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THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF ÇIRALI
Film at the Ottoman Bank Museum
 The Museum's movie theater is showing the Turkish documentary, Çıralı: Doğala Dönüş ["Çıralı: A Return to Nature"], under the theme, "Natural-Urban Environment / Architectural Texture," on Thursday, March 23, at 7:00 p.m. Following the screening, Emine Kuzutürk, Ulupınar Village Cooperative Executive Board member and project manager, conducts a discussion entitled, "The Story of Çıralı."
The documentary centers on the inhabitants of Çıralı, a district of Antalya, and their attempts to diversify their income sources through ecological farming and tourism. By alternating organic farming and eco-tourism, they aim to simultaneously increase their income and contribute to the conservation of their natural heritage. Thus, they hope to keep Çıralı an environment where tourists can "pick oranges off the tree," and their children play with chickens and goats in the garden.
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.
Çıralı: A Return to Nature
Directed by: Necati Sönmez/Bülent Arınlı
Turkey / 2004
Running time: 24 min. |
Emine Kuzutürk
Kuzutürk was born in 1975, in Munich. She graduated with a degree in biology from Hacettepe University and while still a student, participated voluntarily in the projects of the Society for the Protection of Natural Life (DHKD). In 1997, she began working as the assistant representative of the Society for the Protection of Natural Life in its Ankara office. In 1998, she served as project manager in a coastal management project ("Türkiye'de Kıyı Yönetimi ve Turizm: Belek- Çıralı") undertaken by DHKD with financial support from the EU. While working on that project, she lived for 4.5 years in Çıralı. |
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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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