The 6th Foça International Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Film Days
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER
(Opening Ceremony and Opening-Night Film Screenings are held at Marseilles Square)
18:00-20:00
- Hard-Hearted
Turkey | 2022 | Dir. Dilek Kaya | 15’, Turkish (English subtitles)
- The World on My Head
Turkey | 2022 | Dir. Yalçın Çifçi | 10', Kurdish (Turkish, English subtitles)
- Ali and His Miracle Sheep
Iraq | 2021 | Dir. Maythem Ridha | 25’, Arabic (Turkish, English subtitles)
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 11:30-13:30 Workshop
'Homo Narrans - Site-Specific Storytelling through Documentary Photography and Film'
(Foça 'Tarih Merkezi')Visiting artists Alexandros Zilos and Ioanna Lykou will introduce their work and invite participants to work on 'Site-Specific Storytelling' projects in Foça.
Alexandros Zilos and Ioanna Lykou are attending Foça Film Days 2023 as Visiting Artists in partnership with the Little Island Festival and through a grant from the European Festival Fund for Emerging Artists. Alex is a professional photographer, videographer and video editor who also holds a BA in Conservation Biology from Plymouth University in the UK. He has worked on a variety of short films, documentaries and multi-media projects that examine socio-political aspects of cultural heritage in interconnection with the environmental landscape. Ioanna Lykou is a theatrologist, director and curator with an MA in Intercultural Theatre from the University of Exeter in the UK. In addition to her activities as a curator and organizer of workshops/residencies, she is a co-founder of the NPO Creative Islands & New Media and she has been the artistic director of the Little Island Festival since 2018.
THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER
FILM SCREENINGS
(Today's screenings are at the Reha Midilli Cultural Centre)
12:00-13:00
- The Shepherds of Gordion
Turkey | 2022 | Dir. Kadir Uluç | 15’, Turkish (English subtitles)
- Memory: Kültepe
Turkey | 2022 | Dir. Zafer Geyikçi | 34', Turkish (English subtitles)
14:00-15:30
- In Front of Their Homes
Turkey | 2022 | Dir. Ertuğrul Karslıoğlu | 60', Turkish (English subtitles) Q&A with the director following the screening
16:00-17:30
- Following Traces of the Ephemeral
Greece | 2022 | Dir. Eirini Chatzikiriakidou | 23', Greek, (Turkish, English subtitles)
- A Musical Tale of Migration
Turkey | 2022 | Dir. F. Neslihan Semirci | 60', Turkish (English subtitles)
18:30-19:15
- Stitch by Stitch
U.S.A. | 2021 | Dir. Rachel Thompson | 6', Spanish (Turkish, English subtitles)
- The Torito, A Freedom Dance
Mexico | 2021 | Dir. Roberto Salazar | 10', Spanish (Turkish, English subtitles)
- Evseyev: Recognition at the cost of life
Russia | 2022 | Dir. Andrew Ogorodnikov | 25', Russian, (Turkish, English subtitles)
20:15-22:15
- Mom, the Turks Are Coming!
Turkey | 2023 | Dir. Hasan Özgen, Kurtuluş Özgen | 75', Turkish (English subtitles) Q&A with the directors following the screening
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 10:30-11:30 Talk
Yalçın Çiftçi: "The World on My Head: Adiyaman Village Women"
(Reha Midilli Kültür Merkezi, Turkish)Yalçın Çiftçi's talk about the significance of the headgear of the women in villages in Adiyaman will include a slide presentation followed by a discussion.
The women documented in his photographs also appear in Çiftçi's film 'World on My Head'. - 17.30 Guided Archaeology Walk
This walking tour led by a local archaeologist will visit different points of archaeological/historical interest within Foça. The tour last about 45 minutes. Meeting point is in front of the Reha Midilli Cultural Centre.
- Exhibit: 'Veysel is Gone, But His Name Lives On'
In conjunction with UNESCO and in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the death of Aşık Veysel (1894-1973), this exhibit from the collection of Nazender Süzer Gökçe and Gürsel Gökçe will be on view at the Reha Midilli Cultural Centre from 4-15 October. The cultural centre opens at 10:00 a.m.
FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER
(Today's screenings are at the Reha Midilli Cultural Centre)
12:30-14:30
- Sheol
France | 2022 | Dir. Arnaud Sauli | 88’, French (Turkish subtitles) Q&A with the director following the screening
14:45-15:45
- Hellenistic Pergamon
Turkey | 2022 | Dir. Serdar Yılmaz | 5', Turkish (English subtitles)
- Echoes of the City of the Dead: The Grand Necropolis of Olisipo
Portugal | 2022 | Dir. Raul Losada | 52', Portugues, (Turkish, English subtitles)
16.00-17.45
- A Few Ordinary Days
Türkey | 2020 | Dir. Pınar Okan| 76', Turkish (English subtitles)
18.00-19.30
- Agreb Majnouna (The Guardians of Margoum)
Tunisia | 2022 | Dir. Akram Moncer | 62', Arabic, (Turkish, English subtitles) Q&A with the director following the screening
20.30-22.30
- Forty Years After Fatma
Turkey | 2023 | Dir. Sezer Ağgez | 85', Turkish (English subtitles) Q&A with the director following the screening
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 11:00-12:15 Talk
Am I Documenting, or Am I Making a Documentary? : A Conversation with Enver Arcak, Ertuğrul Karslıoğlu, Hasan Özgen and Sezer Ağgez
(Reha Midilli Kültür Merkezi, Turkish)Two generations of documentary filmmakers talk about documentary films and documentary filmmaking.
