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Article: CELLULOID civilisations.(Turkish film festival)(Brief Article)
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- The Middle East
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- June 1, 2000
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Jon Gorvett reports on screenings at the Istanbul Film Festival
There is a red earth to Turkey's south-east. It is a land of rocky hills and rolling plains, its dry soil scattered with boulders and stumpy shrubs. It is also a land of absence, haunted by the crumbled walls of empty farmsteads and the ghostly remains of abandoned villages.
This land of spectres is also the home of an absent people. Its culture denied, its language nowhere to be heard, some two million of its inhabitants are thought to have left for other lands during the last 15 years. Few of them are likely to return.
It is in this landscape of loss that 27-year-old director Kazim ...