VOICE OF MY FATHER

VOICE OF MY FATHER (BABAMIN SESİ), 2011
Türkiye | DCP, Color, 85' | Turkish, Kurdish
Directors: Orhan Eskiköy, Zeynel Doğan
Cast: Basê Dogan, Zeynel Dogan, Gulizar Dogan

Orhan Eskikoy and Zeynel Dogan return with another inspired-by a real life-story film about Zeynel Dogan’s family. Premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the film chronicles the 30 year history of a Kurdish family. Voice of My Father is about a son who searches for his own voice through the cassette tapes his father sent from abroad. Through the audio archives of a family who had to migrate to Elbistan after the Maras pogroms, the film utilising a mix of documentary and fiction,portrays what had happened between 1979 and 2009.