukran Kusen, Azad Tamkan, Tamkan family, Seker family. Sound post production: La Sauna; Sound record: Hasan Tunc; Research: Massimo Lazzaroni; Hasankeyf production assistance: Jillian Hopkins; Editing: Mauro Colombo; Color correction: Andrea Turri; Translation: Veysy Kocaman, Schioresc Emen; Translation consultancy: Pinar Okal Kelesoglu; Technical consultancy: Luciano Cefariello Editing assistance and title design: Francesca Costaldi; Technical supplies: Media 88.
With the support of: Manuel Benedusi, Luigi Bonacina, Lorenzo Bossi, Marina De Giovanetti, Dino De Simone, Mariangela Gerletti, Andrea Perotti, Stefania Radman, Cristina Ronzoni, Giulio Rossini, Donata Sbardellati, Stefano Soru, Beatrice Spozio, Fabiana Spozio, Raffaele Taranto, Marco Tenaglia, Angelo Zappoli Thanks to: Turkish Embassy, Cultural and Information Office, Batman District, Cultural Office, Kashir Travel, Osman Varol, Hassan Seker, Cemal Yilmaz, Sabahattin Demirtas, Ziya Sutcu, Andreas, Caner Tekin, Serdar Bekiroglu, Kadir Ilker Öztürk, Mehmet Sait Tune, Halit, Edip, Health presidium of Hasankeyf, Besir Tutus High School, Mario Agostinelli, Luigi Cipriano, Alessandro Pollio, Michele Sasso, Alfredo De Bellis, Mila Forlani, Gianpaolo Gelati, Mauro Gervasini, Alessandro Leone, Silvia Mastorgio, Silvano Lonardo, Fabio d'Addario, Marco Odorico, Valentina Polonio, Ezio Riboni, Lidia Romeo, Paola Sacchiero, Giuseppe Sangiorgio, Manuel Sgarella, Michele Todisco, Hendrick Wijmans, Barbara Zanetti, Filmstudio90, Cooperativa Sociale Totem.
Synopsis
Hasankeyf, south eastern Turckey.
An ancient village doomed to be submerged under 30 metres of water due to the building of a dam.
A river, the Tigris. 5000 inhabitants should go away, leaving their land, the land of their fathers, of their ancestors. Hasankeyf is an ancient village on the Tigris river, in the Mesopotamia of the Assyrian and of the Byzantine, the place where the central Asian and Persian cultures crossed with the Europeans. Today 5000 inhabitants, most Kurdish, live in Hasankeyf: a community that lives as suspended in time, since when, in the 195, the Ilisu dam project was born. The Ilisu dam in activity, once completed, would submerge Hasankeyf under 30 metres of water. But the life in Hasankeyf continues as nothing has to happen. The children play in the river, the men take care of the animals, the young ladies go every evening milking the ships on the shores of the Tigris, the small restaurants wait for the tourists that reach Hasankeyf during the year. There is not job in Hasankeyf. The perspectives of life are limited to the poverty of the village. No one wants to invest in a tourism economy if the village would still be flooded in few years. While somewhere else someone is deciding the sort of this place, a whole community lives in a limbo, with not enough news about his destiny and with a exhausting indecision about what to do. HASANKEYF, WAITING LIFE tell a story of a big conflict living the daily life, where the history collides with modernity, national interests with the local ones, the necessity of personal growth with the preservation of the own roots.
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It looks amazing. How can we watch the whole documentary?
dinasoull 1 year ago
long live Hasankeyf..stop de turkisch state terror !
JiYaNo12 2 years ago