- Exhibit: 'Veysel is Gone, But His Name Lives On'
In conjunction with UNESCO and in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the death of Aşık Veysel (1894-1973), this exhibit from the collection of Nazender Süzer Gökçe and Gürsel Gökçe will be on view at the Reha Midilli Cultural Centre from 4-15 October. The cultural centre opens at 10:00 a.m.
SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER
(Today's screenings are at the Reha Midilli Cultural Centre)
12:30 - 14:30
- Antica Traversa Siculiana via della dia madre
Italy | 2021 | Dir. Francesco Bocchieri | 80', Italian (Turkish, English subtitles)
Q&A with the director following the screening 15:00 - 16:00
- The Golden Girls of Etrim
Turkey| 2022 | Eren Aybars Arpacik | 16’ , Turkish (English subtitles)
- Imitation and Mimesis
Iran | 2022 | Dir. Abbas Khosrogerdi, Manizheh Seraj | 15’ (No dialogue)
- Buddhist Altar
Nepal | 20221 | Dir. Deepak Tolange | 17’ , English, Nepali (Turkish, English Subtitles)
16:30 - 18:30
- The Waterfront
Greece | 2022 | Dir. Angelos Kovotsos | 75’, Greek (Turkish, English subtitles)
Q&A with the director and author/researcher George Polimenos following the screening 19:00 - 20:30
- Nomad
Turkey | 2023 | Dir. Selim Alan | 62’, Kurdish (Turkish, English subtitles)
Q&A with the director following the screening 21:00-22:30
- Ice-Age America
Canada-France | 2023 | Dir. Robin Bicknell | 90’, French (Turkish subtitles)
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 10:30-11:30 Workshop Presentations
Presentations by Visiting Artists Alex Zilos & Ioanna Lykou + Participants in Their Workshop "Documentary Photography and Filmmaking"
(Reha Midilli Kültür Merkezi, Turkish-English)Alexandros Zilos and Ioanna Lykou are attending Foça Film Days 2023 as Visiting Artists in partnership with the Little Island Festival and through a grant from the European Festival Fund for Emerging Artists. Alex is a professional photographer, videographer and video editor who also holds a BA in Conservation Biology from Plymouth University in the UK. He has worked on a variety of short films, documentaries and multi-media projects that examine socio-political aspects of cultural heritage in interconnection with the environmental landscape. Ioanna Lykou is a theatrologist, director and curator with an MA in Intercultural Theatre from the University of Exeter in the UK. In addition to her activities as a curator and organizer of workshops/residencies, she is a co-founder of the NPO Creative Islands & New Media and she has been the artistic director of the Little Island Festival since 2018.
- 17.45 Talk
Izmir's 'Kordonboyu': A post-screening talk with director Angelos Kovotsos and writer-reseracher George Polimenos (Moderator: Ferhat Kentel, BAYETAV)
(Reha Midilli Cultural Centre) - Exhibit: 'Veysel is Gone, But His Name Lives On'
In conjunction with UNESCO and in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the death of Aşık Veysel (1894-1973), this exhibit from the collection of Nazender Süzer Gökçe and Gürsel Gökçe will be on view at the Reha Midilli Cultural Centre from 4-15 October. The cultural centre opens at 10:00 a.m.
SUNDAY 8 OCTOBER
(Today's screenings are at the "Maritime Museum" (Deniz Merkezi)
10:00-10:30 and 15:30-16:00
- Sosandra - A 2,500-Year History
Italy | 2023 | Dir. Lorenzo Scaraggi | 18', Italian (Turkish, English subtitles) Visitors are invited to participate in a workshop on "Recording Oral Histories of The Sea"
10:30 - 11:00 and 15:00-15:30
- Here We Start Painting With Stone
Italy| 2021 | Dir. Massimo D'Alessandro | 28’ , Italian (Turkish, English subtitles) Visitors are invited to participate in a mosaic workshop.
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 10.30-13.30 Workshop
'Recording Oral Histories from Foça: The Sea and Sailing'
Kurtuluş Özgen & Meltem Ulu
(Foça 'Deniz Merkezi')First, participants will get advice about how to record oral histories for film from documentary filmmaker Kurtuluş Özgen and sociologist Meltem Ulu. Next, they will record stories about the sea and sailing from Foça residents.
- 11.30-13.30 Workshop
'Make a Mosaic Mural'
Archaeologist Ertan Aksoy (Foça Municipality) and Tolga Kurut (Atölye Deneme Sanat+Ekoloji Derneği)
(Foça 'Deniz Merkezi')Participants will work together on a mosaic made of small cubes of stone. After the workshop, the mosaic will be permanently installed in Foça near where archaeologists have discovered mosaics from Roman times.
- 17.30 Guided Archaeology Walk
This walking tour led by a local archaeologist will visit different points of archaeological/historical interest within Foça. The tour last about 45 minutes. Meeting point is in front of the Reha Midilli Cultural Centre.
- 14:00-16:00 Workshop (children ages 7-15)
'Heritage Games'
Ece Tuğ & Şebnem Yurdakul of Kentimiz İzmir Derneği
(Foça 'Deniz Merkezi')A fun way to while away a Sunday afternoon. Through a series of games designed by the association Kentimiz İzmir, Ece and Şebnem introduce some features of local heritage and the importance of preservation.
