TRT Documentary Days May 9–10, 2013

Within the scope of the TRT Documentary Days, Istanbul Modern Cinema presents a program of 10 films from the Balkans. Besides documentaries treating of the effects of the Bosnian War from various aspects and from past to present, the program also includes films stretching from Hungary and Slovenia to Turkey and Croatia and depicting impressive slices of everyday life. Directors will also attend screenings and hold talks.

EVERYDAY OF ALLAH HORSES RUNNING
(ALLAH MİNDEN NAPJÁN SZALADNAK A LOVAK) 
Hungary | DVD, Color, 63’ | Hungarian
Director: Anna Kis
Through small-scale scenes from everyday life, this documentary approaches the large-scale issues of integration of the Muslim community in Budapest.

CINEMA KOMUNISTO
Serbia | DVD, Color, 101’ | Serbian
Director: Mila Turajlic
Cinema Komunisto takes us on a journey through the remains of Tito’s film industry, exploring the rise and fall of former Yugoslavia.

THE ROLE OF MY LIFE
Bosnia Herzigova | DVD, Color, 60’ | Boşnian
Director: Nadja Mehmedbasic
A true story that could happen to anyone based on the determination to live and resist of an actor (Nermin Tulic) who had lost his legs during the Bosnian War and picks up his role in a play that had been interrupted. The film bears witness to the courage that life imparts on humankind and the immeasurable beauty and power of love…

THE LONG VACATION
Slovenia | DVD, Color, 80’ | Slovenian
Director: Damjan Kozole
The story of three young people who were erased from the civil registry along with 20,000 individuals who shared the same fate in February 1992, half a year after Slovenia gained its independence…

THE ALEXANDRIANS
Slovenia | DVD, Color, 95’ | Slovenian
Director: Metod Pevec
The Alexandrians focuses on a painful emigration in which women almost exclusively played the leading role. The film tells the sad story of Slovenian women who, due to poverty and the fascist assimilation policy prior to World War II, went to work as wet nurses, nannies, and maids to Alexandria, which at the time was a rich and cosmopolitan city. Their intriguing and sometimes tragic stories show the challenges to which women can sometimes rise at a time when feminism was not even a word.

THE KING
Croatia | DVD, Color, 75’ | Croatian
Director: Dejan Acimovic
The intriguing life story of Darko Kralj (the King), who almost died in 1991 during the war in Croatia, lost a leg, but held on to life and survived thanks to his strength and love of life and is now the only sportsman in history to have beaten a world record five times in a row…

WHO’S THAT CITY?
Bulgaria | DVD, Color, 26’ | Bulgarian
Director: Maria Averina

NEVER BACK HOME
Kosovo | DVD, Color, 56’
Director: Sami Mustafa

A TRUTH, A NOVEL, A FILM
Türkiye | DVD, Color, 44’ | Turkish
Director: Yıldırım Eskici

NOTHING BUT SOUND (SELİM SESLER)
SESSİZ OLMAZ (SELİM SESLER)
Türkiye | DVD, Color, 30’ | Türkçe
Director: Pelin Asal

SILENT BALKANS
Greece | DVD, Color, 27’ | Greek
Director: Andreas Apostolidis