Hush! Germany / France
2009, 50min.
Prod.: Richard Copans, Berke Baş, Dorian Lesley-Jones, Belma Baş, Script/Dir.: Berke Baş, Dir. of Phot.: Berke Baş, Mehmet Zengin, Sound: Dorian Lesley-Jones, Budak Akalin, Edit.: Catherine Gouze
Visiting her hometown Ordu in Northeastern Turkey, Turkish filmmaker Berke Baş discovers her great-grandmother's Armenian origins and the tragic unspoken past of a once cosmopolitan city. Through conversations with family members and the few surviving Armenians the film tries to restore a memory that is on the verge of being lost.
Production Company
Les Films d'Ici
Filmik Produksiyon
WDR
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Berke Bas studied political science and international relations at Bogazici University, Istanbul and received her masters degree in media studies at New School for Social Research, New York. She co-founded in House projects, a media collective, in New York in 1998 and has worked in various documentary projects and publicity videos dealing especially with individual and public rights. Now located in Istanbul, she is a part-time lecturer at the Cultural Studies and Film-TV graduate programs of Istanbul Bilgi University and founding member of both doc Istanbul and Filmfest.
Filmography
Crossing Brooklyn (2002), In Transit (2005), What a Beautiful Democracy! (2008), Hush! (2009), Betonpark (2009)
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