10º Edição – OLHARES DO MEDITERRÂNEO 2023
MELHOR FILME BEST FEATURE PRÉMIO TRAVESSIAS-ISCTE
OUÇA AQUI LISTEN TO SEVINAZ EVDIKE
COMPETIÇÃO GERAL LONGAS METRAGENS / TRAVESSIAS
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COM A PRESENÇA DO DIRECTOR DE FOTOGRAFIA THE DIRECTOR OF CINEMATOGRAPHY WILL BE PRESENT
BERBU
Sevinaz Evdike
Síria, Espanha • Fic • 2022 • 70’
Em Serekaniye, uma cidade na fronteira entre a Síria e a Turquia ameaçada pela guerra, três jovens curdas, Gule, Barin e Naze, planeiam os casamentos com que sempre sonharam. Quando as primeiras bombas atingem a cidade, as três fogem da cidade enquanto o seu destino muda e os seus sonhos também.
In Serekaniye, a city on the border between Syria and Turket threatened by war, three young Kurdish women, Gule, Barin and Naze are planning their dream weddings. When the first bombs hit the city, they flee Serekaniye while their destinies and dreams change.
Argumento Screenplay Sevinaz Evdike
Produção Production Dijwar Mousa
Fotografia Cinematography Olmo Coute Perez
Montagem Editing Simon Al Haber
Música Music Mahmoud Berazi
Direcção de Arte Art Design Mahmoud Sheikh
Design de Som Sound Design Victor Perez
Com With Najbir Khan
Estreia Nacional Portuguese Première
Festivais Festivals
Ann Arbor FF, EUA | Kolkata IFF, Índia | Galway FF, Irlanda
Nota da Realizadora Director’s Statement
Since 2012 I have lost many things starting with the life I used to have and many friends, ending with relatives and families. Also, as a filmmaker as I have witnessed all the combats from the fight against ISIS until the Turkish occupation of Serekaniye, my city. Watching Russia, the US and the Syrian regime on the streets of our cities and taking no action against this occupation, I believe it would be of great importance for me and my people as a female Kurdish filmmaker to narrate the story of hundreds of thousands of Kurds through the story of a simple life event, such as a wedding, which will act as the manifestation of people’s struggles on this small piece of a huge conflicts. Rojava now is facing a huge occupation by Türkiye, the second biggest army in NATO, and all the people of Serekaniye, including our three female characters are forced to move from Serekaniye. This occupation will again put the people of Rojava including these families under the threat of massive displacement. The brides’ destiny is blurry, taken away as they have been from their place, where their families were in a city that resembles them in language, traditions and costumes. The situation in Rojava is one of its own kind, it’s a mini-second world war. On this little territory, Rojava, one is able to see all the sophisticated armies of the world in its streets. Despite the ongoing murdering and death of people of Rojava on a daily basis, those armies only do their requested tasks and close their eyes to the death of people. It is one of the world wonders that the US military and the Russian military are in the same cities, crossing each other in this small area in the world. However, even when both those incompatible powers meet on a point in this land, they do not meet to protect its people rather they are here to protect their own interests. On the other hand, the story of the three women that I was inspired from are real stories that happened in Rojava. They are my friends and their families, somehow I thought that as a filmmaker I can be the person who can tell these stories. They represent all what the society went through and the contradictions of our simple society itself. While we were facing a war we couldn’t break away from our social and religious rules about women. At the same time, we show women like Gule who take action and decisions changing the life that she used to live and accept. We try to tell the story of a big war through the small stories of three women. I try to talk about the suffering and how life continues during this bad time. In every circumstances the human being must survive. It is of great significance to share the stories of this land through the families that were witness and also took part in all the changes that happened here, and by on one hand show the humanitarian situation of the Kurdish people who live now in camps and schools, and by on the other hand. Therefore, I ,as a Kurdish woman who has spent all her life here, will always support and be part of the ongoing work of the Autonomous-Administration which supported and gave women the privilege of everything in Rojava. Unfortunately, I have experienced displacement and was forced to flee from my house twice, leaving everything behind. The three characters, as I told below, were inspired by my friends and families, somehow I thought that as a filmmaker I owe them to tell their stories to the world.
