Fabrika üretiminin emektarı makineleri yakından tanıyacağımız bu atölyede çocuklar, kendi fabrikalarında olmasını hayal ettikleri eğlenceli robotları geri dönüşümlü malzemelerle tasarlayacaklar.

Eğitmen: Gizem Ulufer
Yaş: 6-9
Kontenjan: 12
Malzemeler: Tuvalet kağıdı rulosu, şöniller, artık hırdavat malzemeleri, plastik kapaklar, oynar gözler.

THE SILENCE OF THE BANANA TREES

Director: Eneos Carka
2022 / Hungary, Belgium, Portugal, Albania /  Colour, B&W / 24′
English, Hungarian; English, Turkish subtitles

Festivals&Awards: IDFA (2022), Hot Docs (2022), FIPADOC FF - Young Creation - Best Documentary (2023)

Seventy-something Hungarian Mihály Fekete has filled his house in a leafy suburb of Budapest with art works made by his daughter Réka. It’s clear from the way he talks about her that she’s an important part of his life; however, they have not spoken for years. Her decision to keep distance from her father is painful for him, especially since she is ill. Despite his sorrow, he has resigned himself to do as she wishes. At his home, where this film is being shot, and where he and his family grew up, he is able to draw from a reservoir of tangible memories: vacation slides, letters, videos and children’s drawings.
The film eventually becomes a go-between in an attempt to restore a lost connection. Using abstract imagery and patient observations, documentary maker Eneos Çarka evokes a sense of transience, carrying the viewer off in a maelstrom of recollections and feelings that lead to the gripping finale.

FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO

Director: Lynne Sachs
2020 / Sweden, Norway, France, Germany / Colour / 74′
Russian; English, Turkish subtitles

Over a period of thirty-five years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16 mm film, videotape, and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. Like a cubist rendering of a face, Sachs’s cinematic exploration of her father offers multiple, sometimes contradictory, views of a seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately shrouded in mystery. With this meditation on fatherhood and masculinity, Sachs allows herself and her audience to see beneath the surface of the skin, beyond the projected reality. As the startling facts mount, she discovers more about her father than she had ever hoped to reveal.  This exclusive streaming premiere is accompanied by a selection of experimental short films by Sachs, many of which also reflect her probing exploration of family relationships.

Proceeds from the tickets sold in "LOVE, REBELLION, FREEDOM" screenings will be donated to earthquake relief efforts.

Director: Magnus Gertten
2022 / Sweden, Belgium, Norway / Colour, B&W / 92’
French, English, Swedish, Spanish; English, Turkish subtitles

Festivals&Awards: Berlinale -  Teddy Jury Award (2022), Lübeck Nordic Film Days - Honourable Mention (2022), Docville (2022), Palm Springs (2023)

The voice of opera singer Nelly resonates in the middle of Ravensbrück concentration camp. Nelly and Nadine met for the first time at Christmas in 1944. They found each other again after liberation and were to stay together for the rest of their lives. Today, Nelly’s granddaughter Sylvie is about to be confronted with her grandmother’s legacy, locked in a box. The photographs, Super 8 footage and audio recordings as well as the poetic and harrowing diary entries that she comes across describe not only her grandmother’s memories of the camp, but also tell the story of her life with Nadine – a relationship that was never referred to as such by the family. “Nothing is real until it’s socially expressed”, says historian Joan Schenkar in conversation with Sylvie.

Over a period of one year, Magnus Gertten accompanies granddaughter Sylvie on her cautious search, following the traces of the untold stories that are found in the various sources. A moving film about a deep and loving lesbian relationship and the necessity of individual and collective remembrance.

Proceeds from the tickets sold in "LOVE, REBELLION, FREEDOM" screenings will be donated to earthquake relief efforts.

Kundura Hafıza arşivindeki fotoğraflar ve sözlü tarih anlatılarından yola çıkarak tasarlanan bu atölyede, Sümerbank Fabrikası’ndaki çalışanların anılarında minik bir hafıza turuna çıkıyoruz. Sergi alanında saklanmış ve hafızanın temsilcisi hayvanlar olan filleri bulmaya çalışacak çocuklar, kendi hafızalarının temsilcisi olacak filleri tasarlayacaklar.

Eğitmen: Gizem Ulufer 
Yaş: 6-9  
Kontenjan: 12
Malzemeler: Büyüteç, seramik çamuru, kürdan. 

Original title: KOTLOVAN
Director: Andrei Gryazev
2020 / Russia / Colour / 70’
Russian; English, Turkish subtitles

Festivals&Awards: Berlinale (2020), Atina FF (2020), Tallinn Black Nights FF (2020), IDFA (2020), Nike Awards - Best Documentary (2021)

Countless Russian citizens are making their voices heard by using what they see as their last resort: social media. Some post from the cameras in their cars; others report from their kitchens, or the streets. All over the country, people tell of their frustration, unhappiness, and rage. Sometimes the issue is a relatively personal one and the focus of their ire is a local policymaker. More often, their discontent is squarely aimed at Putin and members of his party. They see that these corrupt and greedy figures are growing ever richer while the rest of Russia slumps into poverty.

