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Русский“Pain of 100 Years”: New section at Istanbul International Film Festival
The Istanbul International Film Festival has separate sections this year, and one of them is called “Pain of 100 Years”. By responding to the centennial with this, the organizers of the festival remind the following words of Hranush/Seher: “May those days go by and never return”-writes Evrensel website, according to tert.am.
With the hope of finding her relatives who moved to America after the death of her Islamized grandmother Hranush/Seher, Fethiye Cetin submitted an announcement to the late Hrant Dink’s Agos Weekly that ended with her grandmother’s following words: “May those days go by and never return”.
“In the 100th year of the great pain of loss of our culture, traditions, arts and people on the lands of Anatolia, we remember our losses, our neighbors and the people of those lands through films. As Hranush/Seher would say, “may those days go by and never return”. There are two films posted in the “Pain of 100 Years” section,” say the festival’s organizers.
Haji Orman’s German-language film is about the disappointment that German theologian Johannes Lepsius felt when he met with Enver Pasha in Istanbul to put an end to the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
He goes to see Enver Pashsa at the residence in Istanbul to stop implementation of the policy on the displacement of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The atmosphere changes halfway through the meeting.
The other film called “Legacy of Silence” starts with Armen, Yashar and Nazle examining their history. Armen, Doghukan, Yashar and Kemal are Turks and Kurds, but something unexpected changes their lives around. They are all also Armenian. Their parents and grandparents were saved from the massacres of 1915. They assimilated to Turkish and Kurdish families and converted to Islam to save themselves. Since then, that secret has been kept, but the story has been revealed.
In the film, Armen, Doghukan, Yashar and Nazle follow the traces of their ancestors, learn Armenian and become Christians. In that period, they study, discover the reality, get frustrated and continue to live with hope…
