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KAF DAĞI DÜŞÜ [A Dream of Mount Kaf] Film at the Ottoman Bank Museum
 Under the theme "Social Memory/ Documentary Film," the Ottoman Bank Museum is showing the Turkish documentary Kaf Dağı Düşü [A Dream of Mount Kaf] on Thursday, April 13 at 7:00 p.m. Directed by Sezgin Türk, the film tells the story of Pakize Türk, a woman of Circassian origins born and raised in Turkey, and the feelings a first visit to the Caucasus evoke in her. Following the screening, writer and translator Murat Papşu conducts a discussion entitled, "Can the Circassians' Dream of Mount Kaf Come True?"
In this documentary, Sezgin Türk, whose ancestors were exiled from Caucasia in the 1860s, investigates whether the Mount Kaf "dream country" his mother Pakize Türk kept alive in her imagination coincided with the reality she encountered on her first visit to her native land.
The Museum's film program is prepared in collaboration with the Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB) and offers a film, complemented by a discussion, on a different theme every week Screenings are held free of charge but reservations must be made.
Kaf Dağı Düşü [A Dream of Mount Kaf]
Director: Sezgin Türk Turkey / 2006
Running time: 60 min. |
Murat Papşu
Of Circassian origins, Papşu was born in 1966 in Eskişehir. In 1988, he graduated from the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Ankara University. He has translated from the Russian historical and ethnographic works and memoirs on the Caucasus and the Circassian people. He conceived and edited for the magazine Atlas, a special issue on the Circassians published in March 2002, as well as the March 2003 issue dedicated to the Abkhazians. |
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Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB) started out as a civil platform and began its structuring process following the National Conference held in March 1997. Today it continues its activities as an association with professional status, certified by the Ministry of Culture. Starting with Istanbul, Ankara, Eskisehir and Izmir, BSB is in contact with documentary filmmakers throughout Turkey. Convinced that civil culture is crucial in designing better social futures and filling the blanks of collective social memory, the Documentary Filmmakers Association considers these functions complementary to the creative aspect of documentary filmmaking. BSB creates and promotes screening spaces other than television, organizes and participates in film festivals all over Turkey and offers film screenings with discussions, especially in universities. |
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