Ten-year-old Sevîn wants to make a Kurdish-language television for her bedridden and mute grandmother.
Loosely inspired by Stefan Zweig’s novella, in which playing chess is depicted as a means of surviving fascism, The Avalanche recounts the events of the Armenian genocide, still contested by the Turkish state. Pinar Öğrenci uses archives and present-day footage of the region to uncover the traumas left by the Armenian people on their landscape and their memories.
Yildiz, who lives in a small Black Sea village, tries to learn to read and write with the help of the word cards her brother Fikri secretly brings from school because her family does not send her to school. As the two siblings struggle against the realities of the geography they live in, April 23 Children's Day is approaching.
