Swallow's Nest Turkey
2007, 21min.
Prod.: Şehbal Şenyurt, Nedim Hazar, Dir./Edit.: Bülent Arınlı, Dir. of Phot.: Bülent Arinli, Pavel Schnabel.
Hrant Dink, the Armenian journalist who was assassinated early last year, tells the story of the Camp for Armenian Children which used to exist in Tuzla. Nearby Istanbul, the Tuzla Armenian Children’s Camp was built in the 1980s by Armenian orphans. Hrant Dink himself was one of the orphans who worked in the construction. After the military coup d’etat in 1980, the Turkish government passed a law which took back all the property rights of minorities. This meant that the Armenian orphans lost the camp that had become their home. Now, more than 25 years later, they have started their struggle to get it back. In this film, Hrant Dink visits the location of the ruined camp and shares his memories of how they built the camp, and explains his feelings about what the camp meant to Armenian orphans. Following Hrant Dink’s unsettling and untimely death, this production is a kind of requiem that voices his dreams.
Production Company
SUFilm Aşağı Gökçebel Mah.
Bayır Sk. No. 11 Yalıkavak, Bodrum
Tel: 0533 719 44 33, 0252 386 38 16
E-mail: sehbal@sufilm.net, sehbalsenyurt@yahoo.com
www.sufilm.net
| Arinli, Bulent Bülent Arinli
Arinli is a director, director of photography and editor for documentary films. He is also one of the founders of The Association of Documentary Film Makers in Turkey. His films are broadcasted on many TV channels and screened in different international film festivals. One of his films called The Lake Pallas was also screened at Sunchild Film Festival in Yerevan. He worked for news programmes and dramas based on social issues for TV. He directed short films and experimental documentaries and has been mostly working on minority and human rights issues for the last years.
Filmography
The Lake Palas (2003), Returning Back to Natural Life – Olympos, What if.., Forgotten Times, Swallow’s Nest (2007)
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