Andrey Gryazev found his compatriots’ heartfelt pleas and tirades online and spliced them into an effective protest that is sometimes comical and absurd, but more often downright shocking. The film’s title comes from Andrej Platonov’s eponymous dystopian novel, in which the construction of a building for members of the proletariat in the early days of the Soviet Union never gets past the construction pit stage.

In this film, footage of construction site accidents and building sites with no apparent purpose or where shady activities take place serves as a prelude to a collective fist raised by the Russian people against their government.

Proceeds from the tickets sold in "LOVE, REBELLION, FREEDOM" screenings will be donated to earthquake relief efforts.

Director: Marusya Syroechkovskaya
2022 / Sweden, Norway, France, Germany / Colour / 103′
Russian; English, Turkish subtitles

Festivals&Awards: Nyon Visions du Réel - Special Mention (2022), Guanajuato FF Honorary Mention (2022), Ghent FF - Explore Award (2022), Festival du nouveau cinéma - FIPRESCI Award (2022), Bilbao FF - Youth Award (2022), Singapore FF - Audience Award (2022),  DOC NYC - Grand Jury Prize (2022)

Marusya Syroechkovskaya is a suicidal teenager when she meets troubled Kimi Morev. She knows right away that she has found a kindred spirit. “He had scars on his wrists and he knew every single Joy Division song by heart,” she says in the voice-over of her personal debut film. But where love gives her a new perspective, he fights his demons with more and more drugs. So Syroechkovskaya focuses her ambitions on recording the loss of her loved one.

Filmed over the course of 12 years, ‘How to Save a Dead Friend’ is a personal cry from the heart, and a message from a silenced generation. It is an unbreakable love story existing in a destructible world.

Proceeds from the tickets sold in "LOVE, REBELLION, FREEDOM" screenings will be donated to earthquake relief efforts.

Kundura Hafıza arşivinde bulunan ayakkabı modellerinden ilhâm alarak hazırlanan bu atölyede, bir ayakkabının üretim sürecine ve bu üretim sürecindeyken fabrika içinde yaşananlara odaklanıyoruz. Tasarımın ne demek olduğunu ve hangi yöntemlerle yapıldığını konuşuyor ve ardından hepimiz, fabrikada birer tasarımcıya dönüşüp kendi ayakkabılarımızı tasarlıyoruz.

Eğitmen: Gizem Ulufer  
Yaş: 6-9
Kontenjan: 12
Malzemeler: Seramik çamuru, su, kürdan.

DocLisboa Selection
The film programme of Doclisboa Film Festival, one of the most influential festivals of documentary cinema for 21 years, exclusively curated for Kundura DocLab, brings three films from recent Portuguese cinema to the Istanbul audience.

HOME, REVISED
Director: Inês Pedrosa e Melo
2022 / Portugal / Colour / 28’
Portuguese; English, Turkish sub.

While trying to make a film that makes sense of home movies from her home country, Portugal, a filmmaker in the beginning of her career talks with other filmmakers in the hopes of understanding what it takes to make cinema out of archival images.

BENTUGUESE
Original title: BENTUGUÊS
Director: Daniel Borga
2022 / Portugal / Colour / 16’
Portuguese; English, Turkish sub.

After school, a group of children gathers at Casa de São Bento, where a community project is located and they have the freedom to dream, play and grow. Inside a time machine, they think about their future.

VEXATIONS
Director: Leonardo Mouramateus
2022 / Portugal / Colour / 23’
Portuguese; English, Turkish sub.

Portuguese choreographer João Fiadeiro is organising an archive that is over 30 years old and crosses his work in contemporary dance with the history of the Lisbon studio he is about to vacate. In a few days, João will be dancing for seven hours uninterruptedly in a last performance before the final closure of Atelier RE.AL.

Proceeds from the tickets sold in "LOVE, REBELLION, FREEDOM" screenings will be donated to earthquake relief efforts.

Director: Payal Kapadia
2021 / France, India / Colour / 99′
Hindi, Bangla, English, French; English, Turkish subtitles 

Festivals&Awards: Cannes FF - Best Documentary (2021),  Lisbon&Estoril FF - Best Film (2021), Toronto FF - Special Mention–Amplify Voices (2021), Taiwan FF - Merit Prize (2022), Doc Alliance - Best Documentary (2022)

Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in the lives of young people across the country as they take to the streets to protest the widespread religious and caste-based discrimination intensifying under Narendra Modi. In her debut film, Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archival footage with student protest videos to create a vital tapestry of the personal and the political. With its dreamlike editing rhythms and revelatory use of sound, A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING is both an essential document of contemporary India and a nostalgic look at youth fighting the injustice of their time.

Proceeds from the tickets sold in "LOVE, REBELLION, FREEDOM" screenings will be donated to earthquake relief efforts.