Mehmet Atli

Mehmet Atli

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Chaplin of the Mountains 2013 (5)

A recently orphaned young Kurdish-French woman travels to Iraqi Kurdistan to find her mother's village, likely destroyed during the Anfal genocide. On her journey she meets two American film students who are traveling to remote villages screening Charlie Chaplin films. They decide to help her search, an undertaking that brings them to the war-weary Mount Qandil, dubbed by the locals the Kurdish Bermuda Triangle, along the Iraqi-Turkish-Iranian borders.
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Pera Berbangê 2011

This film focused on the life of the people who were obligated to leave their hometown because of the war conditions in the region. Bıskov (button of trousers) earn his life by unchaining the domestic pigeons at the city centre. On the turning way to home, a few young guys call him to come their ruin. The things he experienced in this ruin and the words of his grand mother he heard when he arrive to home takes him to a turnout - the button of Trousers is broken
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Silence 2010

During the civil war in Turkey, many people were assassinated or disappeared while in custody. Mothers and families of the ones who disappeared in custody have held a demonstration every Saturday for the last 15 years. These mothers are called the Saturday mothers. The project tells the story of the encounter between an ex-soldier and a mother who's son disappeared in custody.