Where Are You Going Bro?: The Exchange

Where Are You Going Bro?: The Exchange

Where Are You Going Bro?: The Exchange, 2011
Director: Ömer Asan, 59’, Color, Greek and Turkish with English subtitles

The documentary Where Are You Going Bro?: The Exchange is about the human tragedy experienced before and after the 1924 Population Exchange. The film draws attention to the traumas which were created by the Exchange and whose effects still continue: Due to an article in the Treaty of Lausanne concerning population exchange hundreds of thousands of people were suddenly banished from their homes and settled in lands that were completely unknown to them without their consent.

Past Programs
Pera Fest
November 2–24, 2011